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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. This 18-question rubric asks school leaders to reflect on their perceptions of where their school falls, from needing to start to well-developed.

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How Schools Can Implement Mindful Media

TeachThought

Information and Communication Overloading (ICO) and “Mindful Media” contributed by Dr. Domenico Meschino In today’s digital age, children are immersed in many online activities that shape their daily lives. What is ICO and how does it relate to media consumption? What is Mindful Media?

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

Digital Promise

PVUSD’s parent educators empower parent and family engagement and feedback, and provide the necessary information, supports, and tools in multiple languages, including Mixteco Bajo, so they can continue to guide and support their child in their educational journey. Edtech and Professional Development.

Teaching 102
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Responding to COVID-19: How Are the Children?

Digital Promise

For instance, Learning Heroes, a nonprofit organization that equips parents to support learning at home, worked with partner organizations to update The Learning Hero Roadmap , a free K-8 interactive guide with videos and tools to help parents support grade-level math and reading as well as social-emotional development.

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Come for the computers, stay for the books

The Hechinger Report

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. Other paths to tech know-how include a district’s office of information technology and workshops such as those hosted by Future Ready.

Library 111
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Why one Mississippi district ditched textbooks for laptops

The Hechinger Report

He organized professional development for teachers and provided coaches to help teachers learn about and roll out technology in classrooms. Hickman was slowly able to get the community on board as he spoke to families and teachers about the importance of preparing students for a global society where technology use is inevitable.

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A Tiny Microbe Upends Decades of Learning

The Hechinger Report

For example, in New Jersey, the Morris School District’s “virtual learning hub” includes surveys, divided by grade level, that ask parents how things are going (how much help children need from them or older siblings, for example, and whether the resources are easily accessible and the workload seems appropriate).