eSchool News

JUNE 17, 2021

. — MindSpark Learning ® (MindSpark ), a nonprofit that delivers extraordinary and sustainable learning experiences for educators and professionals, announced today the acquisition of Couragion , a leading provider of STEM career literacy and workforce development solutions. About MindSpark Learning.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Watch the Recording Listen to the Podcast In classrooms and workplaces, the biggest enemy of productivity and safety is distraction. Furthermore, Baird stated, that cell phones in the classroom can even put students at risk of human trafficking and bullying through social media.

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Kecia Ray and Superintendent Jerry Almendarez shared insights into policy and practice during the edLeader Panel “ Get Future Ready with AI: A Roadmap for District Leaders.” Learn more about this edWeb broadcast, Get Future Ready with AI: A Roadmap for District Leaders , sponsored by Writable.

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Tom Murray

JANUARY 12, 2016

From Providence, Rhode Island to Phoenix, Arizona, I’ve had the privilege to travel and work with over 2,300 district leaders from almost 500 school districts over the past year through the Future Ready Initiative. These concerns are real and often become roadblocks for student learning.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Get the right people in the room to start, and consider who will be involved over time This sounds simple, but spending time thinking about the type of team you want involved at the outset of your personalized learning vision-setting is critical. The vision in its day-to-day form? “We We are all learners who deserve PL experiences.”

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2017

Get the right people in the room to start, and consider who will be involved over time This sounds simple, but spending time thinking about the type of team you want involved at the outset of your personalized learning vision-setting is critical. The vision in its day-to-day form? “We We are all learners who deserve PL experiences.”

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How To Personalized Learning Education Elements Differentiated Instruction 74

The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 5, 2022

In the C&I department, Katie supervises a team of 15+ instructional design coaches that serve about 20 school districts, oversees a national coach mentorship program, and also created and oversees Edge•U Badges, an anytime anywhere professional learning program for educators. Thank you for Today’s sponsor Lum.io That's awesome.

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TeacherCast

OCTOBER 16, 2021

How to Create Mission and Vision Statements from Jeffrey Bradbury. To establish Microsoft Teams as a Digital and Professional Learning platform. Establish school and district Professional Learning Communities focused on measuring and improving instructional practice using digital resources.

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Edsurge

MAY 31, 2017

Worse, dictating to students what to learn, when to learn it and how it should be learned leaves them disengaged. Very rarely do students have the opportunity to follow their passions, explore their interests and engage in relevant opportunities that break down traditional classroom silos.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 6, 2019

The learning experience must be redesigned and made personal. Learning spaces must become learner-centered. Professional learning must be relevant, engaging, ongoing, and made personal. Technology must be leveraged and used as an accelerant for student learning. It’s hard to argue with any of these.

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edWeb.net

DECEMBER 3, 2020

The presenters have embraced in their work with teachers the importance of relationships in the classroom to ensure a healthy learning community. Teaching with empathy is the key that unlocks authentic connections with each student to foster their sense of belonging and engagement regardless of their learning environment.

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NeverEndingSearch

JUNE 28, 2018

Connected Learner : Leaders model and promote continuous professional learning for themselves and others. At the first Future Ready Librarian Leadership Summit , ISTE’s Chief Learning Officer Joseph South shared the news of ISTE’s Librarians are Transforming Learning website.

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TeacherCast

OCTOBER 16, 2021

How to Create Mission and Vision Statements from Jeffrey Bradbury What is a Mission Statement? To establish Microsoft Teams as a Digital and Professional Learning platform Establish school and district Professional Learning Communities focused on measuring and improving instructional practice using digital resources.

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Discovery Education

MAY 10, 2022

An editable Studio Board to showcase student creativity and evidence of learning. Minecraft: Education Edition uses game-based learning to prepare students for the future by building future-ready skills like creativity, problem solving, and systems thinking while nurturing a passion for play. Learn More.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

“Don’t call it professional development—call it professional learning.” Professional learning opportunities need to be designed with agency, fidelity, contextual learning, relevancy, sustainability, and iterant. Challenges of Professional Development. ” Jill Abbott Sr.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

From how to delve into the nuances of student learning and removing the heavy lift of teachers trying to figure out how to individualize instruction, to enabling someone like me to speak in seven languages so that I may express ideas or collaborate with others from around the world, AI holds endless potential.

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The Daring Librarian

JULY 20, 2018

Don't Count: Classroom Management 4. Fierce & Future Ready 7. As mentioned above, first year classroom teachers get all kinds of support, slack, and patience while sometimes first year Teacher Librarians have to be “on it” from get go. Classroom teachers, reading that is optional. Admit You're New 2.

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edWeb.net

JULY 9, 2022

.” The panelists engaged in a discussion about how school districts can collaborate with education partners, community partners, and other internal administrators to build a strong and inviting district culture to attract the best talent to join their team. How to Start the Process. Intentional Alignment to Competencies.

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Shake Up Learning

JANUARY 31, 2019

Walk away with a digital toolbox and easy classroom integration ideas. The Learning Mixologist: Shaken and Infused, Never Stirred. What happens when you mix the power of “Shake Up Learning” with the power of the “Infused Classroom?” You get a powerful learning cocktail that will transform your classroom.

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edWeb.net

JUNE 26, 2018

College and career readiness has grown to be a hot topic that is on the mind of every educational leader in the nation. But being college and career ready takes more than just career counseling or use of software in the classroom, it takes personalized, differentiated instruction that starts at an early age.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

For many districts, the days of after-school PowerPoint-driven lectures not differentiated by content, expertise, grade-level or delivery, not to mention daylong workshops on an obsolete topic, have recently given way to face-to-face coaching programs and professional learning communities. Hard questions lead to the right answer.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 20, 2015

“With these new members, we add a wealth of insights, ideas, and energy to help our members effectively support teaching and learning through technology.”. Support research that expands what we know about teaching and learning. Support research that expands what we know about teaching and learning.

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The PL2C Blog

MAY 2, 2018

There is so little professional development available for instructional coaches. Without professional development, educators become stuck in a rut, not knowing what best practices are and how to implement change in their school. I was also named as a Future Ready Instructional Coach Thought Leader.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

From how to delve into the nuances of student learning and removing the heavy lift of teachers trying to figure out how to individualize instruction, to enabling someone like me to speak in seven languages so that I may express ideas or collaborate with others from around the world, AI holds endless potential.

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NeverEndingSearch

JULY 5, 2017

Teacher librarians also show young people how to curate around their own interests and how to create launchpads to manage their information worlds. Facilitates Professional Learning. For professional development : Your school’s PD efforts don’t need to go poof. Curating OER. Leads Beyond the Library.

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edWeb.net

MAY 3, 2017

AASL’s Social Media Superstars program honors school library professionals who enrich the profession and its work on behalf of students by sharing information, expertise, ideas, encouragement, dialog and inspiration using a variety of social media channels. I met Michelle Luhtala at the CoSN Conference in March 2010–seven years ago.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Joining Soumakian were Stuart Burt, chief technology officer for Royse City ISD; Doug Brubaker, an assistant superintendent at Garland ISD; and Tom Murray, a former educator and tech director who now helps coordinate the Future Ready Schools project for the Alliance for Excellent Education. That takes time and money. Talk to teachers.

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Shake Up Learning

APRIL 28, 2017

The post How to Cultivate Communication Skills in the Classroom appeared first on Shake Up Learning. Cultivating a culture of communication in the classroom creates a foundation for building the other, ‘C’s:’ collaboration, creativity, and critical thinking. But what does this look like in the classroom?

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 3, 2017

So we did, through Future Ready Schools and my teams at the Alliance for Excellent Education , we partnered with Dr. Linda Darling Hammond , one of the top known researchers in the world when it comes to education and what works, and our team at Stanford University, to dive into the topic of what is it that actually works.

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Tom Murray

MARCH 15, 2016

What is it that your district wants teaching and learning to look like in your classrooms five years from now? How will teaching and learning shift with the availability of these devices? How will the devices fit your desired assessment methods? Personalize Professional Learning. Redesign the Space.

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edWeb.net

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Its tagline is “Discover your future,” reflecting its vision of being future ready. It’s about increasing postsecondary readiness, persistence, and completion, regardless of a student’s direction. Students build working apps for Apple’s mobile devices using professionals’ coding language and tools.

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edWeb.net

MAY 19, 2020

Already, many teachers don’t have the skills to integrate tech into the classroom—even the young ones. While they may be proficient in using edtech, they don’t know how to create comprehensive lessons to use it in the classroom. She was selected to participate in the Future Ready Superintendent Briefing with the U.S.

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edWeb.net

OCTOBER 2, 2019

South Park Elementary Center decided what better way to support teachers on how to do be creative and innovative in classrooms than with personalized, creative, and innovative professional development. The post How a Principal Uses edWeb to Personalize PD appeared first on edWeb. Join the Community.

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edWeb.net

JUNE 4, 2019

Using CoSN’s blueprint for smart IT decisions as a guideline, the three superintendents explained how to align priorities, and balance choice with cost and outcomes to creative sustainable programs. She was selected to participate in the Future Ready Superintendent Briefing with the U.S. Join the Community.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Link cybersecurity to curricula – Encourage students to become responsible digital citizens who learn how to behave and communicate safely online. Education has always been a passion of his, prior to information security, as he worked with a non-profit to promote effective technology in the classrooms. Join the Community.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 19, 2024

If we want to utilize generative AI as a tool to help our students, we need to ensure that we provide ALL of them with the tools and time to learn how to harness its abilities. The common thread through all of the pathways is students harnessing technology to share their voices past the four walls of the classroom.

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Neo LMS

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

How to know which is which? They can be educators who are directly involved in the process of knowledge transfer in a classroom, administrators of any kind of educational institution, policymakers, business people, activists, researchers, bloggers, and so on. Edtech is always changing. Edtech trends come and go. Jennie Magiera.

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