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How to effectively train your teachers and faculty on utilizing a digital learning platform to its fullest

Hapara

To get the maximum out of any digital learning platform your school uses, your operators need to be well-trained and skilled. K-12 teachers, tutors and faculty can’t be trained on edtech like machine operators in a shop. Managing edtech tools isn’t and was never intended to be their main gig.

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Model What You Preach: Pedagogy at the Heart of Professional Learning

A Principal's Reflections

I was still a high school principal and not a trained speaker and presenter. Thus, I basically just shared what my teachers and students were doing at New Milford High School (NJ) and the evidence that showed how our implementations of innovative ideas were improving student outcomes as well as teaching, learning, and leadership practices.

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How to ensure edtech ROI? Ask these 4 questions

eSchool News

Maybe some of these challenges sound familiar, whether you’re a district, a school, a curriculum leader or an instructional coach, a digital learning specialist, or a librarian. Who are your district’s building-based edtech coordinators? Edtech information is then not limited to one school but shared throughout the system.

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Four Questions Education Leaders are Asking to Find the Best Edtech

Digital Promise

After a year of fast-paced, high-pressure decision making, you’re now called on to figure out which edtech products will support your learners and educators. Should you continue to use the products you implemented before the rush to distance learning? Which learning goals might edtech support? How is this tool different?

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What's Really Getting in the Way of Teachers Embracing Edtech?

Edsurge

a math teacher and instructional coach at Brashier Middle College Charter High School in Simpsonville, South Carolina, has more than two decades of experience and spends a lot of time thinking about edtech. Amy Ballard, Ph.D., I need to reiterate with my teachers that the tech tool itself isn't the be all, end all,” Ballard said.

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Why It’s ‘Imperative’ That Edtech Providers Prove Their Products Work

Edsurge

At a time when more than 11,000 edtech tools are on the market and schools are embracing learning technology like never before , there is a stunning lack of research and evidence to support the efficacy of those products. The natural starting point for edtech providers, instead, is pursuing ESSA Level IV certification.

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Why experts say now is the time to assess your district’s edtech use

eSchool News

Key points: Very soon, districts must closely examine the edtech they use and compare it with budget realities How to ensure edtech ROI? Whether it’s a free resource or an edtech product, there’s still some kind of criteria” that needs to be met. And Union County is far from alone. And Union County is far from alone.

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