A Principal's Reflections

MAY 5, 2024

As I engage with districts and schools regularly, they frequently inquire about ways to gauge the outcomes and efficacy of their innovative strategies, such as BYOD, 1:1, blended and personalized learning, classroom and school redesign, branding, makerspaces, and professional development.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 13, 2012

You can find more information about TAP here. Hopefully we will see other education programs will develop similar apps like this. apps education reform educational technology' Recently the organization announced the creation of a TAP “app” called the tapObserver app.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 21, 2016

In Uncommon Learning I provide insight into Laura Fleming’s pioneering work in this area with the simple premise of acknowledging the informal learning that many educators now engage in on a daily basis. Micro-credentials can be used to guide, motivate, and validate informal learning.

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 28, 2011

Other major responsibilities include evaluations, budget preparation, development of action plans, mentoring, and professional development. In 140 characters or less I can communicate with stakeholders by sharing useful information ( @NewMilfordHS ) for free! If I find value in the information, I retweet it.

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 14, 2012

For more information on this event check out the summary provided by ISTE. As a social studies teacher, being asked to take a professional development trip to Washington DC is an extremely exciting offer. 21st Century Teaching educational technology New Milford High School Nicolette Perna Rebecca Millan'

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

She knew she had to prepare herself for what may come, so she thought back on what she had learned during her initial Verizon Innovative Learning Schools learning experiences and began diving into every professional development and certification opportunity she could find. “I

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Digital Promise

MAY 21, 2019

Our goal is to share results and use the findings to inform efforts to ensure all students have powerful learning experiences. Seeing greater learner variability, both between students and across subjects, also predicts support for the use of education technology (edtech). Key findings from our survey.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 11, 2020

Similarly, a majority of respondents reported that their school and/or district leaders reached out to them more frequently than before because of the shift to remote learning, and that district leaders understood the value of technology as an avenue for providing equitable learning opportunities. Preparing for the new school year.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Digital Promise first launched our Micro-credential Policy Map in January 2020 to share valuable information on how states and districts across the U.S. States are continuing to develop policies and guidelines to support districts looking to leverage micro-credentials for professional learning.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 18, 2023

It's another thing to actually provide time and space for educators to explore.” ISTE has made this viewpoint a priority, offering professional development and resources that focus on learning about and effectively integrating AI , including a guide for school leaders and a teacher course. Graham Glass In May 2023, the U.S.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

It is essential for educators to tap into professional development (PD) opportunities to advance their understanding of how to use AI to improve the classroom experience. Even the AI tools that are trained using the same information could still give unique results! I ask students, “Could AI be trained on bad information?

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ED Surge

MAY 1, 2024

Collaboration and open dialogue are key as we navigate this terrain, ensuring innovation meets the needs of today's educational institutions. When building up edtech resources for any learning environment, whether it be a K-12 school district, institution of higher education or professional development, there is a lot to consider.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Educators, particularly those entering the field with insufficient training or experience, need immediate access to job-embedded and asynchronous professional development that they can access easily and on their own schedule. We must invest in our teachers. similar method exists for reading.

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Digital Promise

MAY 13, 2021

Online Teaching, Technology, and Learner Variability : Teachers with a high degree of comfort with technology are significantly less likely than others to say the pandemic has worsened their ability to work with each student’s individual learner variability. Edtech and Professional Development.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

The resulting insights can then be shared with all actors — instructors, mentors and learners — enabling them to make informed decisions about the learner’s next steps toward their goal. How can we use this performative-based assessment approach in education? Other sectors’ assessment practices can inform new approaches in education.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 18, 2023

She recognizes that tools must align to teachers’ instructional goals and must be accompanied by professional development that covers not just how individual tools function, but also how they fit into effective teaching practice. “I I need to reiterate with my teachers that the tech tool itself isn't the be all, end all,” Ballard said.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Through working with thousands of teachers and designing hundreds of instructional models, all with the intention of changing what teaching and learning looks like to provide for a more personalized experience, Education Elements identified four core elements that should exist in every personalized learning environment.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Being equipped and ready to respond when students experience a traumatic event must be a top priority for every educator in America. Unfortunately, it is not a universally required part of educator training or professional development. This is more urgent than ever. more than doubled between 2018 and 2022.

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ED Surge

MARCH 14, 2024

The way that they learn is so individualized, the way that their brain takes in information — they all have a personal assistant in their pocket that gives them information,” Robert says. The kids are struggling to do things without technology.” It’s not so much the planning time that it’s taking.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2017

The stereotypical library can seem like a vestige, making it an easy target when budgets are tight, according to Mark Ray, Vancouver’s director of innovation and library services, “but we want libraries to be the lynchpin of education transformation.” based education advocacy group. “It

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 11, 2022

To advance socially responsible social reading, instructors and administrators must adopt technologies with care. Thus, we contend that educational technologies, from publisher-provided textbook platforms to default learning management system discussion forums, risk making social reading more about compliance and less about learning.

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ED Surge

MARCH 1, 2023

At the beginning of this school year, I facilitated a professional development (PD) session with middle school teachers about how to use education technology tools for deeper learning. Our inquiry not only shifted my focus from learning history to becoming a historian, but it also shifted my identity.

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ED Surge

JUNE 19, 2024

Inclusive Design Inclusive design in educational technology is crucial to ensure that all students, regardless of their abilities or backgrounds, have equal access to learning opportunities. Choose tools that offer customizable settings, allowing teachers to adjust the difficulty level and content to meet the needs of their students.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 26, 2024

Those are vital questions for education technology innovators as they build ventures, secure funding and expand their impact. Catalyst @ Penn GSE, a global center for education innovation at the University of Pennsylvania, is passionate about supporting education entrepreneurs. If you build it, will it work?

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ED Surge

APRIL 19, 2024

She notes that the partnership aims to avoid “parachuting,” the phenomenon when large research institutions extract information from communities that have fewer resources or fail to tap into local expertise. As we exchange information, that's also going both ways, right. It's an opportunity for us.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

As I learned more about the attributes of the youngest generation, I began to think about the implications for educators. I’ve spent two decades as a literacy specialist coaching teachers and providing professional development and I’ve seen a lot of transition in the field.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 13, 2018

But she said professional development and support are essential, too. There are few high-quality purveyors of whole curricula to begin with, she said, and “most curriculum developers don’t embed professional development and support” in their programs. And they’re lacking.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

. — Richard Culatta The urgency of such educational initiatives is underscored by a Pew Research Survey revealing that 44 percent of adults aged 18 to 49 report they are online almost constantly. Informed is about gathering credible information to process what you see online. So we shifted our strategy.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 22, 2024

To address family concerns on both sides, the school shared information about the benefits of formal bilingual education. For rural school districts inexperienced in providing multilingual education, said Hansen-Thomas, professional development is the place to begin.

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ED Surge

JULY 31, 2023

The right team, professional development and buy-in are essential to transformative digital learning, according to leaders of some of the largest K–12 school districts in the U.S. To achieve this, Carrozza's district is streamlining platforms, tools and curriculum choices to develop a unified digital learning ecosystem.

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ED Surge

MARCH 8, 2023

For the technically inclined, pivoting to a job in the education technology industry seems like a natural fit. Hillary Robbins, who spent 10 years as an elementary and middle school teacher in Texas, says she scoured the internet for information on making the jump to edtech before making any moves.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

As access to technology becomes increasingly commonplace in schools, discrepancies continue to emerge concerning not whether technology is being used, but how it is being used. New rubric guides classroom technology use. The rubric includes a total of six indicators of impactful technology use. References. Hixson, N.

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ED Surge

MAY 5, 2023

When her children moved to the next grade, we met with their new teachers to share background information to build continuity of support. Teacher induction involves components such as mentoring, professional development and coaching for those entering the field.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Joseph Mancuso , Superintendent of Eastern York School District , and Michael Calvert , Director of Elementary Education at South Allegheny School District. Their Pennsylvania districts are using real-time data to inform instruction, foster student ownership of learning and support teachers in meeting the varied needs of their students.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Bringing my perspective as a young professional to a high school, I have been endlessly frustrated with the disparity between what I want and am inspired to accomplish and what the system allows me to reasonably get out of any effort I put in. In the many fractured systems that make up the overall U.S.

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ED Surge

APRIL 17, 2023

percent — also used session recorders, which are known to capture sensitive information like keystrokes. Previous studies of policies around student information have revealed that edtech companies often don’t disclose their data practices. But what should educators do? The researchers also note that many sites — 7.4

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Edthena

DECEMBER 1, 2017

A new book aims to help educators successfully make and implement a plan for using video-based learning as part of the classroom observation and professional development process.

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