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How Digital Tools Improve Teaching and Learning

A Principal's Reflections

Adapted from an article I co-authored, Real-World Ready: Leveraging Digital Tools Digital tools are transforming essential elements of the education space. Understanding how they are impacting teaching and learning will help guide your consideration of which tools are useful and how to best implement them.

Teaching 419
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Cultivating Lifelong Learners: How to Support Personalized Teacher Growth

A Principal's Reflections

This allows you to tailor professional learning opportunities that address specific skill gaps, teaching styles, and career goals (Guskey, 2000). Embrace Choice and Variety Move away from the traditional "sit-and-get" PD model. Offer teachers a diverse menu of learning opportunities.

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Common Misconceptions of Educators Who Fear Technology

A Principal's Reflections

Education is currently at a crossroads as traditional methods and tools are changing as a result of advances in technology and learning theory. We are beginning to see some schools across the country take the lead in merging sound pedagogy with the effective integration of technology.

Education 378
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Diving Deeper into Personalized Learning

A Principal's Reflections

Personalization is the future of education because it recognizes that every student is unique, with distinct learning preferences, paces, and goals. This approach shifts away from the traditional one-size-fits-all model, allowing students to learn at their own rhythm and delve deeper into concepts that pique their interest.

K-12 352
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The Truly Flipped Classroom

A Principal's Reflections

Several years ago, two high school chemistry teachers from Colorado shifted their teaching practice dramatically. Whereas the traditional classroom has been very teacher-centered, the use of 1:1 technology allows for a much more student-centered classroom. educational technology Opinion'

Tradition 314
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A Needed Revolution

A Principal's Reflections

Josh articulates how teachers have to be ready and willing to change the way they think about teaching to be able to effectively work with this new generation of learners. Education needs a revolution of ideas, pedagogy, and the very way in which we talk about teaching and learning.

Pedagogy 269
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A New Endeavor (#TSETC)

A Principal's Reflections

So many exciting things have happened recently as a result of my own learning and growth in educational technology and leadership. Forming partnerships are an extremely important aspect of educational leadership. The other day I was talking to a friend of mine who teaches in another part of New Jersey.