A Principal's Reflections

JULY 15, 2013

It is a distraction to the teaching and learning process. Blogs are an incredible social media tool that can be utilized in a variety of ways. Teachers can set up a class blog to foster creative writing and reflection, or as an alternative to a school newspaper. Social Media is bad and has no place in education.

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Edthena

JUNE 5, 2023

Teacher professional development is a key component of school improvement, but are your teachers really getting the most from your instructional PD? Whether you’re a district-wide PD director or a school principal, it’s important to maximize the time teachers spend engaging in their professional learning and growth.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Instructional coaching is a form of professional development (PD) in which an accomplished teacher works with teachers in one-on-one settings to provide guidance and focus on practical strategies to increase student engagement and learning. Here’s how: Content Focus. So why, then, shouldn’t teacher learning also be personalized?

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Edthena

JULY 9, 2021

Lots of things adjusted with distance teaching, but the changes to professional development for educators has actually helped it become more accessible. And one way the pandemic helped those in the teaching profession was by getting people more comfortable using and looking at video.

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Dr. Shannon Doak

AUGUST 18, 2023

In the ever-evolving education realm, staying up-to-date with new teaching techniques, technological breakthroughs, and best practices is absolutely essential. In this blog post, we’ll delve into how Web 2.0 can be a game-changer for teacher professional development, creating a dynamic and interconnected learning community.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 13, 2022

With BB2C’s first micro-credential, they verify the educator’s skill in developing and implementing real world, problem-based learning with community partners.*. Longtime micro-credential advocate Kentucky Valley Educational Cooperative has released a variety of micro-credentials in their Teaching Students with Disabilities stack.

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Studies Weekly

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

5 Classroom Management Tips for Elementary Teachers Sep 17, 2024 • by Studies Weekly Classroom management is such a big part of teaching and has become more critical as students readjust to post-pandemic in-person learning. Role-play a whining voice versus using a big clear student voice so they understand the difference.

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Digital Promise

MAY 9, 2018

Over the past 10 years as a teacher (and more recently as an aspiring administrator), I have consistently sought out new and innovative professional development. However, no opportunity had truly satisfied my urge to improve my teaching and also prepared me to become a principal until the fall of 2016.

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 20, 2019

Now more than ever we must not only teach our kids to be critical consumers of digital content, but we must also model the same. The content they shared included policies, procedures, pedagogical techniques, and professional development, but more importantly, tangible improvement results.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 13, 2013

In collaboration with my staff and the support of District leadership, my efforts have laid the foundation for an innovative teaching and learning culture that focuses on preparing all students for success. To this end, teachers and students are now routinely utilizing social media and other various Web 2.0

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 28, 2011

Nor do they care to engage me in a discussion as to why I spend valuable time with Twitter or my blog. by Lyn Hilt Is Blogging Really Worth It? by Justin Tarte Blog on, Principal, but Relationships Come First: Lessons from RISD''s Maeda by Jonathan Martin Let’s face it, we can all agree that we could use more time in the day.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 25, 2011

I was also adamant that social media had no place in an educational setting, but most of you who read this blog know about my radical change of mind in regards to this. These small changes, combined with many others, are beginning to have a huge impact on the teaching, learning, and community culture of my school.

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A Psychology Teacher Writes

JUNE 11, 2024

Professional development often fails to cater for individual needs because it’s unlikely that in a room full of teachers everyone is in roughly the same place in terms of knowledge, experience and expertise. How, then, can we design our professional development to help develop this kind of responsive decision making?

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 6, 2010

Learning environments that are structured in such a way will not only help students think critically, problem solve, and master the content, but also teach them how to be digitally responsible. I have blogged about these over the past couple months and will either provide brief descriptions or links to past posts.

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 30, 2017

As a teacher, I was only afforded the opportunity to work with a limited number of students who I had the pleasure of teaching. As an author of six books, numerous articles, and a blog, I am dogged by a perception that I am a good writer. Each week I labor over creating a blog post. Perception always surrounds our work and us.

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Edthena

DECEMBER 7, 2015

One data point won’t tell the whole story, and a collection of classroom videos needs to be linked together using the common language of a teaching framework. Data aligned to professional skills. Imagine a coach created a professional development cycle focused on questioning strategies.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Through the financial literacy micro-credentials, educators are given the support needed to teach foundational skills to their students for financial success in college and career. The post Reimagining Financial Literacy Professional Development through Micro-credentials appeared first on Digital Promise.

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

Professional Learning Communities (PLC''s): The district will be moving to this research-based model as our main means of professional development. The data that I will collect and share with them will serve as a catalyst for their improvement in the areas of teaching and learning. So what''s on the horizon at my school?

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Digital Promise

MAY 13, 2021

Online Teaching, Technology, and Learner Variability : Teachers with a high degree of comfort with technology are significantly less likely than others to say the pandemic has worsened their ability to work with each student’s individual learner variability. Edtech and Professional Development.

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Edthena

MARCH 14, 2016

As a professor of teacher education at University of Washington, Morva McDonald spent years researching and designing professional development for teachers. How does video fit into your larger vision for professional development and coaching at the school? This year Morva changed roles from professor to principal.

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Edthena

AUGUST 18, 2021

Teaching videos lead the way. million minutes of teaching. That’s teaching videos equal to more than 12,800 full school days. Uploading teaching videos is just the first step to collaboration. million comments on teaching videos. With 15 group members, that’s 172 teaching videos per person in one year!

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Edthena

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Hard to imagine what using artificial intelligence in teacher professional development could mean? But how can using AI in professional learning and development help support educators ? Adaptive learning drives teacher professional development. teacher professional development.

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TCI

MARCH 25, 2025

Supporting English Language Learners As Paul Fitchett, professor of curriculum and teaching at Auburn University’s College of Education, explains, “Understanding who you are and your place in society, that’s not something that just teenagers are thinking about.

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Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

My reading regularly inspires my blogs, books, teaching, and work with educators. This year, traditional approaches to professional development may feel daunting because teachers are spread thin due to substitute shortages and the challenges associated with returning to physical classrooms.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 5, 2019

There is no shortage of sound research on what constitutes effective professional development for teachers—focusing on specific curriculum content, encouraging active learning, supporting collaboration among peers, and offering opportunities for analysis of student work. Education policy issues must be addressed first.

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A Psychology Teacher Writes

JUNE 22, 2024

Before we think about instructional coaching, let’s talk about teaching. It’s clear from just spending a short time reading statements from politicians, reports in the media, or discourse on social media that teaching also has something of a PR problem. Which brings us to instructional coaching. Is this true?

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Edthena

MARCH 31, 2020

Educators who were expecting to teach in classrooms in Beijing, China, are now teaching virtual classes remotely from their homes. Asynchronous Teaching. The international team teaches using the learning management system Moodle. During the first few weeks, patience and flexibility was a necessity. Teacher Support.

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Edthena

NOVEMBER 22, 2015

But sometimes video self reflection mixed with other types of evidence analysis can improve the professional development experience. Explorations enable all organizations to implement research-informed strategies for evidence-based learning within a professional development cycle. Explorations™ is our answer.

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A Psychology Teacher Writes

OCTOBER 29, 2023

They’re a great bit of kit that can let you do lots of really useful things in your teaching. I champion them in CPD sessions, when I’m giving lesson feedback, and I’ve certainly mentioned them in a blog or two. I did get it set up and started experimenting, then used it at home for online teaching during the Covid pandemic.

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Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Is your teaching practice sustainable? As an educator with 16 years of teaching experience, I have dedicated the last several years to training, coaching, and supporting teachers. I want to help educators establish and maintain balance in their teaching practices and in their lives. The answer I hear most from teachers is “no.”

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Catlin Tucker

JULY 8, 2015

I work in a district with next to no funding for professional development. I follow interesting people on Twitter, read popular education blogs, and attend as many sessions as possible at the conferences where I speak. Creatively Teach the Common Core Literacy Standards with Technology Available NOW !

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 21, 2020

Moreover, teachers who received DLP coaching reported greater skills and confidence in leveraging technology in their teaching, which resulted in increased student engagement and learning. including access to coaching, the perceived effectiveness of coaching, and the existing financial and professional support for coaches.

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Edthena

AUGUST 24, 2021

Building more content knowledge is often the go-to for teacher professional development, especially during back-to-school season. Heather Hill, a researcher at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, says to skip the PD that’s focused solely on developing new content knowledge. The findings were surprising.

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Edthena

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Starting in the 2017-18 school year, two innovative Nevada educational organizations, Lyon County School District and Northeastern Nevada Regional Professional Development Program, will provide video coaching to educators via Edthena to enrich educator professional learning.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 12, 2019

In July 2018, Digital Promise launched a new Maker Learning Leadership Cohort dedicated to professional learning, peer connections, and school transformation in the Pittsburgh region. 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.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 19, 2019

No doubt they had good reason: Previous teaching evaluations did not always “capture important teaching skills” and “fail(ed) to meaningfully differentiate teacher performance.” We will explore this opportunity in our next blog post. A large share of $4.3 Some compelling examples are emerging.

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Edthena

AUGUST 11, 2021

It’s our 10th anniversary, which means the Edthena blog is also turning the big 1-0. Curious about our greatest blog hits from over the past decade? Whether you’re new to the blog and wanted a list of our must-sees or just needed some good refreshers and re-reads, enjoy! Sign up for our Edthena blog mailing list.

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