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OPINION: Want to improve our public schools? Create an impressive principal pipeline

The Hechinger Report

The pandemic also made it impossible to ignore the inequities faced by Black and Latino students — such as limited access to digital resources, rigorous coursework and skilled educators. However, one of our greatest potential solutions is often missed in the national conversation: providing professional development for principals.

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

Digital Promise

Edtech and Professional Development. Provide high-quality teacher professional development in selecting and using edtech that is inclusive of all learners and encourage teacher input and ownership of the edtech they use in their classrooms.

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Budgeting Basics: How to Manage Saving and Spending

ACRE

Download Budgeting Basics Resources for Digital Classrooms: Do you use an online learning system for your classroom? If you’ve developed your own lessons and activities for teaching personal finance (or any other social studies topic) consider sharing your ideas on the Social Studies Arkansas blog.

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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

Chun’s district is at the forefront of a national movement to turn K-12 librarians into indispensable digital mavens who can help classroom teachers craft tech-savvy lesson plans, teach kids to think critically about online research, and remake libraries into lively, high-tech hubs of collaborative learning — while still helping kids get books.

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Want Your Teachers to See Great Teaching? Quickly Build a Teaching Video Library

Edthena

Forget scouring YouTube and welcome to your district’s secure video library hosted by Edthena, where you can curate model teaching videos to your professional development heart’s content. Support professional learning and school initiatives with a library of teaching videos.

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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.