Digital Promise

JUNE 18, 2019

In some cases, technology decisions are made by school leadership in-step with a plan developed with educators and an accompanying budget. In others, there is a tremendous lack of funding, poor technology planning, and a leadership vacuum that creates huge barriers to effective technology integration. What is driving this new purchase?

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Last fall, nearly six and a half years after my SMART board was fixed, I started a new job and became a deeper learning coordinator, leading the implementation and creation of an edtech ecosystem for the entire Reynoldsburg school district. Despite the money spent, our students have yet to recover from the learning loss.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 18, 2022

For more information on leveraging edtech to accelerate learning, as well as comparisons between leading tools, see the Accelerate Learning Kits from K-12 Blueprint, or visit Microsoft Education. Las Cruces Public Schools is maximizing technology to increase equity and accessibility for all students. Yet, this is only a starting point.

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ED Surge

MARCH 8, 2023

When teachers pack up their classrooms for the last time to start their edtech careers, where exactly are they going? Former educators told us they had moved on to become UX designers, part of sales teams and founders of their own edtech companies. Edtech is not going to be the solution for every teacher,” she says.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

They do this by mapping courses and activities to institutional competencies: critical thinking, analytical thinking, communication, social awareness and responsibility, creativity and innovation, and leadership and collaboration. “We

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 24, 2020

Have you ever checked out the website for an edtech product only to close your computer knowing less about the product than when you started? This common experience illuminates how challenging it can be for educational technology (edtech) companies to communicate what they do and why it is important. The Missing Piece: Logic Models.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 2, 2023

Do you have any free project based EdTech tools that you love? This is a failure of leadership. Leadership Day 2010 – The final list! Flawed, ideological, non-peer-reviewed studies should not rebut decades of anti-retention research. All of that to say, what would you use this time for? to do this important work.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 9, 2025

Our top post of the entire year was a vulnerable essay about an administrators leadership failure and how he made things right. School administrator Sarah Wright shares her thoughts on a trauma-informed approach to leadership. Are Schools and Edtech Companies Ready for the Digital Accessibility Deadline?

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ED Surge

APRIL 26, 2022

Equipped with a set of tech skills gained from pandemic remote learning and the rise of technology in teaching generally, current teachers are making a huge career pivot into edtech or other education organizations. Teachers can lead, design, manage, mediaite, facilitate, guide, research, write and so much more.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

And the list included an interview with a Nobel prize winner about his research to improve science instruction; a set of reader responses to our coverage of “math wars”; and a look at what’s keeping teachers from embracing edtech. What's Really Getting in the Way of Teachers Embracing Edtech?

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Edthena

AUGUST 2, 2022

This past month, we’ve been reading about student voice and edtech choice, both important to intentionally incorporate into your classroom this fall. With adult scaffolding, the student leadership team distributed climate surveys to other students and staff and helped younger children fill out their forms. Listening with Care.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 6, 2022

But Jeff Bezos is known for playing the long game, and public education is very much part of it, opines Dominik Dresel, a school administrator and edtech entrepreneur. “I The Next Wave of Edtech Will Be Very, Very Big — and Global by Betsy Corcoran Braced for the next wave of edtech? Then, Public Education. It will be big.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 11, 2017

Every day at Digital Promise, we work with leading educators, researchers, and developers across the country to help close the Digital Learning Gap and improve learning for all. 100,000 Pyramid: Maker Research Edition. Interested in the latest research in maker education, but don’t want to sit through a boring panel?

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 13, 2018

With that in mind, we invite you to help us tell our stories at SXSW EDU 2019 to spread the word on topics like learner variability, educator micro-credentials, immersive storytelling with 360° technology, maker learning, edtech pilots, data interoperability, and more. Empowering Educator Voice through Edtech Pilots.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 24, 2021

While state- and district-level leaders are investing in technology solutions to help their schools recover and meet students where they are, the problem is that not all edtech products are created equal. We must invest in teachers by funding technology solutions proven to meet their needs and improve student learning.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2017

“We don’t know who is choosing it and who is pulling the strings,” said Luis (known as Adrian) Manzano-Anzures, a student at Warren, Michigan’s Macomb Community College, who spoke last month on a panel at EduCon 2.9 , an annual conference about education and technology at Philadelphia’s Science Leadership Academy, a public magnet school.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 2, 2018

Which strategies and tools can ground our work in equity, increase edtech efficacy, and develop stronger networks? Discussions on edtech efficacy. EdClusters18 also showcased strategies and tools for improving the research-based practices educators use in schools – and the role EdCluster leaders can play in supporting and scaling them.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Support for learning that is evidence-based, using the best available research for student learning. Looking at emerging edtech trends relative to DEI, we need to understand how accessibility is being addressed (or not) and provide strategies to help ensure that it is prioritized. Identify and achieve your DEI goals.

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ED Surge

JUNE 21, 2022

Under these considerations, the impact of technology on teaching and learning hasn’t been lost on university leaders, researchers say. These sorts of investments are expensive—a new cloud-based administration system, for example, can run a large research university tens of millions of dollars —and they take time to put in place.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Mahajan, who was part of national leadership at the Self-Employed Women's Association , noted that her interest in early childhood education stemmed from the perspective of motherhood, through which she recognized the importance of quality childcare for women's labor force participation and economic empowerment.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 28, 2024

Prieur began his career as a high school English teacher in Palm Beach County, Florida, before transitioning to a school-level administrator role for six and a half years, during which he earned his doctorate in educational leadership. Neurological research shows that how children feel about their learning matters.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 13, 2017

Like many other districts in the League of Innovative Schools, our team at Bristol Warren Regional School District (BWRSD) has a firm understanding of best practice and current research. Our journey began in the Fall of 2015 with the convening of a Future Ready Leadership Team representing a cross-section of school and district leaders.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 10, 2018

To address these challenges, we need to understand how they are experienced in different settings—from small, rural districts to large, urban districts—and we need to learn from educators and researchers who are working to solve these issues. Introducing the Challenge Map. College & Career Readiness.

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Edthena

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Steve Ventura, author of multiple books including “Engaged Instruction: Thriving Classrooms in the Age of Common Core,” knows the research-backed strategies for how to do it more effectively. What really good leaders do is they learn with teachers,” Steve Ventura said about what the research shows.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 19, 2022

Research and development partnerships are also up. That triggered a vote of no confidence in the university leadership. Universities are most interested in offering telehealth and mental health services, the survey found. To some experts, these trends aren’t surprising. “It

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Edthena

OCTOBER 29, 2021

“Push” PD , by contrast, is a remnant of old command-and-control models of leadership, in which a few smart people make most decisions and then put systems in place to push people to implement them. Research from Brown University’s EdResearch for Recovery offers several remedies. So, what can educators do about it?

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 12, 2016

#EdClusters16 brought more than 140 leading educators, ed-tech entrepreneurs, funders, researchers, and thought leaders to collaborate, work, and learn together. Support Research for Education Innovation. LearnLaunch has graduated 31 #edtech companies and has 120 mentors. Research for Education Innovation. I1mpx8eK7B.

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Edthena

MARCH 6, 2020

Upon commencing our research for our first book Performance is Key , we relied on our professional journey along with effective schools research and models for continuous improvement. By investing in collaborative leadership strategies, leaders can shift their organization’s internal dynamics to one of continuous improvement.

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Edthena

AUGUST 13, 2021

Since 2011, Adam has overseen the evolution of Edthena from a paper-based prototype into a research informed and patented platform used by schools districts, teacher training programs, and professional development providers. Listen to this Edtech Today episode or watch other interviews with education leaders at PLtogether. .

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Edthena

AUGUST 29, 2022

a short passage from a chapter, an Educational Leadership article, a summary of a research paper, or an optional book study). For Amanda Morin, an educator and director of thought leadership at Understood.org, that means the best course of action is to short-circuit your own reflexes when you can. Look Behind the Behavior. “We

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Edthena

MARCH 9, 2021

Literacy and leadership expert, Doug Fisher, published The Distance Learning Playbook with co-authors Nancy Frey and John Hattie to guide teachers through research to understand what works best with distance learning to support students. .

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Edthena

MARCH 11, 2022

And check out this blog post for research-backed insight into what teachers can do to create a positive classroom environment. There are many strategic and intentional moves school leaders can take to create the type of environment they want for their school, teachers, and students. Hear more of our conversations with Principal Sarah Martin.

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Edthena

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

And here are resources for teachers from Harvard researcher Heather Hill about approaches for positive classroom environments , which have a great impact on teacher well-being. . Curate spaces for students at all readiness levels to take a leadership role at some point. 3 resources for teachers to help students build empathy skills.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 12, 2020

Following nationwide protests over the death of George Floyd and others at the hands of police, I have received a slew of emails from edtech companies containing statements of solidarity and inclusion, explaining that the company supports diversity and does not tolerate racism. Fellow white educators: this is our edtech moment.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

But, states and districts often lack information about which edtech works, according to Bart Epstein, president and CEO of the nonprofit, EdTech Evidence Exchange. That is, there is little information about what edtech works, where it works and in which contexts. The EdTech Genome Project released its final report this summer.

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ED Surge

JUNE 23, 2022

That’s mostly because the research and evaluation necessary to find out hasn’t been conducted. It may well be that many of the 9,000 or so edtech products on the market work just as intended. It was always important to base our product design on research and user feedback.” It is not a high bar.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 15, 2022

From time to time, Jeff Livingston gets a call from an entrepreneur looking for advice about getting into the edtech market. As founder of the Center for Education Market Dynamics, Livingston has spent the better part of two decades thinking about how to get edtech innovations to the students who need them most.

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