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Instructionally Useful Assessments for Ambitious Teaching

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Watch the Recording Listen to the Podcast Educators want assessments to be instructionally useful and provide data they can use to help students learn, but not all assessments do that. The better an educator understands their student, the better they can teach that student. So, what is instructional usefulness?

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Toward a Conceptual Framework for a Quality, Learning-Focused 1to1 Initiative

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In order to create a high performing, learning-focused 1to1 initiative, this is where to move the needle: Leadership skilled at building a high level of buy-in with educators, students and parents/community. Technology in support of learning. Metrics primarily focused on Learning-centered outcomes (e.g.

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Leadership Coaching and How Students and Teachers Benefit

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Out of this body of work, we developed a theory of change for digital transformation to support and guide our work with educators on the frontlines of technology-supported innovation. Establishing Goals and Program Evaluation. Personalized Professional Learning. Leadership and Organizational Design.

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Three Ways That Rural States Can Become the Hotbeds for School Edtech Innovation

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Technology has been a key component in the planting, fertilization, growth and eventually, the blossoming of new statewide initiatives including distance education and new professional learning opportunities for educators that have benefitted students in a variety of ways. 2016 Wyoming Google Summit.

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MTSS: Where to Begin?

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Inventory your current programs. Create a matrix of what programs and supports you already have, which populations they support, and who is leading the programs. Evaluate the efficacy of current programs. Instead, look at the three tiers of MTSS. Find out what’s working, what isn’t, and where you have gaps.

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Good News from Our Nation’s Capital

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The district is in the middle of a digital equity revolution, being led by a particularly sharp Director of Education Technology and Library Programs, Dewayne McClary. When McClary joined the district as the manager of educational technology in 2014, progress was less than stellar. And in fact, just three years earlier D.C.

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Michigan School Administrators’ Journey Toward Increased Equity and Inclusion

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Work on developing culturally proficient communities during the previous decade has now led to the creation of a professional learning program designed to increase equity and inclusion during the 2020s, in collaboration with the Michigan Association of Superintendents & Administrators. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING.