Digital Promise

JUNE 1, 2021

Since 2014, the Verizon Innovative Learning Schools initiative has provided every student and teacher at select middle and high schools with a data plan to support learning in and out of the classroom.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 24, 2019

She wrote a blog post about her experience and added a photo of herself with the hashtag #ILookLikeAnEngineer. Nia Keith, director of professional development for the Museum of Science. Costs for whole-school training sessions range from $2,500 to $10,000 depending on location. Anchalee responded like the techie she is.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Hoang co-leads Burbank’s partnership with Turnaround Arts: California , a signature program of the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities that seeks to advance education in a select group of elementary and middle schools in the state. Now, over 200,000 students in 4,000 schools have ArcGIS Online accounts.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Implementing reforms in a district, like eliminating grade levels in Kettle Moraine Middle School, is not a feasible task without community understanding. In talking through the challenges, Deklotz recently remarked, “The public listens to teachers before anyone else.”

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 7, 2021

I served my Title 1 school as a sixth grade math teacher for four years and as a learning strategist for nine years before making a move in 2018 to the Southern Nevada Regional Professional Development Program, which provides professional learning to the five southern counties of Nevada, as a regional math trainer.

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Digital Promise

MAY 18, 2021

Collective Support offers school and after-school site leaders of color the opportunity to investigate their own practice and design new ways of thinking and being. The MindCatcher team supports the cohort virtually through participatory, hands-on professional development.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 21, 2019

DuBois Academy opened its doors last fall as an all-boys middle school with an Afrocentric curriculum, the first of its kind in Louisville, Kentucky. Moreover, the new school also joined the fifth cohort of the Verizon Innovative Learning schools initiative.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 16, 2019

Read a book, blog, or magazine. middle school curricula. high school curricula. Nearly all of the options listed have professional development available. Advocate to bring CS to your school. include: Computational Thinking for Educators from Google (15-30 hours). Start a club.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Districts, schools, educators, and families scrambled to get plans in place for distance learning.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Through school visits and panel discussions with TDSB officials, district leaders explored local policies and systems, the use of data for equity, and professional development and training for teachers and leaders, keeping an eye and ear toward what they could bring back to their own school communities.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 13, 2015

– Interrogating our instruction: Are these elementary and middle school projects any good? – Going deeper with the components of high-quality PBL – A PBL case study – Making sense of PBL in our own context – Getting set up with Feedly and some awesome school leadership blogs.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 15, 2019

The Dynamic Learning Project provides opportunities for teachers to engage in active learning that is relevant to their classroom through different types of meetings with the coach, from one-on-one formal and informal meetings, to classroom visits from the coach, to co-teaching and modeling, to coach-facilitated group professional development (PD).

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 7, 2019

In its first year as a Verizon Innovative Learning school, Lassiter Middle School in Louisville, Kentucky, was among the most improved schools in the district across all grade levels and content areas based on Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) test scores. “It It really helps them grasp the language.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2017

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. Several schools in the district have added small, pleasure-reading libraries to ELA classrooms, for instance.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Since 2014, the Verizon Innovative Learning Schools (VILS) initiative has provided every student and teacher at select middle and high schools with a device equipped with a data plan to support learning in and out of the classroom. Verizon Innovative Learning Schools were better prepared for distance learning. “We

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Though it’s most often associated with sports, coaching can also be an important form of professional development in education. Like in sports, its goal is to improve individual and team performance. What Does a Strong Classroom-based Coaching Program Look Like?

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Digital Promise

MARCH 31, 2017

Vista Unified School District – Vista, CA. Located in southern California, Roosevelt Middle School is part of an interstate collaboration with two other middle schools located in Mentor, Ohio, and Kettle Moraine, Wisconsin, to further competency-based education (CBE).

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Science Teacher, Arbutus Middle School, Arbutus, MD. Powerful learning, or any new initiative in a classroom, can seem insurmountable and overwhelming without professional development (PD), coaching, and support. Middle School English Teacher, River Dell Regional School District, New Jersey.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 4, 2016

The Maker Promise will build a national network of school leaders committed to making, and will connect participating schools with a suite of resources that will include things like maker curriculum, professional development, makerspace design, and storytelling strategies.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 2, 2017

The program began in March 2016 at MIT, a comprehensive middle school with 6th, 7th and 8th grades. Key components of the one-to-one Literacy Initiative include: Increasing student access to devices to help support oral language development, language production, and efficiency. About the Literacy Initiative.

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Digital Promise

JULY 31, 2019

Since 2014, the Verizon Innovative Learning schools initiative has reached more than 86,000 students and nearly 6,000 teachers in 100 middle schools across the country. The post Growing the Culture of Learning with Verizon Innovative Learning schools appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 11, 2017

Through this work, we see powerful examples of innovation across education — from students creating their own virtual reality (VR) films, to researchers working with technology developers to improve edtech efficacy, to educators rethinking their own professional development with the use of micro-credentials. Short Answer: Yes!

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Digital Promise

APRIL 19, 2017

In each of the Verizon Innovative Learning Schools , educator professional development is a major component on the journey to enhance student learning and engagement. Group professional development is a great way to model learning and put teachers back in the role of student.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 13, 2021

“Not only did we have so many of our schools equipped with the devices and the high-speed internet, we now had a group of experts, that for those that weren’t participants in this amazing program, they were able to mentor, coach, and connect with those that needed the additional support,” she said.

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Dr. Shannon Doak

JUNE 7, 2019

These include slide presentations, graphic organizers, infographics, ebooks, video presentations, websites, whiteboard app creations, graphic novels, blog posts, ePortfolios, podcasts, coded applications, digital art, video games, and VR world creations. In our lower school, our classrooms are 1:1 iPads.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 15, 2016

While in middle school, students need to read nonfiction texts that contain many technical, discipline-specific words, but these texts also include many ‘all-purpose’ academic words, such as factor , structure , function , and interpret. The treatment schools were in their first or second year of using Word Generation.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

While in middle school, students need to read nonfiction texts that contain many technical, discipline-specific words, but these texts also include many ‘all-purpose’ academic words, such as factor , structure , function , and interpret. The treatment schools were in their first or second year of using Word Generation.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 15, 2016

Job Embedded Professional Development. Professional Learning Communities. Leadership is second only to teaching among school-related factors that can improve student achievement, and it tends to show greatest impact in traditionally underserved schools ( Leithwood, Seashore Louis, Anderson, and Wahlstrom, 2004 ).

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Digital Promise

JUNE 12, 2017

To accomplish this, we must support educators to develop competence in learner-centered teaching practices that encourage student self-awareness about their needs as independent learners. As Paige K.,

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Edthena

AUGUST 17, 2015

Amanda Huza, middle school principal of Equality Charter School in The Bronx, knew that video had the potential to be a powerful tool for the teachers and coaches on her staff. When Amanda introduced Edthena as a core component of Equality’s professional development curriculum, she noticed an immediately positive response.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Researchers from Brown University and the Harvard Graduate School of Education found that pairing highly skilled teachers with lower-performing colleagues at the same school, then asking them to work together for a year on specific skills, produced meaningful and lasting improvements in teacher skills and student performance.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

In November 2015, middle-school students from Westchester County, New York, found themselves on a windswept field in Southern Sudan mingling with a crowd of refugees fleeing civil war. Mark’s blog post about teaching empathy mentions both the refugee VR video and one about the lives of police in Flint, Michigan.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 2, 2017

This article originally appeared on Usable Knowledge from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Should middle school teachers let a failing eighth-grade student graduate, knowing that if she’s held back, she’ll likely drop out? Should a private school principal condone inflated grades? Read the original version here.

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Edthena

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

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. We’ve got a blog there. So, you go to the blog.

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