Digital Promise

JULY 16, 2019

Access to technology for all students is a major goal for many schools, companies, and organizations—yet access is only part of the equation. Once an educational technology (edtech) tool is in a school, the hard work is just beginning due to a number of potential hurdles and challenges that leadership and educators need to overcome.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Coming into my new leadership position, I began to untangle what was happening in classrooms and dove deeper into the promise of edtech and why schools considered it “high-quality.” Teachers Can Change the Way Technology Works for Our Students We have an unprecedented opportunity to flip the script on technology education.

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APRIL 19, 2023

Teaching, as human work, is to show the beauty and complexity of the human experience in our society. With my days long and rigid, this profession hasn’t given me the space to be a balanced, whole human. With my days long and rigid, this profession hasn’t given me the space to be a balanced, whole human.

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AUGUST 12, 2024

I see this as a real opportunity for writing centers to show leadership if they're given an opportunity,” says Sherry Wynn Perdue, president of the International Writing Centers Association. Writing doesn’t have that much meaning without a human audience. AI can serve as a supplement to a human tutor, Mills says.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Despite these benefits, school technology leaders across the country struggle to implement data interoperability in their schools. In the latest State of EdTech Leadership Report from the Consortium for School Network (CoSN), interoperability was identified as one of the largest needs in school districts—second only to cybersecurity.

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JULY 24, 2024

In my classroom, I treat students as humans first, not obstacles to classroom management. I would have felt like my autonomy and humanity were being honored because I would get to advocate for not only the student but myself. We will also let each other down, but we are in the work of being openly human all the time, and that’s okay.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 14, 2025

Because while the primary responsibilities of a classroom teacher involve educating and caring for young children, that work often shifts dramatically at the next level the leadership level to managing staff and operating a small business. Its often so daunting that many educators dont bother to move up.

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MARCH 20, 2024

As a principal, my job is to ensure the physical and psychological safety of every staff member and student in my care — and that includes our leadership team, which is made up of 10 assistant principals who coach and manage teachers. I made someone feel psychologically unsafe? For me, this responsibility goes beyond a job description.

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ED Surge

APRIL 4, 2022

Moreover, for a goal that’s potentially as transformational as the war on cancer or putting a man on the moon, we need a national strategy that counters the inequities embedded in our local-tax-funded educational system, inequities that led to the COVID-19 pandemic disproportionately harming students of color and those from low-income communities.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Two pencils and a school desk he used for drumsticks and a drum: Tuh-tuh-duh-tuh-tuh-duh-tuh-tuh-duh-tuh-tuh-duh-tuh-tuh-duh As educators, we must ask ourselves what we can do within our capacity to co-create a cultural landscape that decenters the white gaze and allows the full breadth of the human experience. This was Black.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 29, 2023

One student candidly shared that he felt like his teachers weren’t invested in him as a human being, because the amount of homework that he was assigned didn't take into account his commitments outside the classroom and other barriers to studying.

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APRIL 26, 2024

This fosters a supportive leadership culture that comprehends campus dynamics and provides enhanced support accordingly. For example, with communication between Human Resources and Finance, they are able to coordinate a quicker backfill strategy, decreasing the time and resources it would take if planning strategies were not set in place.

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APRIL 20, 2022

New research published this week by the Society for Human Resource Management aims to address those questions. But even before an application finds its way to a human, it often has to pass through an automated screening process. How will he or she react to an application that has an alternative credential instead of a college degree?

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JANUARY 6, 2022

School Leaders Take Note: Teacher Care is a Lot More Than Self-Care by Sean Slade “We must stop expecting educators to save themselves and instead start to address the group climate and culture of our schools,” writes school leadership expert Sean Slade. We Need to Make Schools Human Again.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

And the early childhood educators who remain in the field have done so despite low wages, rising inflation and high-stress working conditions. Direct input from early childhood educators is also part of the approach. And a fellowship program for policy and research will also incorporate educator voice. government.

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ED Surge

JULY 19, 2022

The panelists were: Aisha Douglas, an academic dean at Achievement First Brooklyn High School, where she focuses on teacher development and curriculum adaptation in the humanities. The discussion took place during a panel at the ISTE Live conference in New Orleans last month. Deitra Colquitt, co-principal at Pershing Elementary School in St.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Digital credentials, which adhere to open interoperability standards, provide a machine and human-readable way to showcase those skills and make it easier for potential employers to verify those claims. Skills-based credentials are valuable because they state specific skills in which a learner achieved or displayed competence.

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DECEMBER 6, 2023

As an educator, I embrace my classroom as a place of hope and gathering where the students and I come together to grow our empathy and humanity. I use this quote to establish a partnership and direct connection between feminism that seeks the full dignity of women and the Catholic concept of the dignity of the human person.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

But theres also a strong emphasis on what we call human-only skills ethics, creative problem-solving, design thinking and user experience. Infographic] Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science At the start, you really need leadership support and the ability, resources and culture to innovate. Having partnerships is also huge.

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OCTOBER 16, 2024

I learned about the massive scale of labor, human capital and strategic investment that go into making a successful organization. Clearly, there is very little formal growth inherent or possible within teaching, which I believe impacts the retention of a highly skilled and diverse educational workforce.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

It’s human nature to worry, but for some of us, living with and managing anxiety is more complex than just not worrying. Years later, as I enter my fourth year as a school principal, I have come to appreciate my anxiety as a superpower. Having an anxiety disorder is more than just feeling anxious.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 11, 2017

Human trafficking, social anxiety, immigration, gentrification, global citizenship: these are just a few of the immersive experiences produced by high school students in 360 Filmmakers Challenge, designed to inspire the next generation of virtual reality creators. Leadership Competencies for Engaged Learners. Can Students Create VR?

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NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Some of the students were quick to step into leadership roles and tell their classmates, “Okay, guys, this is how you join a group.” The science activity Human Eye in McGraw Hill AR My job is to facilitate and learn beside them. We need students to see our excitement about learning new tools.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2022

An Obligation to Change Marching on is not the solution, even though leadership wishes it was. This puts educators at extreme risk of unnecessary stress, burnout, and in some cases, leaving the profession altogether. I am human, and I deserve to be treated as such. Teaching is always hard, but it doesn’t have to be this hard.

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MAY 23, 2022

By hearing educators’ stories, Kang says, she will be in a better position to share them and promote greater awareness and understanding. What came through in interviews was her human-centered approach. McClain Terrell calls it an “extraordinary time for early childhood education.”)

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AUGUST 2, 2023

In a world that has denied my humanity, literature has offered affirmation, consolation and direction. As a reader, I use Black literature as a tool to reclaim my humanity, my history and my future. As an educator, I present Black literature to readers as a tool for their own liberation.

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OCTOBER 2, 2024

I set my sights on leadership roles. I am now a teacher who models for my students the importance of embracing their humanity, feeling confident in their identity, and celebrating their accomplishments without fear of judgment. I believed that the key to avoiding this fate was to focus on growth and impact.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 31, 2023

We have to take care of the human being who is holding it together — or it’s all gonna crash. There are people in leadership who support teachers with academics, but their phone calls or Zoom are [reserved for] just new teachers crying their eyes out with how overwhelmed they are,” Thomas says.

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DECEMBER 11, 2023

They also spoke about the difference that supportive leadership made. How having dedicated time and resources to participate in these communities helped them prioritize their own continued development as educators of color and served to further ground them in the profession.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 8, 2023

Her takeaway: Fights over control of school leadership, including a takeover of Philadelphia schools by the state legislature in 2001, are more about politics than about improving education. And the people who need schooling the most to make social mobility possible still get shafted, essentially.” Royal welcomes the comparisons. “We

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DECEMBER 6, 2023

Sachdeva transitioned from consulting with the Boston Consulting Group to developing solutions for early childhood education. He aspired to make high-quality education financially viable and scalable for a broader system. We also try to ensure that we're 50% female, including in leadership positions.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 15, 2023

Then, during the height of the pandemic and before our return to in-person instruction, an opportunity arose to apply for a school leadership position and I seized it. My leadership team and I asked ourselves what conditions needed to be set in order for each staff member and each student to feel seen, heard and valued within our community.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2023

That’s according to Matt Townsley, an assistant professor of educational leadership at the University of Northern Iowa, who has written books about changing grading systems and who has helped schools switch to standards-based systems. Students will find that, and they’ll game the system. They want to skate by.”

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Shuck is a professor of human resource and organizational development at the University of Louisville and co-founder of the start-up OrgVitals. It is often not the big fanfare, not the big program, not the big platform, not the human resource movement, although those things are necessary at times. I call this the cumulative principle.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

In another school, I had conflicting values with leadership. As we sit with the weight of this reality and validate the experiences of the teachers who left, we must also remember, and humanize the experiences of the teachers and students who stayed. My teaching career has been turbulent. I’ve worked in six schools in seven years.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Julio Vazquez, director of instruction and human resources at North Salem, emphasizes the importance of this effort: “We are working to build our capacity in teaching CT to fully integrate computing in all grade levels and across multiple subject areas. The course first supports district leaders in assembling a leadership team.

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MAY 2, 2022

Taken to the extreme, when edtech willfully makes product decisions that are not in the best interest of educators and their students, it only serves to contribute to the brokenness of a system that too often fails at providing the basic human right of education to learners across the world.

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