Digital Promise

JANUARY 13, 2021

When suddenly propelled into distance learning last spring, educators rose to the challenge to meet the needs of students and families. Even in schools outside of the Verizon Innovative Learning network, coaches reported that they were valued more by teachers and administrators than prior to the pandemic.

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Technology LMS Professional Learning Advocacy 277

A Principal's Reflections

MAY 10, 2020

Below I will address these through a new lens from which we can begin to transform teaching, learning, and leadership in a post-COVID19 world. Student engagement, learning, and outcomes : How will learning change in ways that better meet the needs of all learners? Digital amplifies this process.

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Education Professional Learning Personal Learning Network Outcomes 510

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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STEM UDL Learning Outcomes 124

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 113

A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

For example, I really appreciate Michael Ford pushing me in this direction when he asked me to create a choice board as part of a professional learning date with his staff. In Digital Leadership , I outline how a multi-faceted approach that meets stakeholders where they are is the most effective way.

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Strategy Professional Learning Survey Conference 545

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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Examples Conference Survey Strategy 250

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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Facebook Strategy Groups Professional Learning 358

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

eSchool News

OCTOBER 2, 2024

VC3 features new coaching tools that empower teachers and instructional coaches to collaborate more efficiently, gain deeper insights into instructional practice, and engage in more meaningful professional learning. To learn more about VC3, visit [link].

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 9, 2019

Let’s look at these Pillars and ways that we can lead in the now: Student engagement, learning, and outcomes : We cannot expect to see increases in achievement if students are not learning. Students who are not engaged are not likely to be learning. Engagement is not a silver bullet, though.

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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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Professional Learning Personalized Learning Student Engagement Meeting 190

Catlin Tucker

APRIL 11, 2021

Much of that time has been focused on how to teach in online or blended learning environments. That was important work necessary to meet the short-term demands of the pandemic. Some schools struggled to embrace the flexibility and affordances of online learning and instead attempted to replicate the traditional school day online.

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Education Blended Learning System Meeting 545

Edthena

MAY 29, 2024

During the Colorado Association of School Executives’ Winter meeting, David discussed the district’s challenges, his experience deploying Edthena’s AI Coach platform to improve teacher performance, and why he’s now an advocate for AI in education. Vrain is doing what would have been considered unrealistic just a few years ago.

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Professional Learning Advocacy Strategy Outcomes 110

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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STEM Panasonic Resources Education 83

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 185

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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Survey Education Data Trends 276

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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Learning STEM Professional Learning iPad 275

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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Online Learning Social Media Learning LMS 319

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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Examples Conference Survey Strategy 130

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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EdTech Tools Professional Learning Facebook 315

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

TeachThought - Learn better.

JULY 18, 2024

by Terry Heick My wife is a schoolteacher, and recently I’ve been listening to her online meetings. Mindnumbing-ness My wife has had 8-10 of these meetings since late last week—faculty trainings where she’s being trained on things she needs trained on and then faculty meetings to discuss the schedule for upcoming trainings.

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Strategy Training Flipped Classroom Data 105

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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Education Industry Secondary Training 187

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

To meet the varied needs of its unique student population and to drive deeper engagement in the sciences across all grades, Rivermont schools sought a suite of digital, classroom-tested, science services. Dedicated professional learning helps school systems recognize the full return on their edtech investment.

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Education Schoology EdTech Social Media 81

edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Mortimore added that technology needs to meet several criteria: it needs to be designed by and for learners and educators, comfortable and intuitive, built around learners’ behaviors, universally adaptable where possible, and able to handle school environments. Next, they discussed tech-enabled environments that don’t meet student needs.

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Learning Digital Citizenship Social Media Meeting 123

edWeb.net

MAY 19, 2022

During the edLeader Panel, “ Learn How to Unlock Personalized Learning and Student Engagement with Video Editing ,” the presenters explained what they look for in video software, how they use it, and why. First, any video software must meet two criteria: easy to use and lots of flexibility.

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Hapara

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Language translating and learning platforms can support students in their assignments while enhancing their learning. Interactive and visual media can also help to keep students engaged, and ease their way into learning activities. This allows her to spend more time face to face with individual learners.

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Strategy Technology Classroom Accessibility 144

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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Elementary EdTech Personal Learning Network Secondary 275

eSchool News

AUGUST 10, 2023

Connecting educators to a vast collection of high-quality, standards-aligned content, ready-to-use digital lessons, intuitive quiz and activity creation tools, and professional learning resources, Discovery Education Experience provides an enhanced learning platform that facilitates engaging instruction in any environment. These

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EdTech Schoology Social Media STEM 84

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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STEM Common Core Company Training 64

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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edWeb.net

JUNE 4, 2021

Technology is about more than student engagement. In a recent Project Tomorrow survey, students said they value educational technology more for the ability to create personalized learning than for the interactivity. Professional learning needs are changing too. Free trials are like getting a free puppy.

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Professional Learning Industry Survey Student Engagement 98

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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Blended Learning Social Media Differentiated Instruction Learning 420

edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

This has led to solutions in cybersecurity, school system transformation models, student-led teacher professional development, diverse workforce recruitment and retention, and student engagement in secondary writing.

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Policies Secondary Professional Learning Student Engagement 111

eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2024

Connecting educators to a vast collection of high-quality, standards-aligned content, ready-to-use digital lessons, intuitive quiz and activity creation tools, and professional learning resources, Discovery Education Experience provides an enhanced learning platform that facilitates engaging instruction in any environment. These

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EdTech STEM Schoology Social Media 52

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

This exciting new content nurtures student curiosity and supports educators’ efforts to engage all learners more deeply in instruction.  These resources, sourced from trusted partners, are aligned to state and national standards, and help educators bring the outside world into teaching and learning every day. 

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Resources Schoology Social Media EdTech 56

eSchool News

MAY 19, 2023

Located in Southeastern Georgia, Glynn County Schools’ dedicated staff of more than 3,600 professionals serves more than 12,000 students in 21 schools. Then, students participate in easy to prepare hands-on labs that use simple science supplies commonly found in classrooms or at home.

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Classroom Social Media EdTech Assessment 91