The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2024

To help them succeed, the school — which last year served just over 500 high schoolers , roughly 80 percent of whom qualified for free or reduced priced lunch — provides its teachers with daily professional development and coaching on literacy instruction and other topics.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 15, 2021

With our partners, Instructional Coaching Group , Heza LLC, and SRI International, our team will design, implement, and evaluate a school-based, one-to-one teacher coaching program to improve the quality of middle school mathematics instruction through meaningful use of technology.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2023

This story also appeared in Mind/Shift This summer, teachers around the country are planning these lessons and more, in professional development programs designed to answer a pressing need: preparing teachers to teach about the climate crisis and empower students to act. “I Related: Climate change: Are we ready?

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 27, 2019

As Zach Desjarlais, Director of Instructional Technology at Vancouver Public Schools (VPS) , puts it, “If there’s a need, a gap, or something to fill, we’d like that to be identified by data. Ask about the learning sciences research used to design and build edtech products. In what context were these studies conducted?

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 11, 2017

Through this work, we see powerful examples of innovation across education — from students creating their own virtual reality (VR) films, to researchers working with technology developers to improve edtech efficacy, to educators rethinking their own professional development with the use of micro-credentials.

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ED Surge

APRIL 4, 2022

Spread across more than 40 individual buildings, Rockford Public Schools is the third largest school district in Illinois. Here, she explains how Course of Mind: ISTE’s learning sciences initiative factors into that ambitious plan. EdSurge: Why did you enroll in the Launch into Learning Sciences course ?

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ED Surge

APRIL 25, 2022

Caldwell County Schools is a mid-sized public school district in northwestern North Carolina. Here, she explains how Course of Mind is helping her district strategically incorporate learning technology into their curriculum. EdSurge: What led you to enroll in the Launch into Learning Sciences course ?

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