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Professional Development Is Dying — and It's Most Evident in My Local Teacher Community

ED Surge

In early spring this year, the local chapter of my teacher professional development organization held our first in-person conference since the pandemic. While the classrooms in my building have returned to the bustling, lively places they were before 2020, I think many of us are still coming to grips with that experience.

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Why Professional Learning Is a Crucial Piece of a 1:1 Program

ED Surge

But when the COVID-19 pandemic shut down schools in March 2020, Mrs. Stamey realized that everything she had been doing suddenly needed to become digital. The inconvenient truth, however, is that it is not easy to come by high-impact professional development.

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COVID-19 and the Value of Edtech Coaches

Digital Promise

Similarly, a majority of respondents reported that their school and/or district leaders reached out to them more frequently than before because of the shift to remote learning, and that district leaders understood the value of technology as an avenue for providing equitable learning opportunities. Preparing for the new school year.

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Educator Micro-credentials Policy Map Provides an Update of State and District Use of Micro-credentials

Digital Promise

Digital Promise first launched our Micro-credential Policy Map in January 2020 to share valuable information on how states and districts across the U.S. States are continuing to develop policies and guidelines to support districts looking to leverage micro-credentials for professional learning.

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Why we could soon lose even more Black Teachers

The Hechinger Report

NEW ORLEANS—Before the 2020-21 school year, Christa Talbott, a 20-year veteran of New Orleans schools, had never considered leaving the profession she loved this early. By the end of 2020, the 44-year-old was agonizing over whether the school year might be her last teaching there. This story also appeared in Time. Into a burning house.

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What Is the True Cost of a 1:1 Device Program? One State’s Careful Rollout Offers a Look

ED Surge

That was the case of Birmingham, Alabama, where a 1:1 initiative was imposed by the city government in 2008 with virtually no support for professional development, technological infrastructure, curricula or repair. But these positive teaching and learning benefits didn’t occur in a handful of counterexamples.

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Edtech Has Grown More Common, More Global and More Sophisticated. What’s Next?

ED Surge

And in the edtech world, normal meant more ed and less tech than in 2020 and 2021. Dozens of companies raised venture funding at equal or lesser values —“down rounds”— compared to rounds raised during the pandemic-induced edtech boom of 2020 and 2021. This shift makes sense in a lot of ways—the Zoom classes of the early pandemic stunk.

EdTech 121