A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

One of the best parts about job-embedded, on-going work with school districts is facilitating a variety of professional learning opportunities. Recently the district asked me to be a part of their professional development day, which consisted of seven different learning strands specific to the needs and interests of their teachers.

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 28, 2024

Collaboration is a cornerstone of effective educational improvement, especially when it comes to making the shift to personalized learning. Nicki Slaugh and I shared the following in Personalize : Teamwork is the essence of academic triumph. This can increase job satisfaction, reduce burnout, and greater resilience.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 14, 2022

A personal learning network is a group of people you connect with to learn from through their ideas, questions, backgrounds, and references. The post 10 Reasons Every Teacher Needs A Professional Learning Network appeared first on TeachThought.

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 22, 2020

In my book, Balance with Blended Learning , I invite teachers to reimagine teaching and learning by partnering with students. This partnership gives teachers more time and energy to innovate and personalize learning while providing students with the opportunity to actively drive their own growth.

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 10, 2022

An equitable learning culture at the district and school level can only be created through the development of policies, procedures, and vision that result in systems geared toward supporting the uniqueness of all learners. There also must be ongoing professional learning for teachers, coaches, administrators, and other related staff.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 21, 2020

Personalization Personalized learning represents a movement from the “what” to the “who” as a means to facilitate student ownership of the learning process. A hybrid model accounts for this fact, and its success relies on budgeting, existing space redesign, and professional learning support.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 30, 2019

When it is all said and done, the best experiences are ongoing and job-embedded so that the needed support, application into practice, feedback, and accountability for growth lead to actual changes to teaching, learning, and leadership. So, what does meaningful professional learning look like?

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Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

We discuss how the design of classrooms can shift the focus from consumption to creation, how the school schedule can be used flexibly to give students more agency in identifying what they need and when, and how grouping students by needs and skills instead of by age can provide them with a more personalized learning experience.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

To that end, we chatted with HP Teaching Fellows Rola Tibshiran i, Vicky Masson , Joseph Filipic , Jim Pedrech and Chad Sorrells about how critical professional learning networks (PLNs) have been to both their craft and their well-being. Here, they share four essential recommendations for creating a strong PLN.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2021

The profiles are part of the school’s embrace of personalized learning, which centers on the belief that a teacher lecturing at the front of a classroom is a bad fit for today’s students. Personalized learning has, in recent years, become one of the most talked-about trends in education.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 11, 2019

Teachers may give assessments before each unit or standard, which sorts students into three groups: high, middle, low. . Every time a teacher switches units or standards, they should reassess, and students may change groups throughout the year depending on that data. Personalized Learning Is the Ultimate Goal.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 5, 2023

During the spring of 2022, I met Nicki Slaugh , who serves as principal, and many of her staff at a school system where we were all there to facilitate professional learning on Personalized Competency-Based Learning (PCBL). A standout example of this is Quest Academy Junior High School in Utah.

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 13, 2020

Move to pedagogically-sound blended learning and provide a mix of tech and non-tech options. self-paced activities) when appropriate and provide individual or small group support to those learners who need the most help. Seek out or ask for professional learning support on remote and hybrid pedagogy.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 5, 2022

All of them, I’ve found well-suited to the task of scaling and differentiating tech skills for age groups, scaffolding learning year-to-year, taking into account the perspectives and norms of all stakeholders, with appropriate metrics to know learning is organic and granular. Group enrollment. Group enrollment.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 23, 2021

These can be taught individually (through coaching or mentoring), in small groups (of at least five), as school PD, or through select colleges for grad school credit. They start at $750 for a group of five or more. Classmates will become the core of your ongoing Personal Learning Network. The Tech-infused Teacher.

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Edsurge

MAY 28, 2017

In response to these challenges, the NYCDOE launched WeTeachNYC in September 2015, an online professional learning space for teachers and school leaders.WeTeachNYC was designed based on three core understandings: Educators benefit from having a centralized space where resources and opportunities are easily discoverable.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 16, 2021

16, 2021) – Lexia® Learning, a Cambium Learning® Group company, announced today that all schools throughout Alabama can now boost literacy instruction via LETRS® (Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling) professional learning. About Cambium Learning Group. BOSTON (Aug.

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 7, 2014

So I did what I have been doing for the past five years and that was submit a query to my Personal Learning Network (PLN) using Twitter and Google+. Within minutes I received new recommendations and I took a few minutes to learn how to use each new tool. I had a few in my toolbox, but needed more.

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Edsurge

JUNE 4, 2018

The idea of using a learning management system (LMS) to deliver professional learning and development to K-12 educators is not new—but it’s not quite mainstream, either. The organization has been providing LMS-based professional learning for the state’s educators since 2004. “We Hint: Think AI.)

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EdNews Daily

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

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. Replacing workshops with small group coaching is a great step forward.

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Edsurge

MAY 26, 2017

In response to these challenges, the NYCDOE launched WeTeachNYC in September 2015, an online professional learning space for teachers and school leaders.WeTeachNYC was designed based on three core understandings: Educators benefit from having a centralized space where resources and opportunities are easily discoverable.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

As Director of Professional Learning Systems for Tennessee’s Department of Education, I have the privilege of being able to witness teachers get excited to learn a skill they not only need to learn, but want to learn, and in the way best suited for their unique learning style.

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Edsurge

JUNE 29, 2016

Speaking on panel at the PBS Digital Innovators event, Brown talked up the rise of the online spaces for collaboration, also known as personal learning networks (PLN) as enabling anyone, even those who in remote areas or who feel more introverted, to come together to collaborate and share ideas.

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Class Tech Integrate

JUNE 20, 2018

The most important/impactful professional learning I have ever participated in was developing my own Personal Learning Network (PLN) through Twitter. and how on earth are you doing professional learning with Twitter? Step 1: #Hashtags Find hashtags that apply to what you want to learn about.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 17, 2019

The ACT Network schools share their solutions not only across the network, but nationally at two Forging Innovation in Rural Education (FIRE) Summits and on KVEC’s place-based learning platform, The Holler. Micro-credentials provide personalized professional development opportunities aligned to theory of action plans.

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edWeb.net

APRIL 6, 2021

Since the administrators could be blinded by their specific needs and areas of focus, they brought in a diverse group that could address everything the community needs. Analytics in Action is a free professional learning community on edWeb.net for school technology leaders, superintendents, curriculum and instructional leaders.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 31, 2023

BOSTON – Clark County School District (CCSD) in Nevada, has made Lexia LETRS ® (Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling) professional learning programs available to most elementary schools in the district with a plan to continue expanding the program to additional elementary and early childhood teachers and administrators.

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A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 30, 2014

From my point of view educators become quickly attached to one specific social media tool as their go to source for his/her Personal Learning Network (PLN). Now anyone who knows me knows that I absolutely love Twitter as a professional learning and networking tool. Take Twitter for example.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Kimberly Sheppard is a personalized learning coach for Henry County Schools in Georgia. In that capacity, she is participating—along with eighty or so of her Henry County colleagues—in the Assessment for Learning micro-credential project , led by the Center for Collaborative Education (CCE).

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EdTech Magazine

JULY 31, 2018

Professional Development Is the Foundation You Knead. Professional learning is the crust of your technology program. Some school districts spend millions of dollars on technology , then have no money left over for much-needed professional learning. I speak with many teachers and I often hear about their No.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 15, 2020

Course: Implementing Culturally Responsive Teaching Strategies “In this course, you will explore the importance of culture; how it impacts thinking, learning, and behavior; and how to embrace cultural differences and become a culturally responsive teacher.” See the course 10.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 8, 2018

In many districts, teachers are provided the same professional development regardless of their subject area, grade level, or personal goals. Although completing a micro-credential is autonomous work by definition, I continually feel connected to a group of learners throughout the process.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2017

LearnLaunch Institute , the Massachusetts Personalized Learning Edtech Consortium (MAPLE) functions as a professional learning community for 32 district members that aim to implement personalized learning. You can personalize learning just fine without technology. But it can help.

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Tom Murray

MAY 14, 2017

School leaders begin to make their plans for the summer months; from professional learning days to administrative PLCs. Both groups also look forward to some needed downtime and finally the opportunity to relax with a good book. Book: How to Personalize Learning. It’s that time of year again.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

The Rhode Island EdCluster (EduvateRI) convened diverse stakeholders to write a white paper that helped set the state’s vision on personalized learning. In New Jersey, Northern Ignite is building powerful professional learning opportunities for administrators and teachers to visit with one another and share best practices.

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

It’s about working around the perimeter of your room and asking, “Do the walls in my classroom really maximize learning or do they distract from learning?” As you think about personalized learning, you really must ask your students every other week, “How is this classroom serving you? How is it distracting you?”

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Edthena

AUGUST 13, 2021

On this episode of the Teaching Leading Learning K-12 Podcast, Edthena founder and CEO Adam Geller talked with Steve Miletto talked about all things professional learning, including how video is changing the game for giving educators feedback about their teaching. We know this is important, but we can’t get to it yet.

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