edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Watch the Recording Listen to the Podcast Educators know that getting students engaged is a real challenge. Engagement is down across America, with less than half of high school students feeling engaged. The answer is student voice. So what is the key to fixing this?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

State requirements are starting to address this by requiring online virtual meetings between teacher and student. After a weekly one-hour session, students feel closer to classmates and often add them to their ongoing PLN (Professional Learning Network). ” Ignore Innocent Mistakes. Simplify Tech Skills.

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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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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Social-emotional learning (#2). Student engagement (#3). More and more schools across the country are thinking beyond academic initiatives, working to broaden the definition of success to ensure all students are healthy, safe, and engaged in their learning.

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 7, 2014

Our goal is the purposeful integration of technology to support or enhance learning. We not only want students engaged, but also want to see evidence of learning aligned to high standards as well as the development and application of essential skill sets. Please share in the comments section.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 25, 2019

Leveraging Professional Learning Communities to Discover Impactful Tech. Although the edtech discovery process looks different for everyone, the quest should always be driven by the same question: What will this allow my students to do that otherwise would not be possible? A newer, shinier tool or program is introduced.

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Digital Promise

MAY 23, 2019

DuBois Academy—all started strong out of the gate in their first year as Verizon Innovative Learning schools. Strong coaching quickly built capacity among teachers, and by leveraging their devices in various ways, these schools had the highest student achievement growth in the county on their MAP assessment.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Across the country, educators are demanding opportunities to personalize their professional learning. Research suggests the traditional professional learning methods—typically one-size-fits-all and top-down—don’t meet the needs of today’s educators or their students.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 7, 2022

I have worked with ISTE in a number of other service and professional learning roles and currently am serving as one of ISTE’s Community Leaders. I already can tell that I’m going to learn a lot from the other members of my cohort. My students tell me that they appreciate my efforts in this area. Related Posts.

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Social Media Professional Learning Data Course 294

The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 15, 2020

So, in order to prepare for the inevitable blended learning for this fall, the first professional development goal for all of us should be to make sure we have mastered blended learning. This approach will take learning to a new level in your classroom. See the course 10.

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Hapara

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Student engagement was the main driver to teaching the learning outcomes, and Heather helped educators do this with technology. Read on to learn how to use technology in the classroom to truly engage students. When students completed a project, they created a summative piece tied to the curriculum.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

In this VFT, participants will travel virtually to Japan with Katie Ledecky to meet and interact with Panasonic STEM specialists who are exploring innovative ways of living and working today and in the future. Educators can discover more Immersive Learning solutions from Discovery Education here.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 29, 2020

As educators across the country work tirelessly to provide engaging lessons in new and ever-changing environments, there are still understandable concerns about low student engagement, low teacher morale , and a lack of professional development to meet teacher and students’ needs.

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Waterford

JULY 12, 2023

Use Expert-Led Communication Strategies to Engage the Families in Your District Check out Waterford’s on-demand webinars , including “ Driving Impactful Family Engagement with CARES ,” and learn how you can build a school environment that values families and advises teachers as they connect and collaborate with families.

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eSchool News

MARCH 30, 2023

This renewed collaboration ensures students and teachers in the district’s K-5 classrooms will continue to use the company’s award-winning Mystery Science service to drive deeper student engagement in science instruction. AMSD’s diverse student population is approximately 63% Anglo, 22% Hispanic, and 13% Native American.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 5, 2019

Challenge Based Learning (CBL) is a type of project-based learning distinguished by its insistence that students engage with, investigate , and act on authentic and motivating challenges. It’s exciting to see students do some of the driving.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 27, 2019

School districts should communicate their needs and give candid feedback to developers; at the same time, edtech developers need to meet the needs of diverse learners and educators to improve learning outcomes. Engage with stakeholders to identify and communicate context-specific needs. Here’s how we use it.

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eSchool News

APRIL 23, 2025

Studios (Grades 6-12) This Virtual Field Trip (VFT) introduces students to the exciting world of storytelling with The Superpower of Story at DC Comics Headquarters. Students will get a behind-the-scenes look at how comics and films come to life with insight from industry creators.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 7, 2011

Teachers now meet as part of three overreaching groups that include Humanities, S.T.E.M., Implemented Professional Learning Communities (PLC''s) as our means of professional development entirely focused on improving student achievement. and Special Programs (special education, arts, and technology).

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Analysis Course Strategy Conference 224

Edsurge

JULY 26, 2021

As Executive Director of Instructional Technology at Plano ISD in Texas, he often slips into his district’s sea of digital usage data to understand student engagement, direct budget planning, find power users and more. IMS Global Learning Consortium. Take student engagement, for example. Matt Frey is a data guy.

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Tools Data Trends Meeting 197

Edsurge

JUNE 10, 2024

Innovative STEM programming requires a willingness to adopt emerging tools and technologies, as well as methodologies like project-based learning. Level Up Los Angeles represents an inclusive, districtwide initiative aimed at integrating esports into educational contexts, utilizing platforms that support collaborative and creative learning.

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Hapara

MARCH 18, 2025

Improved student engagement Classroom technology allows students to learn how they want to learn, piquing their curiosity, boosting motivation and supporting deeper comprehension. Differentiation and personalization Not all students learn at the same pace or in the same way.

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Edsurge

JULY 26, 2021

It is time to expand the “learning loss” discussion to respond to both the widespread demand for SEL and service learning, as well as the disparities in their implementation. So how do we meet this critical moment in education, close the implementation gap for SEL and service learning, and prepare our students’ for lifelong success?

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Learning Professional Learning Survey Report 218

A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 11, 2011

Consider meeting with your administrative team and teacher leaders prior to the start of the school year to identify issues where excuses routinely arise. Engage your staff in a brainstorming session during the first faculty meeting in order to develop a collective vision on how to transform the school for the betterment of all students.

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Digital Citizenship Personal Learning Network Strategy Meeting 242

EdNews Daily

MAY 29, 2017

Parallel statistics on teacher job satisfaction, down nearly 25%, daily stress, up around 50%, and the majority of learning coming from colleagues on the job (Harvard Report), tells us the 68 hours/year and 18k/teacher for PD is lacking. Professional Learning (skills, knowledge, theory). Behavioral Health (wellness).

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eSchool News

JANUARY 31, 2025

For 2025, schools and districts are focused on making learning more engaging for students, creating a more positive environment for educators, and transforming school culture to meet the diverse needs of the school community.

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ET Magazine

APRIL 23, 2025

Studios (Grades 6-12) This Virtual Field Trip (VFT) introduces students to the exciting world of storytelling with The Superpower of Story at DC Comics Headquarters. Students will get a behind-the-scenes look at how comics and films come to life with insight from industry creators.

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Graphite Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

As we regain some sense of normalcy, many teachers report that students are struggling to get engaged in learning. From screen-time habits to social and emotional issues, many students are struggling. For more on this, check out the article 5 Online Discussion Tools to Fuel Student Engagement.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 10, 2020

They needed to find ways to reach their students, engage them, motivate them and connect with them in ways that built on the lessons they had learned from the first few months of the pandemic. It was important to get them all on the same page around digital learning before starting a new school year.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Across New Hampshire, school leaders are searching for strategies to ensure that their edtech investments are being leveraged to pay dividends on student engagement, acceleration of learning, and saving teachers’ time. These resources can be shared and tweaked to support all learners and tailored to meet specific learning goals.

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EdTech How To Student Data Privacy Professional Learning 127

Hapara

MARCH 17, 2022

Meeting a learner’s reading needs. At 11:30 during lunch, Mrs. Perkins, the fifth-grade teacher, checks her email and notices a message from a student’s parent. The parent is worried that his son is falling behind in science, that the textbook provided is difficult to understand and isn’t meeting his needs. .

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 27, 2019

, crowdsourced learning and resource production. Day 3 – student agency and deeper learning, with a strong emphasis on project- and inquiry-based learning; school models that foster deeper learning and student engagement; innovation leaders across the state presented what they’re doing in a PBL showcase.

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edWeb.net

OCTOBER 24, 2024

When individual teachers come to the STEM facilitator for help, the facilitator can guide and direct them, which provides each teacher with individualized professional development. Learn more about this edWeb broadcast, Critical Factors for STEM Program Sustainability , sponsored by SmartLab.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2024

As part of this program at Morris County Vocational School, in New Jersey, where I teach, students engage in research about key issues at our school and learn how to plan effective professional development to support the staff.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Part of the role of an instructional leader is looking at the data of your school—including attendance and assessments—and making informed decisions to ensure that teachers are meeting the needs of students. See HMH’s Blended Professional Learning research results here.

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Data Elementary Classroom Professional Learning 213

Edsurge

AUGUST 10, 2021

At the Institute for Teaching and Leading , a professional learning organization that I co-founded, many of our partner districts are focused less on deficits and more on active learning, which we call the asset-based mindset. Focus on gatekeeper standards. Move to a competency-based focus.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 24, 2017

Blended learning is an instructional methodology that combines face to face and online learning to personalize the learning experience to meet the specific needs of each student. Provide professional learning that allows participants to experience blended learning. Evaluate the impact.

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