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Student Agency: Moving From Talk to Action

A Principal's Reflections

Image credit: https://andrewherrick.files.wordpress.com If we are to improve learning and ultimately school-based outcomes student agency needs to be a real element of school culture. It is driven by choice, voice, and advocacy. BYOD, 1;1, grading, homework, technology purchases, space renovations, etc.) What would you add?

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Planning for and Sustaining District Technology Innovations

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Sponsored by ClassLink How to balance student outcomes with budgets is a challenge for district leaders. Student Outcomes and Budget Management Making technology central to the teaching and learning mission supports the drive to increase student achievement even as budgets shrink.

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Scaling, Sustaining, and Budgeting for Education Technology Innovations

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As highlighted in the EmpowerED Superintendent Toolkit , there are three essential focus points of smart IT decision making: total cost of ownership (TCO), student outcomes and budgeting management, and the value of the investment. ClassLink is ideal for 1 to1 and BYOD initiatives. Blog post by Eileen Belastock based on this edWebinar.

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Rethinking Professional Learning for Technology Initiatives

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Then, the administrators can help their teachers develop a professional learning pathway that will help achieve improved outcomes for their students. It’s another tool they can use to improve student outcomes. ClassLink is ideal for 1 to1 and BYOD initiatives. The best professional learning coaches are fellow teachers.

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Insights from CoSN Community Leadership Award for Digital Equity Winners

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Every district plan has goals and outcomes, but both districts cautioned that you need to make sure you’re not just talking about test results. She plans to continue impacting students’ lives through advocacy and consultancy. Once leaders could show how the changes worked for this group, they were able to get more staff on board.

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Taking Districts’ Technology Integration to the Next Level

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Due to pandemic-driven increases in school districts’ purchases of devices and software, there’s now a need to develop cohesive systems in which data can be transferred and analyzed quickly and easily in order to improve student outcomes and district operations. ClassLink is ideal for 1 to1 and BYOD initiatives.

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Digital Equity After the Pandemic

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The best way to convince them of the value is to demonstrate how it’s working to improve student outcomes. His passion is harnessing a school culture that thrives on design-thinking skills, innovative digital spaces, high-caliber professional development, exponential thinking, BYOD/1to1, social emotional learning Zen Dens, and makerspaces.

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