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Prioritize Your Professional Development This Year with These New Micro-credentials

Digital Promise

NAGC’s mission is to support those who enhance the growth and development of gifted and talented children through education, advocacy, community building, and research. If you are interested in developing your own micro-credentials, contact us. National Association for Gifted Children. UTeach Computer Science.

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New Approaches to Instructional Technology Coaching

Digital Promise

Verizon Innovative Learning Schools coaches were often tapped to help lead the transition in their districts , drawing on the program’s tech-focused professional development to prepare teachers to engage with students virtually.

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How Access to Technology Can Create Equity in Schools

Digital Promise

Investing in professional development so teachers effectively personalize the learning experience for their students. In suburban Illinois, Gurnee School District 56 decided to take their commitment to personalized learning one step further by offering personalized professional development to educators.

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Activating the Community to Support Education Innovation

Digital Promise

Deklotz and her team are committed to setting up teachers with the resources they need to be successful, providing extensive and differentiated professional development opportunities through the district’s micro-credentialing system.

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Going Beyond the Hour of Code

Digital Promise

Read a book, blog, or magazine. Nearly all of the options listed have professional development available. See a sample letter to principal, advocacy slide deck , and additional resources. include: Computational Thinking for Educators from Google (15-30 hours). Teaching CS Fundamentals from Code.org (3-8 hours).

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Advancing Computational Thinking Across K-12 Education

Digital Promise

Among them are advocacy campaigns, curriculum and resource development, professional development for teachers and administrators, and continued research. We offer a number of recommendations to move this work forward. Supporting educators to teach computational thinking.

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Come for the computers, stay for the books

The Hechinger Report

based education advocacy group. “It Teaming up with Skyview’s instructional technology facilitator and early-adopting teachers, Chun frequently demonstrates new tech tools at the school’s teacher-led professional development meetings. Often, she backs up these introductions by co-teaching a class or two. “It

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