A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 27, 2016

There is a great deal of evidence to make educators reflect upon their use of technology. Even countries which have invested heavily in information and communication technologies (ICT) for education have seen no noticeable improvement in their performances in PISA results for reading, mathematics, or science." Nor should it!

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TeachThought

JULY 12, 2024

How To Connect Schools And Communities Using Technology by Terry Heick It’s possible that there is no time in the history of education that our systems of educating have been so out of touch with the communities. Technology has many forms, but in education, it is most visible in terms of computing hardware and software.

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 3, 2014

Educators today are pressured to integrate technology as society becomes more digitized. With schools becoming more and more connected and spending countless sums of money to provide adequate amounts of technology educators are becoming increasingly overwhelmed. Book Review Eye on Education Reinventing Writing Routledge Vicki Davis'

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 16, 2018

Anyone who reads my blog knows that I am a huge proponent of research-influenced practice, evidence, accountability, and efficacy. No matter where an educator is in their career and regardless of experience, there is always room for growth and the majority of educators are more than open to this. Herein lies my crucial point.

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Teaching Anthropology

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

The post Excavation and Education: Lessons Learned as Teaching Assistants in the Schreiber Wood Project Field School first appeared on Teaching Anthropology. The SWP field school offers UTM students the opportunity to be trained in archaeological excavation within their campus grounds.

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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 14, 2021

This challenging school year has made it clear that educational institutions and educators must be flexible and willing to adapt to a changing educational landscape. Second, the 5Es instructional model prioritizes teacher agency, which I don’t think we talk about enough in education. Elaborate: Apply Your Learning.

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Teaching Anthropology

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

The post Excavation and Education: Lessons Learned as Teaching Assistants in the Schreiber Wood Project Field School first appeared on Teaching Anthropology. The SWP field school offers UTM students the opportunity to be trained in archaeological excavation within their campus grounds.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 4, 2020

How can educators feel confident that an edtech tool supports learning? As an educator, I struggled to find reliable information about edtech tools as nearly every product I looked at claimed that it was based on research. At Digital Promise, we worked alongside educators to develop the Research-Based Design product certification.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 12, 2019

This blog post is the second in a series where participating districts share why they are committed to providing maker learning opportunities to their students. The walls and shelves of this 106-year-old building are covered with authentic student learning artifacts. In 2012, students in Grades 7-8 followed suit.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 8, 2018

The irony of this is that many of us educators have been successfully navigating the waters of personalized learning for our students, but haven’t been given the opportunity to transition that same approach to our own professional learning. The post My Educator Journey with Micro-credentials appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 7, 2019

Digital Promise’s Adult Learning initiative recently launched Community Impact Stories, a new series of blog posts to highlight adult learner stories across the nation. Re-design, or remix, literacy refers to the ability to construct new meanings, texts, or multimedia products with existing texts, images, and other artifacts.

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Digital Promise

MAY 21, 2020

We spoke with STEM researchers and educators Ximena Dominguez, Kevin McElhaney, and Nick Schiner about the importance of the home-school STEM connection in the context of COVID-19. Based on your experience, how can educators help families to feel more confident in their role as STEM teachers and co-learners?

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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 16, 2024

The first and second blogs in this series focused on providing meaningful choices when students are acquiring information and making meaning. This allows educators to focus more on facilitating learning and less on the time-consuming task of creating meaningful choices and differentiated options.

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Edthena

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

The author of Ed Tech Essentials and founder of Class Tech Tips encourages educators to use tech tools for their own professional learning. In this PLtogether Lounge Talk, Monica Burns talked with Edthena founder and CEO Adam Geller about the advantages of integrating educational technology into adult learning.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 22, 2021

This year in my role as a trainer, I leaned into reading articles from outlets such as Edutopia, Education Week, and MindShift to increase my knowledge about effective remote learning strategies. Keeping an e-Portfolio allows an educator to distill what is integral to his/her beliefs and realign practice according to essential goals.”.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 10, 2022

The pandemic has demanded a high level of adaptability in education that micro-credentials can support. To support educators in accessing quality and relevant professional learning tools at the beginning of the pandemic, we curated a list of micro-credentials that could be earned with a remote or hybrid classroom.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 13, 2021

When suddenly propelled into distance learning last spring, educators rose to the challenge to meet the needs of students and families. Coaches and educators alike will continue to iterate, innovate, reflect, execute, and exude immense tenacity in the face of great uncertainty.

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Edthena

JUNE 16, 2023

Teacher agency is about educators taking the driver’s seat of their own learning and development. Check out the video of the presentation above, or keep reading for how video analysis supports stronger and deeper educator reflection and development at UAS. Video reflection and analysis support culturally responsive practices, too.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 8, 2016

The Friday Institute for Educational Innovation at North Carolina State University recently scaled access to professional learning content for educators by taking advantage of the Massive Open Online Courses for Educators (MOOC-Eds) format. However, reaching educators is only half the mission of the MOOC-Ed.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 17, 2019

The Kentucky Valley Educational Cooperative (KVEC) is an educational service agency in rural southeastern Kentucky that serves 22 school districts, 134 schools, over 3,000 teachers, and more than 50,000 students. This network helps us organize and maximize resources to advance student outcomes.

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Digital Promise

MAY 23, 2023

This 3-part blog series , featuring guest authors from The Learning Accelerator and MA DESE OET , highlights the importance of centering equity in edtech selection. In this third post, the author describes lessons learned while leading a cohort of diverse schools and districts through a process of strengthening their edtech systems.

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Moler's Musing

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

With everything happening, I decided to take my weekly activities, add a quick description, and let AI handle the blog writing. Also, if you’re interested in how AI can be used effectively in education, check out an article I contributed to in EdWeek: Can AI Be Used Effectively in Class?

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Digital Promise

MAY 2, 2019

Educators welcome a diverse set of students into their classrooms daily. An educator’s role is to understand this variability and account for it while teaching complex curriculum in a way that each student feels supported and successful. Both the student and teacher then reflect on the experience.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 26, 2019

Since March 2016, over 2,000 schools and educators have signed the Maker Promise to register their commitment to providing maker learning experiences for all students. To better support all educators in creating powerful maker learning programs, we are unveiling our updated Digital Promise Maker Learning Leadership Framework.

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Studies Weekly

MAY 2, 2024

A Teacher’s Guide to Celebrating Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month May 2, 2024 • Studies Weekly Diverse perspectives strengthen education, according to Heather Singmaster’s EdWeek article from November 2018. They broaden students’ view of history and teach them to respect people from different cultures.

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Digital Promise

MAY 20, 2020

With schools closed and social distancing orders in place due to COVID-19, micro-credentials —which are online and on-demand—allow educators to continue their professional learning without leaving their homes. In this post, we highlight the experience of two educators who earned micro-credentials during the pandemic.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

When I embarked on the journey of reviewing micro-credentials for the Friday Institute for Educational Innovation , I was excited and honored to be a part of what I believe is an incredible initiative to provide educators more personalized professional learning. Sarah Stephens. This is not always a simple task.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

The College of Education and Human Performance at the University of Central Florida strives to be at the forefront of innovation in teacher training and development. Traditionally, colleges of education prescribe a fixed set of courses for their teacher candidates to complete. If successful, they all earn the same degree.

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Edthena

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Heather describes how creating routines with coaching cycles can release the cognitive burden off of teachers and coaches, allowing them to have a rich and purposeful dialogue about the artifacts of teaching. A team of educators started realizing that they “knew it when they saw it.” Does it mean the same thing to your colleague?

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Photogrammetry and 3D modeling that shares natural or cultural artifacts. Educators and adults working with students under age 18 are welcome to share their students’ media. photos, audio, and text annotation. Volumetric VR using real people and places. Three-dimensional video games and simulations.

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Edthena

AUGUST 2, 2017

The Colorado Education Association (CEA) is partnering with Edthena to embed video observation and feedback into courses offered on COpilot, the state’s online professional learning platform. Now, with COpilot, educators across the state can experience video feedback as part of their professional development.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 22, 2019

She demonstrated her understanding and use of strategies such as mindfulness breaks by collecting artifacts that showed how her students benefited from these changes in practice. Orr said one of her biggest takeaways from the micro-credentials process was the importance of leveraging students’ strengths, which she did not do initially.

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Edthena

DECEMBER 7, 2015

To connect each painting to the broader story of the exhibit, the museum curator uses labels to highlight information about each artifact. The post Putting the Development into Professional Development Data appeared first on the Edthena blog. And we’ve had frameworks integrated for several years.

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Edthena

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

The tools educators can use to guide viewing of instructional practice videos are called Focusing Techniques, and they are synthesized from research on teacher learning, self-reflection, and accelerated improvement. The Spot technique encourages educators to notice significant details within a larger context.

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Digital Promise

MAY 23, 2017

Any experienced teacher knows the answer to this question is more complex than a simple “yes” or “no”; readiness to become a high-impact educator is an ongoing journey that begins well before that first moment leading your own classroom. Indeed, what are the first steps on the journey to great teaching? Formative Assessment. Collaboration.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Seymour Papert is often seen as one of the most important founding figures of the maker movement in education, and the value of audience in maker learning is derived explicitly from his learning theory of Constructionism.

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Edthena

DECEMBER 17, 2015

The other big thing with how Leveled Indicators work is that they allow the coach to define the Target Level as part of the Exploration before teachers assemble their artifacts and before the coach leaves feedback. The word “leveled” is also used in other education contexts, such as reading diagnostic tests for elementary readers.

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