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Pillars of Digital Leadership Series: Professional Growth

A Principal's Reflections

It will illustrate them in action through the work of practitioners and provide implementation strategies. However, the mounting pressure from ridiculous mandates as a result of the current education reform movement and massive budget cuts across the country, have made it a challenge to learn through traditional pathways.

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What Constitutes Good PD?

A Principal's Reflections

It is an opportunity to become better at what we do as well as gain knowledge on new pedagogical techniques, learning theories, leadership strategies, technologies, and federal/state mandates. Educators now have to attend mandate-driven workshops on the Common Core, teacher/principal evaluation, and student growth objectives.

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Roadmap to a Job-Embedded Growth Model

A Principal's Reflections

Undeterred, I continued to talk about the concept of a Personal Learning Network (PLN) and what it had done for my professional growth. Think of it as a differentiated learning opportunity that caters to each of my staff member’s specific needs and interests.

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Learn to Blend Tech into Your Class; Get College Credit

Ask a Tech Teacher

Classmates will become the core of the teacher’s ongoing Personal Learning Network. Use technology to support teaching and achieve Common Core Standards. Rely on a Personal Learning Network. Solve common tech problems that arise in the classroom. Course Objectives.

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35 Take-aways from Summer 2016 Professional Development

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We experimented with some of the hottest tech tools available for the classroom such as Google Apps, differentiation tools, digital storytelling, visual learning, Twitter, blogs, Common Core and tech, digital citizenship, and formative assessment options. Time after time, they took responsibility for their own learning.

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17 Take-aways from Summer PD

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Time after time, participants took responsibility for their own learning. Participants worked together as a Personal Learning Network to understand. Meaning: I didn’t jump in to answer questions when students were stuck and they didn’t automatically ask for help before trying their own strategies.

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Online Classes! On Your Schedule

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Classmates will become the core of your ongoing Personal Learning Network. Strategies introduced range from conventional tools such as quick writes, online websites, and visual writing to unconventional approaches such as Twitter novels, comics, and Google Earth lit trips.