Digital Promise

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Students model how professional product teams work together to create prototypes for authentic users. Below, Melissa shares advice for how teachers can facilitate these kinds of powerful collaborative learning experiences with their students. Preparation sets up students for success.

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techlearning

MAY 9, 2018

-Discovery Education’s Math Techbook and Professional Learning Services to Strengthen Efforts to Create Dynamic Digital Classrooms – Silver Spring, Md. In the Fall of 2017, Edmond Public Schools began implementing their new Digital Conversion Strategy district wide.

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Shake Up Learning

JULY 5, 2022

Together they discuss how inclusive learning is meeting the needs of all learners. Mike shares tips and strategies to help teachers shake up inclusive learning in their classrooms. Fighting Exclusion: Shake Up Inclusive Learning. Every student brings their own unique learning needs to the classroom.

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edWeb.net

JULY 19, 2022

From developing lesson plans, to performing administrative functions, to implementing creative strategies to spark student engagement and collaboration, today’s classroom teacher juggles more responsibility than ever and does so in less time than ever. Hybrid Learning and Flipped Classrooms.

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edWeb.net

DECEMBER 8, 2022

But truly, educational technology must be accessible to all students and should supplement, not replace, the teacher in the classroom. When done well, this technology can address learning gaps and help teachers to diagnose students’ gaps in learning. Watch the Recording Listen to the Podcast. Join the Community.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 3, 2017

Their collaborative learning is powered by the video evidence of their own classrooms. During an instructional coaching cycle, teachers can use any device to easily record, upload and share videos of their classroom practices with their peers or coaches. What device should teachers use?

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

To provide the best possible teaching and learning environment, school leaders need to provide their teachers with professional learning opportunities that are personalized and engaging. edWeb.net is a free professional learning network that hosts special interest communities on innovative topics in education.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

As an integral part of learning today, educators and students deserve new and improved ways to display and interact with classroom content, but to be successful, these tools need to be flexible and user-friendly. Historically there has been a limit to seamless integration across various technology solutions within today’s classrooms.

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

The strategy is on target, according to the Harris Poll findings: 95% of educators and 93% of parents believe that student confidence in STEAM subjects can increase through hands-on projects. Nash and Kent offered strategies that promote authentic thinking and creativity. They can help learners navigate the stickiness of complexity.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 23, 2018

This professional learning event includes thought-provoking practitioner and expert panelists, inspiring ignite talks, and hands-on roundtable discussions that will provide practical tools, strategies, and ideas that you can immediately implement in your school, district, or organization.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

As an integral part of learning today, educators and students deserve new and improved ways to display and interact with classroom content, but to be successful, these tools need to be flexible and user-friendly. Historically there has been a limit to seamless integration across various technology solutions within today’s classrooms.

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The PL2C Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

This collaborative practice is based on the medical model or rounds. Although schools and districts will initiate learning walks in various ways, several strategies are critical to gain buy-in : In this case, Alamance Burlington committed all it’s leadership to experience a full day of learning walks spanning schools across their district.

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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

wwwatanabe

JUNE 26, 2012

As we wrap up our second year of Collaboration Coaching , we celebrate the success we''ve had with collaboration, learning with colleagues, and creating 21st century, student-centered classrooms. What is a Collaboration Coach? We''ve adapted it to fit our district''s needs.

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MindShift

OCTOBER 30, 2017

At the British International School of Shanghai, Hopkin and Soloway are trying to create an experience among the staff that helps teachers notice their own teaching moves as they happen in the classroom. You as the teacher are still the expert with responsibility and control for your professional experience.”

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Educator Innovator

MAY 12, 2014

TeachDoNow is a free, collaborative learning experience offered by KQED this summer in partnership with Educator Innovator and the National Writing Project. Schedule: Week 1: July 7 — What are the best strategies for accessing professional learning online? By Matt Williams, Educational Technologist, KQED.

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NeverEndingSearch

JULY 5, 2017

The professionals we spoke with described a process in which they began by collecting or gathering; moved to connecting content and resources for specific purposes and audiences; curated by adding value with context and commentary; and contributed by offering the community opportunities for collaboration, learning and growth.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 25, 2014

History Survey Course: Free, Collaborative, and Self-Paced Professional Development - Craig J.

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Reading By Example

MAY 2, 2016

I am using the headings from Regie Routman’s Change Process Worksheet/Appendix A, from her essential resource Read, Write, Lead: Breakthrough Strategies for Schoolwide Literacy Success , as a guide for organizing and describing our school’s planning process. Our school has implemented what I call a collaborative learning cycle.

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Reading By Example

MAY 2, 2016

I am using the headings from Regie Routman’s Change Process Worksheet/Appendix A, from her essential resource Read, Write, Lead: Breakthrough Strategies for Schoolwide Literacy Success , as a guide for organizing and describing our school’s planning process. Our school has implemented what I call a collaborative learning cycle.

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Student Engagement Collaborative Learning Meeting Assessment 28

Reading By Example

MAY 3, 2016

The headings I use to organize my thinking come from Appendix A of Regie Routman’s excellent resource Read, Write, Lead: Breakthrough Strategies for Schoolwide Literacy Success (ASCD, 2014). Instead of scheduling a 1/3 of my staff for announced supervision times, I now pop into any classroom unannounced on a daily basis.

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Reading By Example

MAY 3, 2016

The headings I use to organize my thinking come from Appendix A of Regie Routman’s excellent resource Read, Write, Lead: Breakthrough Strategies for Schoolwide Literacy Success (ASCD, 2014). Instead of scheduling a 1/3 of my staff for announced supervision times, I now pop into any classroom unannounced on a daily basis.

Student Engagement 28

Student Engagement Assessment Survey STEM 28

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

Dayhana Sanchez Cuevas “This is a very interesting way for people all around the world to participate in real time to develop ideas, strategies, perspectives, methods and direction in any aspect of education. Cynthia “Such a gift to learning and sharing!" Anonymous “Fantastic way to conference without leaving the classroom." -R.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 11, 2019

I get a lot of questions from readers about what tech ed resources I use in my classroom so I’m going to take a few days this summer to review them with you. Tech coaching/mentoring is available from experts who work with you via email or virtual meetings to prepare lesson plans, teach to standards, integrate tech into core classroom time.

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Edsurge

JUNE 28, 2016

As part of our research on what PD should look like , we found that both teachers and administrators value the same things in professional development—and it’s not sitting and getting. In a nutshell, they want professional learning opportunities that are: Relevant. Teachers value learning most when it comes from other teachers.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Video emerged as a crucial, game-changing tool in this adaptation, enabling K-12 teachers to provide students with the best possible learning environments despite the crisis. With teachers and students returning to the classroom, video technology tops the list of tools that will continue to bolster instruction and learning.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 1, 2018

Today we discuss current research that is shaking up how people think about learning. This week I’ll be sharing the 7 Pedagogical Shifts That Make Interactive Displays a Key to a Student-Centered Classroom on the Cool Cat Teacher blog sponsored by SMART Technologies. Shift #1 is that Students are collaborators. Listen Now.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2017

Teacher candidates will use personal classroom videos uploaded to the platform to self-reflect on pedagogy, classroom management, and interactions with students; they’ll also share videos with peers and receive feedback from one another. By Kathy Schrock, Wilkes University. The trend I witnessed blossoming in 2016 was the makerspace.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JULY 30, 2012

and shows an amazing level of support by the DOE for the role of online communities and social learning networks--networks like Classroom 2.0 that are "helping hundreds of thousands of educators learn, reducing isolation and providing ''just in time'' access to knowledge and opportunities for collaboration."

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

MCP Instructional Learning Experience Designer and Mindfulness Educator Global Information Literacy Panel , Steve Hargadon, Co-Chair, Global Education Conference Global Outlook - STEAM up the STEM skills for Global Collaboration , Kavita Sanghvi, Principal, C.N.M. Messiah College | Chesla Ann Lenkaitis, Ph.D., Dr. Beate W.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 14, 2014

Training in the supporting skills and techniques is rare in teacher education and in the preparation of faculty, museum, and library professionals. Learn more and register for this free event here. Saturday, October 18th at 12pm CR20 LIVE Weekly Show: Twitter Chats with Alice Keeler , Join Classroom 2.0 Fall Read-Aloud Ideas.

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