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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Edthena

MARCH 18, 2022

The AI Coach by Edthena was recently featured on the eSchool News Innovations in Education podcast. Kevin Hogan and Adam Geller also spoke about how video has become more commonplace among educators. AI Coach Platform: When Edtech Concepts Become Practical Classroom Realities. Pretty cool sort of stuff. Adam Geller: Thank you.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 10, 2018

School districts across the country are tackling the toughest challenges in education, including kindergarten readiness, family engagement, and school redesign. Based on what we learned from challenge sessions, artifact reviews, and in-depth interviews with district leaders, we created the Challenge Map. Introducing the Challenge Map.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The early childhood educators I work with have also shared about pandemic struggles that have made it more difficult to embrace change. Many educators say they (and their students) were handed devices without much guidance during the COVID-19 closures. When using technology, icons are like the letters in our edtech alphabet.

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ED Surge

JUNE 27, 2023

Memories of the continual improvement he was able to do back then have stuck with him as his career has progressed, including jobs as a high school history teacher, an edtech consultant to schools, a doctoral student and professor, and director of MIT’s Teaching Systems Lab. And Reich has made it a personal goal to share the lesson.

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Edthena

JANUARY 15, 2021

Education researchers Laureen Cervone Avery and Patricia Martinez-Miller (2007) describe classroom walkthroughs as a tool that should “drive a cycle of continuous improvement by focusing on the effects of instruction.” Sometimes, that’s just not easy to make happen given the constant demands of a school.

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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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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.”

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Edthena

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Holding office hours is not an uncommon practice for educators. K-12 educators have long-held tutoring and work-space time for their students after school, and the idea of virtual office hours is comparable to this. Recording the artifact is one thing, but using this artifact to improve your practice is much more significant.

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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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Edthena

JUNE 16, 2021

Educators know that June is a special time. Read on for more about why end-of-year reflections are an educator’s best friend and how to conduct one yourself this year. But can you identify what you, as an educator, have mastered and grown in? June is often a whirlwind of tasks and emotions for educators.

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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. Rather, the collection of paintings tells the story of some aspect of the artist evolving over time. And we’ve had frameworks integrated for several years.

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Edthena

MARCH 30, 2021

Edthena brings together the key components of the micro-credential process in one place: District leaders can define competencies and how educators will demonstrate skills. Organizations that want to issue micro-credentials to their teachers can accomplish that process via their Edthena partnership.

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Edthena

OCTOBER 6, 2020

What needs to change is what types of artifacts you’re using as evidence of teaching and learning in order to perform teacher observations. What type of artifacts of distance teaching can be collected to assist teachers? What if you can’t meet face-to-face with your teachers anymore due to safety protocol?

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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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Edthena

JANUARY 12, 2021

Video artifacts help confirm whether every educator interpreting the vision the same way. The shift to distance learning offers new opportunities for discussion and alignment of values to create a sense of unity among educators. School leaders strive to center their school community around a professional vision.

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Edthena

MAY 20, 2022

He started his career in education as a science teacher in St. Adam has written on education technology topics for various publications, including Education Week, Forbes and EdSurge, and he has been an invited speaker about education technology and teacher training for conferences at home and abroad. Louis, Missouri.

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Edthena

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

They recently interviewed Edthena founder and CEO Adam Geller about video coaching and how best to incorporate using video in schools to support educators improving and deepening their practice. How did you get started in education and how did it get to where you are now with using video? I started my career in education as a teacher.

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