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Teacher Development Research Review: Keys to Educator Success

Digital Promise

Job Embedded Professional Development. Professional Learning Communities. A safe and cooperative climate for learning. Support and training to promote continual professional learning. Data to track and promote collaborative inquiry and practices that improve student learning.

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US Edtech Investments Peak Again With $1.45 Billion Raised in 2018

Edsurge

Companies whose products serve preschool and professional learning sectors also raised $350 million (represented as the “Other” category in the graph below). Source: EdSurge Higher Education & Post-Secondary Post-secondary tools altogether saw a notable bump in funding. Investment Trends Breaking down the $1.45

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Leading the Digital Transformation in Rural Districts During Crisis and Beyond

edWeb.net

Her previous experiences include being a classroom business teacher at the high school and post-secondary levels, assistant director of a vocational cooperative, principal at East Noble High School, and assistant superintendent at East Noble School Corporation. Ann earned her bachelors, masters, and Ed.S. Join the Community.

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Developing Systems for Effective, Equitable Education for All Students

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Kids don’t have time to wait, so school leaders need to make professional learning a high priority. Anderson’s staff have access to a variety of resources, including a video series where teachers model lessons with students and professional development courses using webinars and other tools that teachers will use with their students.

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Five Compelling Reasons For Teaching Spatial Reasoning To Young Children

MindShift

Currently, many countries are concerned by the low numbers of post-secondary students, particularly female students, entering these disciplines. The National Research Council (2006) has highlighted this as a “major blind spot” in education and calls on educators and researchers to pay attention to spatial reasoning. Catherine D.

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Planning for the Total Cost of Edtech Initiatives

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Her previous experiences include being a classroom business teacher at the high school and post-secondary levels, assistant director of a vocational cooperative, principal at East Noble High School, and assistant superintendent at East Noble School Corporation. Ann earned her bachelors, masters, and Ed.S. Join the Community.

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Thursday Interview: The Personalized High School

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Prior to joining ESR, Wolk served as a program associate with The Education Alliance at Brown University where she served on the core work group with the National Association of Secondary School Principals to write Breaking Ranks II: Strategies for Leading High School Reform (NASSP 2004), and Breaking Ranks in the Middle (NASSP 2007).