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Snow Days Don't Stop Digital Learning at #NMHS

A Principal's Reflections

The now annual Digital Learning Day was set for Wednesday February 5, 2014. For the past couple of years every day is treated as Digital Learning Day as we have moved to create a teaching and learning culture rich in authentic activities where students are engaged and take ownership of their learning. Why might you ask?

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Pillars of Digital Leadership Series: Opportunity

A Principal's Reflections

It is set to be published by Corwin Press on January 14, 2014. Pillar #7 - Opportunity The interconnectedness of the Pillars of Digital Leadership leads to continuous improvements in school culture and professional practice. Currently there is a pre-publication discount of 15% for any orders before this date.

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Revisiting the Legacy of San Francisco’s Detracking Experiment

ED Surge

In 2014, the district pushed algebra to ninth grade from eighth grade, in an attempt to eliminate the tracking, or grouping, of students into lower and upper math paths. Performing the Autopsy Proponents of the detracking effort see themselves as fighting against the tide of the countrys education system and, even more difficult, its culture.

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Alaska schools pay a price for the nation’s slowest internet, but change is coming

The Hechinger Report

She rattled off students’ responses as they popped up on the smartboard in a colorful word cloud: “Forced relocation, reduced population, disease, warfare, cultural destruction … wow, that’s a powerful term.”. But the future of educational technology here is starting to emerge from a pixelated past.

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Celebrating a School-Wide Commitment to Powerful Learning

Digital Promise

HP Spotlight Schools are also characterized by a school culture in which risk-taking and instructional innovation are supported by leadership. Visitors can expect to see innovative technology use with HP and Microsoft tools. A Closer Look at Our 2019 HP Spotlight School. A Closer Look at Our 2019 HP Spotlight School.

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Why Do Underrepresented Students Struggle to Get the Math They Need for College?

ED Surge

In 2014, San Francisco schools, in an attempt to “de-track” math, started enrolling all students into Algebra I in ninth grade rather than eighth grade. The decision provoked lawsuits and cultural scraps over “woke” math. But recent attempts to change this have proven controversial.

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Meet Six Educators We All Can Learn From

Digital Promise

When Digital Promise and EdSurge considered which educator award categories to include in the 2014 Digital Innovation in Learning Awards , we wanted to highlight five areas where exemplary teachers around the world are using innovative strategies to engage and empower students.