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Just Announced: FREE Future Ready Schools Institutes

Tom Murray

As many readers of my blog know, I serve as the Director of Innovation for Future Ready Schools® , a project of the Alliance for Excellent Education , located in Washington, D.C. All for the kids we serve, Director of Innovation, Future Ready Schools. What’s great about these events? November 29-30: Detroit, MI.

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5 edtech tools that take personalized learning to the next level

eSchool News

An effective way to tackle the challenge of teaching core academics to all students across ability levels is to implement a personalized approach supported by a variety of carefully chosen digital resources. In our first year, we implemented personalized learning in our six middle schools. Intentional design.

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If we’re not irrelevant, what are we?

Dangerously Irrelevant

But we rarely foster ‘future ready’ policies, instructional and leadership practices, or school organizational redesigns. utilize digital technologies in academic- and work-productive ways that go far beyond social uses or mere replication of analog instructional practices. We talk a lot against federal and state policy.

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Teachers Can Transform Education if We Reinvent Professional Learning

EdNews Daily

First, as schools adjust to the seismic shifts in society at large, increasingly teachers must demonstrate skills in inquiry, project-based learning, design thinking and supporting personalized learning through coaching and mentoring. Think ecosystems, not workshops. This is highly disruptive to the system.

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7 Questions Principals Should Ask When Hiring Future-Ready Teachers

MindShift

“They’re told go to this workshop. Increasingly, teachers are earning micro-credentials , participating in Twitter chats, finding other educators to learn from in personalized learning networks , attending math circles and generally widening their network of influencers.

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Vote for Digital Promise in the 2019 SXSW EDU PanelPicker!

Digital Promise

By equipping teachers with the skills and tools needed to understand which tools work best, in which context, and for whom, classrooms will move closer to truly personalizing learning and fulfilling the promise of technology to close persistent achievement gaps. What happens in a Future Ready Library?

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Future Ready update adds new resources and PD for leaders

eSchool News

Future Ready overhaul coincides with the new national ed-tech plan. Last Thursday, The United States Department of Education held an event at the White House unveiling the 2016 National Education Technology Plan and celebrating the one-year anniversary of the Future Ready initiative.