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Measuring Impact with the Digital Practice Assessment (DPA)

A Principal's Reflections

It begins by examining the strategies in place at each school or district that support student learning with technology in the areas of rigor, relevance, relationships, engagement, and overall culture. The DPA doesn’t just look at technology and innovation.

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Quantifying Innovative Practices

A Principal's Reflections

Among these resources stands the Innovative Practices Assessment (IPA), which was created to fill a void in moving from ideas and innovative practices to results that improve the learning culture. The IPA establishes the framework for educators and administrators, facilitating an innovative lens to underpin individualized professional growth.

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The Device Conundrum - 1:1 vs BYOD

A Principal's Reflections

In my opinion, schools that wish to create the most relevant and meaningful learning culture will go in one of these directions. The should most certainly be able to use it to replace more archaic forms of technology (i.e. pencil and paper) if they wish.

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How New Orleans Food Culture Shaped My View of School Lunches

ED Surge

When my class wrote a book last year about artifacts of New Orleans culture and what they mean to them, a third of the class wrote about food. Despite inheriting this culinary and cultural legacy, my students find themselves in a tough position during the school day for breakfast and lunch.

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What New Research Says About Fostering a ‘Sense of Belonging’ in Classrooms

ED Surge

And one of the things that she's found is that in a study done at Stanford, she took over a small room in the computer science department and in one condition, she populated this room with these artifacts of geeky masculine culture, like a Star Trek poster and Diet Coke cans. Kids who are misbehaving are threatening to that.

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We Must Teach Black History Like Our Lives Depend on It

ED Surge

They all pushed for a more expansive understanding of Black humanity by embracing their unique identities and expressing their love for Black culture. Today, I have better language for talking about Black people, traditions and culture in a way that develops a deeper understanding of what it means to be fully human.

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Explore Shared Education Challenges with the Challenge Map

Digital Promise

To that end, the Digital Promise Research team collaborated with school districts in the League of Innovative Schools (League) to discover precisely which shared challenges these forward-thinking districts are prioritizing in order to surface promising approaches and bring educators and researchers together around pressing problems of practice.