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At the beginning of this school year, I facilitated a professional development (PD) session with middle school teachers about how to use education technology tools for deeper learning.

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Today, after a key vote, it's official: Two giants in the education space will join forces, creating a professional development powerhouse for their educator members. million in the tax year 2019. The two nonprofit associations serve different constituencies and are noticeably different in size. “The

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She recognizes that tools must align to teachers’ instructional goals and must be accompanied by professional development that covers not just how individual tools function, but also how they fit into effective teaching practice. “I I need to reiterate with my teachers that the tech tool itself isn't the be all, end all,” Ballard said.

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JANUARY 26, 2024

Those are vital questions for education technology innovators as they build ventures, secure funding and expand their impact. Catalyst @ Penn GSE, a global center for education innovation at the University of Pennsylvania, is passionate about supporting education entrepreneurs. If you build it, will it work?

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AUGUST 28, 2024

Then, in 2019, when I became the lead Arabic teacher at my current school, I attended my first professional development conference. An educational aide once told me she felt offended by my hijab and thought it was disrespectful to her religious choices.

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MAY 8, 2024

By 2021, 91 percent of schools in New York City offered computer science (up from 76 percent in 2019). As we look to the future of computer science education, our goal is to sustain and enhance our partnerships with external organizations, offering diverse and enriching experiences for both students and educators.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2022

According to the 2019 Hanover Research report “2019 Teacher Perspectives on Professional Development,” 92 percent of teachers reported that the most satisfying professional learning experiences were those which external partners provided. Not sure how to set a five-year plan? Understand your teachers’ needs.

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APRIL 26, 2023

While the pandemic may have raised public awareness of the plight of education and the stress teachers and administrators face, this has always been a reality. A report published in Transforming Education in 2019 examined what happens when school leaders establish a culture of trusting relationships.

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JANUARY 11, 2023

Key happenings in 2022: Class became a maybe- unicorn selling a classroom management tool within a video conferencing platform—a category of company that literally did not exist in 2019. Venture capitalists invested north of $100 million in virtual reality companies after years of avoiding the sector due to hardware and bandwidth concerns.

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JANUARY 25, 2022

No amount of money or professional development and design time could have had a greater impact on school schedules than COVID-19. Andrew’s, we also help run the Center for Transformative Teaching and Learning, which trains educators in MBE and other research-based strategies. “Don’t go back!”

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JULY 28, 2022

The center worked with the National Indian Child Care Association to analyze 184 tribal child care plans submitted to HHS for the 2019-2022 fiscal year. The high school graduation rate among Native students rose from around 52 percent in 2013 to a high of 84 percent in 2019, she says.

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OCTOBER 19, 2022

Wellness Efforts Fall Short Our middle school opened its doors to roughly 100 fifth graders in 2019. Sometimes they’d give everyone a few unexpected hours back by canceling a professional development (PD) meeting. As we’ve added grades, we’ve welcomed in some new staff members and bid farewell to others.

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DECEMBER 31, 2021

That is, until the 2018-2019 school year, when several staff members fell ill. Non-educators assume that teachers only work from 7:30 a.m. People do not see the late nights planning and grading, the hours of mentoring and counseling students, or the days of training and professional development during those perceived vacation days.

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MARCH 7, 2023

I was looking for something that was backed by great research, had good tech support and would have professional development,” Van Fossan says. SoapBox launched a multi-year partnership with the Florida Center for Reading Research at Florida State University in 2019, to develop literacy assessments, according to the center's website.

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OCTOBER 5, 2022

Since 2019, I’ve worked with students in the metro Detroit area to advocate for sanctuary schools through an organization called MIStudentsDream. In 2019, Detroit Public Schools Community District officially declared themselves a Sanctuary District , a testament to parent organizing and advocacy in the city.

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JANUARY 11, 2022

Support Through the Pandemic As the safer-at-home orders extended into the 2019-2020 school year came to an end, the leadership team met to discuss how we would support our students. Needless to say, our students were looking for answers and it was up to us to provide solutions that would help them navigate this situation.

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AUGUST 16, 2022

And it felt like their fingers were pointed at us—the teachers—as the reason test scores have dropped, rather than the once-in-a-century pandemic that turned education upside down for the last three school years. Teachers have been accosted with endless professional development training, increased testing, and frequent surveys.

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MAY 23, 2022

Kang joined NAEYC as chief strategy and innovation officer in 2019, a few months before the pandemic began. She was tasked with overseeing and supporting membership, accreditation, conferences and events, global outreach and engagement, and professional learning—all areas that had to be retooled in some fashion for a pandemic environment.

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New EL schools must first go through several months of professional development, classroom observation and co-teaching — both at the schools and at three-day intensive “institutes” off-site. The network was purposefully capped at about 150 schools, because the partnerships rely on intensive, in-person training and coaching.

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MAY 2, 2020

Many schools embrace technology in the classroom as a route to these students’ hearts. They see kids devouring video games and living on social media and find it obvious that they would also like educational technology. But Logan’s feelings about online learning are common.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

But because schools don’t have enough staff with the expertise to properly vet safety risks associated with educational technology, he said, the increased use of that tech is putting students at risk. Atlanta’s Aina said school districts aren’t usually able to pay top dollar for cybersecurity professionals.

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APRIL 15, 2022

By 2019, the World Bank’s PRIEDE project had exceeded several of its goals. based EdTech Evidence Exchange, sees it as a major problem , especially given that more schools are using technology following the pandemic. But in 2020, the program requested $9 million more to rollout a teacher training campaign.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Yet, in the latest NAEP results, the state performed better than it had in 2019, making it one of the rare places to see academic recovery. Within the state, alternative schools offer the possibility of better education outcomes overall, she said, because they allow families to find the right fit for each kid.

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