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Using Micro-credentials for Personalized Professional Development

Digital Promise

And to help individual educators in this network develop and enhance the skills they need to address our region’s challenges, we use micro-credentials. Micro-credentials provide personalized professional development opportunities aligned to theory of action plans. Solving problems together with the ACT Network.

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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. Now, with video conferencing tools, coaches are able to “visit” more classrooms on a given day.

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Guest Post: From Consumption to Creation: Future Ready Librarians Embrace Micro-credentials

Digital Promise

School libraries are shifting from traditional settings where information is consumed to modern library programs which support authentic student inquiry, design, and creation. Competency-based performance is not the same as traditional professional development. Lesson learned: Make instructions explicit and expect resubmissions.

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A ‘summer camp’ for teachers fills a gap in environmental education

The Hechinger Report

Nicholls State’s department of teacher education, in partnership with Louisiana State University’s school of education and the Louisiana Sea Grant program based at the university, was awarded a two-year National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration grant for the project.

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Can private Pre-K for All providers survive in New York City?

The Hechinger Report

It’s an artifact of the early childhood system; it’s grown up that way. This can be a significant disadvantage, and takes away from devoting time to nurturing teachers, education quality, parental engagement and curriculum and professional development — all those things we know go into supporting good outcomes for children and families.”.

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Deepening Your Teaching Practice Using Video (C3 Connecting, Coaches, Cognition Podcast)

Edthena

Getting started using video at your school and not sure how to begin? Courtney Groskin are Learning Coaches with the Office of Professional Development in St. Vrain Valley School District in Colorado and hosts of the C3: Connecting, Coaches Cognition ?Podcast. Violet Christensen and? I’m not suggesting that.