Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2017

In the course of adapting many of our curricular resources to fit teachers’ changing needs, we have distilled a robust collection of skills into lessons we believe will help teachers foster social-emotional learning, and in doing so develop future-ready students. Are your students future ready? said no teacher ever.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Passive learning, on the other hand, means students passively receive information–for example, students might use a Chromebook to take a test or submit assignments in a learning management system. Active learning with technology involves the use of edtech tools and digital resources to discover, analyze, and apply learning.

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eSchool News

MAY 13, 2021

Yet quite often, calling on history can help us make more informed decisions about the present. As I reflected on the structure of this article, my archived files got some exercise as I reflected on the origins of Future Ready Librarians ® and why the journey we took to create the program has never been more important than today.

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 29, 2017

This information is completed and archived in the Professional Learning Portal (PLP), a free digital platform developed by ICLE to support schools in data collection, reflection and goal setting, to grow and improve. As a Future Ready Schools coalition partner , ICLE can scale services to support a district's digital transformation.

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eSchool News

JUNE 20, 2018

That pioneering work led to Future Ready Librarians , an extension of the national Future Ready Schools initiative at the Alliance for Excellent Education. Despite seeing glasses as half-full, I will acknowledge that not all school librarians are Future Ready.

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A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 23, 2014

Begin to strategically utilize an array of free social media tools such as Twitter and Facebook to communicate important information (student honors, staff accomplishments, meetings, emergency information) to stakeholders in real-time. Consistency aligned with intent is key.

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

While connected devices are an important part of modern learning environments, audiovisual equipment and even classroom furniture are also essential to creating spaces that are conducive to teaching that focuses on future-ready skills. A modern learning environment requires more than just investments in physical assets.

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eSchool News

JUNE 28, 2016

New project highlights critical role school librarians play in supporting Future Ready goals. Future Ready Schools (FRS), led by the Alliance for Excellent Education (the Alliance) in partnership with the U.S. Future Ready librarians embrace change and innovation in education,” said Ray. “As

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eSchool News

MAY 9, 2022

CHICAGO – Parents and educators agree that a key goal of K-12 education is to ensure that students are “future-ready”—with the knowledge, skills, and drive to navigate their careers and lives. Access the full report: Educating Future-Ready Students: Bridging Social and Emotional Learning and Career and Workforce Development.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JUNE 5, 2020

I especially appreciated hearing about the challenges that exist even when you’ve been a nationally-recognized 1:1 school district for years, how you’re highlighting teacher voices in district messaging to students and families, and the emphasis on trauma-informed practices as the system opens up again next year.

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Tom Murray

SEPTEMBER 9, 2017

Future Ready Schools ® Invites You to a Participate in a Webinar. Tom Murray , Director of Innovation, Future Ready Schools ® , Alliance for Excellent Education. More here: (Note: The webinar will be archived on the same URL after the event.). Amplify: Digital Teaching and Learning in the K–6 Classroom.

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Education has shifted dramatically in recent decades — from an emphasis on fact memorization through “drill and kill” and “sage on the stage” teaching styles to a focus on higher-order thinking and future-ready skills such as critical thinking and problem solving. It’s important that kids be allowed to do the same. Content Subtype.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

APRIL 17, 2018

A ‘grand challenge’ for building-level leaders might be a leadership issue such as: turning around a low-achieving school; repairing a dysfunctional school staff culture; preparing future-ready graduates; meeting the needs of students with unique needs (including ELL/ESL, special education, gifted, transitory; etc.);

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 10, 2018

Leaders from many organizations, such as Future Ready Schools , talk about how schools can enable anywhere, anytime learning. However, school administrators, and even IT staff, are sometimes reluctant to trust the cloud to secure sensitive information , such as student records and payroll data.

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 25, 2015

Portions of this post are adapted from the Future Ready Schools website with permission. The evolution of the Internet allows anyone with access the ability to communicate, collaborate, acquire information, and learn with anyone, at anytime, and from anywhere. Digital Leadership and Future Ready Recently the U.S.

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 22, 2017

How do we implement and support rigorous and relevant learning tasks that help students become Future Ready? We can look to the past in order to inform current practice. If efficacy is the goal, embracing a scholarly mindset to inform and influence our work, not drive it, is critical. Again, this is just part of the job.

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Neo LMS

APRIL 19, 2022

What matters the most is to equip students with future-ready skills to become well-rounded adults ready to thrive in their lives and careers. This change proves highly effective, especially for Higher Ed students who might have already acquired certain skills on the job or through informal learning.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Our AI deep dive resulted in the development of three guiding principles: high standards and expectations, future ready skills, and cultural proficiency. The three guiding principles have become the foundation which underpins all AI professional development, communication, and future planning.

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techlearning

JUNE 27, 2018

Today, Future Ready Schools (FRS)—led by the Alliance for Excellent Education (All4Ed)—announced Future Ready Technology Leaders™ (FRS Tech Leaders)—the latest expansion of the FRS initiative—aimed at empowering school and district technology leaders to better connect their practices, policies, and procedures to educational innovation in schools.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 24, 2024

These insights empower students to make informed decisions about their educational and career journeys while supporting the district’s vision of fostering a future-ready workforce.

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MindSpark

APRIL 6, 2023

In this blog, we'll explore why drones are essential for students to learn and how they can help develop future readiness skills. Students can use drones to conduct aerial surveys of local parks or neighborhoods, providing valuable information to city planners and community organizations.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 28, 2019

Other key players include Gena Keller , Acting Deputy Superintendent for the Virginia Department of Education, and Ted Dintersmith , who once again is lending his generous support to building leadership capacity for future-ready learning, teaching, and schooling in yet another state. The adventure continues! Related Posts.

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Neo LMS

MARCH 28, 2019

Furthermore, there are learning apps such as these that enhance the students learning experience and equip them with future-ready skills they need to apply for jobs of the future. As students ask more questions, seeks new information, finds answers and facts, their habit of exploratory learning develops.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 3, 2017

For information on the guests and items mentioned in this show, scroll down to the bottom of this post. *. Tom serves as the Director of Innovation for Future Ready Schools, a project of the Alliance for Excellent Education, located in Washington, DC. Listen Now. Listen on iTunes. Listen to the show on iTunes or Stitcher.

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EdTech Magazine

MAY 19, 2020

But cloud computing also has the potential to help school leaders make smarter decisions about instruction, operations and business continuity and to create future-ready schools, said Kenneth Thompson, chief information technology officer for San Antonio (Texas) Independent School District, at the Consortium for School Networking’s 2020 virtual conference (..)

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 29, 2017

This is one of the principles championed by Future Ready Schools (FRS), a project of the policy and advocacy organization, Alliance for Excellent Education. FRS helps district leaders plan and implement personalized, research-based digital learning strategies to help all students achieve their full potential.

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Tom Murray

MAY 16, 2016

According to Future Ready partner Data Quality Campaign , there are currently over 100 privacy-related bills in 32 state legislatures. As student data privacy debates continue at all levels, districts must clearly communicate the data they’re collecting, how it’s being used, and how student information remains secure.

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Tom Murray

MAY 23, 2018

It’s imperative to remember that such information is highly-sensitive and confidential, and thus calling down all students who are on free and reduced lunch would be an awful and immoral decision. Districts must remain sensitive to the needs of the families when sharing out this information and understand the legalities of such lists.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 5, 2024

This information will then be reviewed at the initial meeting for reflection and goal-setting to grow and improve. This 18-question rubric asks school leaders to reflect on their perceptions of where their school falls, from needing to start to well-developed. The IPA doesn’t just look at innovation.

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MIND Research Institute

AUGUST 21, 2024

First, their brains learn really well through the active process of the struggle—and pretty badly from passively trying to absorb a mound of unconnected information—but secondly, to quote the late Physicist Richard Feynman, we remove the "joy of figuring things out." Creativity: The capacity to think outside the box and innovate.

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Neo LMS

MAY 24, 2022

Acquire future-ready skills that will help them in their careers. . Virtual communication is a future-ready skill. You can easily add members to a group within seconds and get at-a-glance information about each group’s active members and how many students have joined. . It is efficient, interactive, and engaging.

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 16, 2018

So, when leaders at Chula Vista Elementary School District took a Future Ready Schools assessment to see if they were prepared to support 21st-century learning, Lincoln said they found a disparity between the IT department and the classroom. All of a sudden, they went from supporting devices to supporting assessment,” said Lincoln.

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Neo LMS

MARCH 1, 2022

Develop the ability to plan for future goals. Be more successful in the future, in any career path. Read more: Methods and tools to develop future-ready skills. This concept refers to learners’ confidence in finding the information they’re interested in via the web. Self-evaluate based on competency.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 7, 2017

I mentioned that I didn’t think that most schools were yet producing ‘future ready’ graduates. If we raised the bar up to preparation for true life readiness, wouldn’t most schools do pretty poorly on the four shifts noted above? A few weeks ago we were talking about school ‘accountability’ in one of my classes. Related Posts.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 11, 2018

Kathleen: No, not everyone is doing something different in the classroom, but the learner’s actually having some choice in what they do and how they access information. Well, here’s what they represent: Access means how a learner would access and process information. It’s really based on the neurosciences and how we learn.

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edWeb.net

DECEMBER 27, 2016

Librarians are at the forefront of helping schools become “future ready.” The Alliance for Excellent Education (the Alliance) launched its Future Ready Schools (FRS) initiative in October 2014 with the aim of leveraging technology and connectivity to personalize and transform learning. Department of Education.

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NeverEndingSearch

JULY 18, 2017

There are some new Future Ready Frameworks in town as well. You likely already know about Future Ready Schools and the Future Ready Pledge. And, you are likely already very familiar with the Future Ready Librarians framework released last year.

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