A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 1, 2019

My post doesn’t just refer to just sites like Teachers Pay Teachers, but also a wide range of materials from a variety of sources. To assist with the vetting process, I suggest you take a look at the Digital Instructional Materials: Acquisitions Policies for States site from SETDA.

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Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2020

The Learning Policy Institute calculates the cost of distance learning at about $500 per student for a total of $3.7 Here are five existing policies that policymakers and local officials are likely to lean on to ensure that funds are used effectively, with regard to investments in remote learning programs and services.

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Edsurge

APRIL 3, 2019

In fall 2007, Larry Berger, CEO of Wireless Generation (now Amplify) was invited to submit a paper to an “Entrepreneurship in Education” working group led by Rick Hess, the director of Education Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute. I’d recently moved to Washington, D.C. and he asked me to co-author the piece.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 13, 2015

Free tool is intended to support clear understanding of state policies and practices related to digital instructional materials. state and territorial educational technology leaders, has launched of a free online tool to support the implementation of digital instructional materials.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Create high-quality curriculum and assessments for English learners in STEM Curriculum developers, teachers and researchers should work together to develop instructional materials and resources that take into account the range of English learners’ needs.

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Doug Levin

FEBRUARY 21, 2016

Buoyed by examples of new and significant commitments to OER by companies large and small, governments of all levels, and schools, it is easy to see that the future of instructional materials over the next decade will look very different than it has over the last decade. This is good news and cause for celebration.

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edWeb.net

AUGUST 13, 2019

Recent publications and projects include Navigating the Digital Shift, Digital Instructional Materials Acquisition Policies for States, OER Case Studies: Implementation in Action, The Broadband Imperative and From Data to Information. Christine’s background includes experience in education and consulting.

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Neo LMS

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Blended classes greatly benefit from BYOD scenarios because most of the class instructional materials are on the cloud and all students need to do is to sync them on their devices. But now, schools must enforce policies on social media use during and beyond class hours. Sounds easy.

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ExcelinEd

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Policy Changes Practice. ExcelinEd’s approach to education equity and policy includes cultivating policy conditions to advance student-centered education systems, state by state. In 2019, ExcelinEd engaged in 25 states to develop, adopt, implement, or improve Early Literacy policies.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 8, 2015

Educators stress the importance of state leadership, transparency for purchasing digital instructional materials. A new report urges care when purchasing digital instructional materials, and notes that factors such as interoperability, accessibility, and device access should be considered during the process.

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Iterating Toward Openness

MARCH 21, 2023

For example, politicians understand costs much better than they understand learning, which makes policy work and other political advocacy around eliminating textbook costs far easier than advocating for ways that “open” (whatever that word means) might be leveraged to improve student outcomes.

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Edsurge

MARCH 16, 2020

Often, these pitches entail free or discounted software for products ranging from instructional materials to virtual conferencing tools. Among them are companies directly reaching out to teachers and administrators, offering to help ease that transition. Amen to that.”

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Marketplace K-12

OCTOBER 10, 2017

The State Educational Technology Directors Association profiles four states' policies for acquiring digital instructional materials. The post As Demand for Digital Materials Rises, States Adjust Policies appeared first on Market Brief.

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eSchool News

JULY 12, 2024

Despite these advancements, 33 percent of educators remain dissatisfied with the current level of AI implementation, citing insufficient training, exposure, and lack of clear policies or guidelines. Schools should continue to prioritize effective AI implementation to fully realize its potential to enhance educational outcomes.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Alabama passed a comprehensive early literacy policy in 2019. Kymyona Burk is the policy director for early education at ExcelinEd and a board member of The Reading League. At the end of the day, all children deserve a chance to learn to read, and all teachers can learn to teach them.

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Doug Levin

JULY 7, 2016

Note: The original version of this piece was published on July 7, 2016 by New America as part of an EdCentral series on the next social contract for education: https://www.newamerica.org/education-policy/edcentral/next-social-contract-public-education-needs-new-terms-service/.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Only 21 states have any kind of dedicated state funding for technology, and this can range from just digital instructional materials (e.g. State Funding States vary drastically in the funds they make available for K-12 technology. software and electronic textbooks, as is the case in New Mexico ) to physical devices (e.g.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 3, 2023

It is time to take a hard look at the policies that keep our diverse students from learning from teachers who look like them. My district’s seniority-based layoff policy resulted in my being given a termination notice two years into my teaching career. Districts not making layoffs need to do more to recruit and hire teachers of color.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2024

The students ask about many topics, including tardy policies, access to athletics and clubs, and even treatment by deans and security. Here are a few ways we can do this: Improve instructional materials. She is a 2023-24 Teach Plus Colorado Policy Fellow.

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SETDA Says

AUGUST 20, 2019

In July, SETDA released the K12 Instructional Materials Dashboard. The dashboard currently includes state reviewed, full course, secondary level instructional materials for English/Language Arts and math from 13 states. The materials included were reviewed via independent state […].

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 16, 2020

When technology is truly reimagining the task at hand, then we say that it is leading to redefinition —a totally new and different way of interacting with instructional material, building understanding or demonstrating mastery. Most of the examples that appear in the section below fall into this category.

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eSchool News

MARCH 21, 2023

Helping one of the world’s largest book publishers create inclusive learning and teaching materials is one way we can do this.” It also includes instructional materials and digital resources to help teachers build literacy skills and social-emotional awareness.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

While district policies can provide opportunities for improving student achievement, our results suggest that this impact varies widely and requires strong school-level leadership and effort. Once all students have access to strong core instruction, educators can customize instruction for those with specific needs.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 23, 2016

As publishers continue their work to improve the instructional materials being used in classrooms, elected officials and policymakers at every level nationwide must increase their efforts to get high-quality digital content and educational technologies into the hands of teachers and students.

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MIND Research Institute

DECEMBER 8, 2020

MIND Research Institute is a proud partner of the State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA) and the Education Commission of the States (ECS) – two of the most prominent and important venues for edtech policy discussion. Hundreds of state commissioners and edtech policy leaders joined the ECS Live!

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Edsurge

APRIL 5, 2019

If you bucket all instructional materials—core plus a broad view of “supplemental”—you have an estimated $6 billion instructional materials market. Tackling the $6 billion instructional materials market almost always requires displacing a product, program or service already in use. billion or so.

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Doug Levin

MAY 6, 2017

Yet, Apple did not enforce its own policies when it found that Uber flagrantly violated them in ways decidedly hostile to users on its App Store. Which brings us full circle to Google and this phishing attack.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Now, a new resource from SETDA offers a look at different state-level procurement models to demonstrate how various states have implemented policies and procedures to procure digital resources, instructional materials and devices. Next page: Procedures from 4 states highlighted in the report).

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User Generated Education

JULY 1, 2018

Program leaders and instructors remain predominantly male, and a language analysis of recruiting and instruction materials revealed evidence of implicit bias. We understand that inequity, racial and otherwise, is the result of cumulative disadvantage built into social institutions, via law, policy, and everyday practice.

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Tom Murray

JUNE 3, 2016

With support from ED, state leaders, and new platforms for curation and discovery, there has never been a more exciting time to rethink traditional, static instructional materials. As with any instructional materials, quality is key. Determining policies, processes, and timelines for adoption.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

From California to Connecticut , legislation is being written and revised to specifically tie attendance to learners’ documented interaction with instructional material. A binary data capture system that fails to incorporate measures of engagement and participation no longer suffices to characterize a student’s presence at school.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2023

But there’s also been a debate over whether the state’s policy to hold weak readers back in third grade has been a bigger driver of the test score gains than the instructional changes. How to drive research to inform practice within schools and within classrooms is the central problem we face in education policy,” said Dee.

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Edsurge

MARCH 16, 2023

One recommendation from “Where Teachers Thrive” is ensuring that schools provide teachers with appropriate curricula and materials, rather than expecting teachers to devise or find their own. That’s echoed in the Texas report, which cites studies showing that teachers report spending hours a week searching for instructional materials.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 22, 2020

As long as students, parents and teachers are baffled, these tools will continue to fall short of their capacity to improve and personalize instruction. There are a lot of digital materials out there that may not be well-aligned with curricula,” she said.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Other provisions of the agreement he and other critics objected to was that instructional materials created by Purdue Global faculty members would be owned by the university.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 23, 2024

Superintendents must not be hamstrung by local rules preventing them from, for example, screening new teachers for math knowledge or insisting that teachers use evidence-based instructional materials. Update old policies to meet new challenges.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 23, 2016

As publishers continue their work to improve the instructional materials being used in classrooms, elected officials and policymakers at every level nationwide must increase their efforts to get high-quality digital content and educational technologies into the hands of teachers and students.

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