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Instructionally Useful Assessments for Ambitious Teaching

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While they are not necessarily instructionally useful, they are useful for program evaluation. So while teachers cannot use their data for instructional purposes, others within the education system can use their data for evaluative and monitoring purposes. Not all assessments are designed to inform instruction.

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Toward a Conceptual Framework for a Quality, Learning-Focused 1to1 Initiative

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Managing Change: Knowing how to define success and if “it” is working (smart use of data for planning, formative feedback, and program evaluation). Deliberately and proactively defining success (more in terms of learning than of technology). Metrics primarily focused on Learning-centered outcomes (e.g.

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Leadership Coaching and How Students and Teachers Benefit

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Establishing Goals and Program Evaluation. Personalized Professional Learning. Leadership and Organizational Design. Messaging and Effective Communication. Budget and Resources. Technology Infrastructure. Digital Curriculum and Assessment. Data Use and Security. Family and Community Engagement.

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Three Ways That Rural States Can Become the Hotbeds for School Edtech Innovation

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Technology has been a key component in the planting, fertilization, growth and eventually, the blossoming of new statewide initiatives including distance education and new professional learning opportunities for educators that have benefitted students in a variety of ways. Wyoming Switchboard Network homepage.

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MTSS: Where to Begin?

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Inventory your current programs. Create a matrix of what programs and supports you already have, which populations they support, and who is leading the programs. Evaluate the efficacy of current programs. Instead, look at the three tiers of MTSS. Find out what’s working, what isn’t, and where you have gaps.

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Good News from Our Nation’s Capital

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limited data collection, limited program evaluation?, limited fidelity to models, limited professional development?, Differentiated, collaborative professional learning blends content, pedagogy, and technology to help teachers refine and develop effective teaching practices.?. no implementation support?,

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Michigan School Administrators’ Journey Toward Increased Equity and Inclusion

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Work on developing culturally proficient communities during the previous decade has now led to the creation of a professional learning program designed to increase equity and inclusion during the 2020s, in collaboration with the Michigan Association of Superintendents & Administrators. The Path Forward. About the Presenters.