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How to Choose High-Quality Social Studies Instructional Materials for Your District

TCI

Digital Components: Many providers offer online platforms or digital resources to supplement print materials. Teacher Support Materials: Lesson plans, pacing guides, and professional development resources are often included. All teachers receive HQIM professional development.

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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. Step 3 : The data and evidence are tightly aligned to research-based rubrics to provide a detailed view of where a district or school is with its transformation.

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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

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. Edtech and Professional 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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Challenges Facing Edtech Procurement and Possible Solutions: Part 2

Digital Promise

In support of this process, Digital Promise created the Edtech Pilot Framework , which provides a multitude of free tools to help you in your edtech purchasing journey. Numerous resources exist to help end-users search potential products. Start with a Needs Assessment to Prioritize Students when Purchasing Edtech.

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Responding to COVID-19: How Are the Children?

Digital Promise

Organizations and coalitions including Learning Keeps Going , Tech for Learners , Google , and Digital Promise have also compiled lists of resources from various education organizations as well as available edtech products. Bridging The Digital Divide. It also includes digital access and quality online learning opportunities.

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