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Quantifying Innovative Practices

A Principal's Reflections

The critical element in this equation was skillfully purposefully employing digital resources while ensuring consistency and continuity in all our old and new practices. School leadership teams are expected to collect and document aligned evidence for each item during this reflective process.

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Universal Design for Learning and Blended Learning: Representation

Catlin Tucker

For example, teachers can provide students with the option to read a digital text, listen to a podcast or audio recording, watch a video, or engage with an infographic/visual information on a topic. Customizing information is easier to do when teachers make that information available digitally. YourChoiceMedia.

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OPINION: Why creating and maintaining accessible digital resources is neither easy nor optional

The Hechinger Report

The Berkeley case teaches us to be attentive to accessibility up front, not simply because of legal requirements but because digital resources designed to meet accessibility standards support increased access for all. Accessibility is not optional.”. Not to be taken at all lightly, there are enormous costs to accessible information.

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There Is a Heightened Awareness Around Student Data Privacy. Here’s What Schools Are Doing About It

Digital Promise

During the throes of the COVID-19 pandemic, many school districts were quick to send devices home with students and to provide digital resources that may have been engaging, but may not have been as “data safe” as districts thought. 1 consideration when using and purchasing a digital solution.

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Challenges and Possible Solutions for Edtech Procurement: Part 1

Digital Promise

Technology’s capability to reach all learners at their individualized level has caused schools across the nation to acquire digital resources at accelerated rates. The involvement of teachers in procurement has important implications in efficacy and usage of digital resources.

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New National Survey Analyzes Impact of COVID-19 on Teaching and Learning

Digital Promise

Highlights from the survey include: Keeping Up Academically and the Digital Divide : Eighty-two percent of teachers say it’s been difficult for their students to keep up academically during the pandemic, though only 45 percent of parents have the same concern for their own child.

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The Intersection of Inquiry-Based Learning and High-Quality Instructional Materials in Social Studies

ED Surge

High-quality instructional materials (HQIMs) are educational resources designed to effectively support student learning. They can include textbooks, lesson plans, digital resources and other materials carefully crafted to meet the needs of diverse learners and facilitate meaningful learning experiences.