A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 26, 2020

With little to no training or preparation, they have stepped up to keep learning going. A recent eSchool News article highlighted that most teachers don’t feel fully prepared for remote learning. Like teachers, they are working crazy hours to help keep learning going. It hasn’t been easy for them to say the least.

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

How many of us were initially trained doesn’t carry as much weight in a world where information is readily at our fingertips. Then, attend and implement strategies gleaned from professional learning. You can also leverage professional learning communities (PLCs), personal learning networks (PLNs), or other growth opportunities.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2024

At its core, personalized learning is about recognizing that no two students learn exactly the same way. It moves beyond the one-size-fits-all approach by focusing on each student’s strengths, needs and learning pace. In April 2019, we began our journey to personalize learning.

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Digital Promise

MAY 10, 2021

Should you expand the use of new tools that educators found to meet immediate learning needs? Are there new tools to consider that address your communities’ new and evolving needs as you move to hybrid and in-person learning? Which learning goals might edtech support? Does the product allow for differentiation?

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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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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 7, 2024

In sum, effective pedagogical leadership empowers educators and creates an environment that maximizes student learning and achievement. The Framework for Pedagogical Leadership and our personalized approach to Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) serve to build capacity in this area.

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 19, 2020

It goes without saying that our teachers have done an incredible job when it comes to adapting to a remote learning world. With little to no training, they are finding ways to make it work for their kids while overcoming a myriad of challenges in the process. Realistic and Fair Grading I will admit that I am on the fence with this one.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 11, 2019

This teacher also mines data at the individual student level to help students become active owners of their learning process. . All of that requires teacher training and significant preparation for the students. Personalized Learning Is the Ultimate Goal. Let us know how you fare on this journey. by Brian Seymour.

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 21, 2017

It’s heartbreaking to watch teachers actively choose not to engage in professional development, especially since my #1 goal as a trainer is to engage them. My trainings are hands-on and practice-based, which makes it even more obvious when a teacher is choosing not to engage.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 18, 2020

Remote, on the other hand, focuses on both digital and non-digital pathways to keep realistic learning going. I must emphasize the need to be realistic as this rests on the mere fact that most teachers have never been adequately trained in this area. Use playlists and choice boards. Thanks @E_Sheninger !

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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. Train teachers for the future, not the past. This is highly disruptive to the system.

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 22, 2013

Quality professional development rests in the ability of the organization to not only meet their needs, but also that of its constituents. The trainings that many educators are now forced to attend are usually driven by whatever the federal and state governments have mandated. Will this help my students learn and achieve?

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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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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 7, 2014

The goal was simple, to introduce and train them on some age appropriate technology tools while identifying natural pedagogical fits. 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+. I had a few in my toolbox, but needed more.

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 11, 2021

Some schools struggled to embrace the flexibility and affordances of online learning and instead attempted to replicate the traditional school day online. Others did not have the infrastructure, devices, or professional learning necessary to navigate this sudden shift online. Learning happens in classrooms.

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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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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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eSchool News

APRIL 26, 2024

According to a recent report , the majority of teachers agree that the future of education will include AI, but most teachers do not feel confident using AI tools and 80 percent of teachers want AI-specific professional development resources. “Google wants to ensure every educator can take advantage of the opportunities created by AI.

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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. Layer Digital Training Resources for Extra Support .

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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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Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 16, 2020

Magical thinking that teachers can operate simultaneously in face-to-face, online, hybrid, and/or hyflex modalities all year, even with scant training on how to do so. Magical thinking that the decisions that we make this summer about in-person instruction are going to somehow hold for an entire school year. And so on… .

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Neo LMS

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Educators can’t know it all and do it all by magic; they also need to learn. Depending on how large your organisation is, gather all teachers, or at least some representatives, and ask them what they think their training needs are. Diversifying your methods of training will only respond to more learning needs of teachers.

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edWeb.net

APRIL 6, 2021

What skills and training do businesses want from the next generation of workers? Away from the classroom, she has served as an independent math consultant, worked in curriculum development, evaluated research on school-based programs, and developed professional learning opportunities for educators looking for a new mastery of technology.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 9, 2021

City University of New York has developed robust professional learning experiences for educators, such as integrating computational thinking into the coursework and field experience of teacher education programs. Integrating computational thinking into every classroom is not something that can be left to individual educators.

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The Web20Classroom

JULY 5, 2010

This is a video I will definitely be using in upcoming trainings and talks. Also, last Spring I got several other members of my PLN to give me the reason why their PLN is important to them and why they find theirs valuable to their professional learning. Check it out. So those are just a few examples of why a PLN.

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eSchool News

JULY 7, 2020

With this purchase, Infobase empowers educators with the professional development and training resources they need to create college- and career-ready students. Digital Technologies Transform Learning. The coronavirus pandemic forced educators into new methods of teaching, and students into new learning environments.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

The Lifelong Learning Report: Trends & Insights from K-12 to Career is a comprehensive study analyzing the evolving landscape of education and the role technology plays in shaping the future of learning.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 25, 2017

This hands-on, authentic process re-establishes learners as active contributors of their learning environment by providing true agency through the connection of interest with impact. With very little first-hand experience with personalized learning, many teachers and education administrators have difficulty fathoming its power.

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Edsurge

MAY 27, 2020

All four scenarios laid out in the New America guide are predicated on the idea that distance learning will, in some way, be folded into every school’s plans for the coming year. Also underpinning these various scenarios is the critical need for professional learning and development over the summer.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 21, 2018

The Dynamic Learning Project , a national program led by Digital Promise and supported by Google, aims to provide training to educators at low-income schools to help them learn how to use technology effectively. Work side-by-side with teachers in classrooms, using technology for Teaching to meet learning goals.

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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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eSchool News

DECEMBER 6, 2024

LLMs can personalize learning, reduce teachers administrative burdens, and make more adaptive and insightful assessments. Rather, teachers most-cited reason for not using AI more in their classroom is that they have not received enough training to use it effectively. Teachers are already under so much scrutiny and pressure.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Teachers should be empowered with actionable data, equipped to engage each student with a personalized learning experience and supported as they establish stronger relationships with home-based learning guardians such as parents. In short, it’s time to more intentionally think about educators as Learning Engineers.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 24, 2017

Prompted by district administrators’ desire to find ways to build student agency, engage student passion and personalize learning, we hoped blended learning would shake up the status quo and spark large scale change. Provide professional learning that allows participants to experience blended learning.

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Digital Promise

JULY 12, 2018

In a colorful space adjacent to where teachers receive regular professional development training, Rowan-Salisbury Schools has created an Educators’ Playground of edtech where teachers can tinker and test new products. Learn more: ISTE Feature. Professional learning is embedded, protected, valued, and seen as ongoing.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2017

And a two-year-old professional development program called LEAP (for “LEarning together to Advance our Practice”) is being linked to greater achievement among students. Instead of a handful of professional development days each year, D.C. teachers get a weekly cycle of professional learning. That was true in D.C.’s

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Many school districts used the summer to regroup, to train their staff and to get a plan for the fall—first on how to reopen, and then on how to respond should the situation change, for better or worse. She continues: “The feeling right now I hear from staff members is that digital learning is not in-person learning.

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