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Digital Equity in Rural School Districts

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Providing families with used school-issued Chromebooks, adding access points outside the school buildings, and collaborating with community partners on projects such as youth centers and public libraries are providing students and the entire community with access to technology. Even more widespread in school districts are LTE hotspots.

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Effective Technology Professional Learning: Leading and Collaborating to Assure Success

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Moore says that before any rollout of sustainable and effective professional learning, there are four factors that school leaders must consider. Gaddis explained how Wake County focused their professional learning by first identifying three groups: teachers, leadership, and school library media coordinators.

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Funding School Services in the Midst of Multiple Crises

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Gonzales, Nagaraj also recommends a creative focus on partnerships, which can include re-purposing existing ones, such as using PTA funds for social-emotional learning programs that include students, teachers and parents. He also works with edWeb.net to write articles on their professional learning edWebinars.

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Rethinking Professional Learning for Technology Initiatives

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Why should professional learning be a part of every technology initiative? Because of equity, said the three leading superintendents on the edLeader Panel, “ Creating and Leading a Professional Team of Lifelong Learners.” Professional learning should be grounded in the needs of the students.

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eSN Hero Awards Finalists: 10 dedicated educators

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Michelle Kruse, Content Lead for Libraries, Roosevelt Creative Corridor Business Academy, Cedar Rapids Community School District Nominated by: Follett Michelle Kruse is the teacher librarian at Roosevelt Creative Corridor Business Academy (RCCBA), a magnet middle school in the Cedar Rapids Community School District (CRCSD). Dr. Dana T.

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Prioritizing Diversity and Equity in Technology

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Learn more about this edWeb broadcast, “ Addressing Technology’s Diversity and Equity Through District Policies, Practices, and Personnel ,” presented by CoSN and AASA , and sponsored by ClassLink. CoSN (the Consortium for School Networking) is the premier professional association for school system technology leaders.

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It’s Go Time for 2022-23: Superintendents Want to Keep Moving Forward

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But there are also some innovations and opportunities, like virtual professional learning, that they don’t want to forget. Moreover, as students are in different places developmentally, their learning shouldn’t all look the same. Give the whole school community a voice: In-person meetings, Google Forms, surveys, etc.—schools

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