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Measuring Impact with the Digital Practice Assessment (DPA)

A Principal's Reflections

During this reflective process, it is expected that school leadership teams collect and document aligned evidence for each item. During the strategic planning process, discussions focus on areas of strength and improvements to develop a tailored and personalized implementation plan.

Archiving 359
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Quantifying Innovative Practices

A Principal's Reflections

School leadership teams are expected to collect and document aligned evidence for each item during this reflective process. During the strategic planning process, discussions focus on areas of strength and improvements to develop a tailored and personalized implementation plan.

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The Growing Potential of Micro-Credentials

A Principal's Reflections

As technology convergence and integration continues to increase generally in our society, it is paramount that teachers possess the skills and behaviors of digital-age professionals. Educators should be comfortable teaching, working, and learning in an increasingly connected global digital society.

Pedagogy 230
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Guest Post: The Missing Piece: What Most Edtech Companies Need & Only a Few Have

Digital Promise

This common experience illuminates how challenging it can be for educational technology (edtech) companies to communicate what they do and why it is important. When schools interview a candidate for a teaching position, they ask for a lesson plan that makes clear what the teacher is doing in a demo lesson and why.

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Are Schools and Edtech Companies Ready for the Digital Accessibility Deadline?

ED Surge

His ambitions to learn were thwarted because his teacher had assigned handouts and a three-week-long lesson plan that relied on a website that wasn’t easy for him to navigate. Ticking Clock Under the new guidelines, digital text, images, audio, videos, documents, controls and animations must meet a series of “ success criteria.”

EdTech 143
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AI Guidelines for K-12 Aim to Bring Order to the ‘Wild West’

ED Surge

Ken Dirkin, senior director of the Michigan Virtual Learning Research Institute, said the group wanted to create a document that was digestible, but “there’s probably 40,000 important things that could have been included.” It’s not just student use of AI that needs to be considered.

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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.