Digital Promise

MARCH 3, 2015

As instruction becomes increasingly personalized for students, teachers are ready for those same principles to drive their on-going professional development. "Teachers If we focus on learning and development, teachers know where they need to go." The need and demand for personalized professional development is growing.

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TCI

OCTOBER 15, 2024

With schools facing the challenges of remote learning, different learning styles, and changing dynamics, video teaching strategies have become an important tool for teachers. While watching videos can be passive, video teaching strategies engage students in active learning.

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Edthena

DECEMBER 27, 2023

In the News In a recent article, Edutopia explored the potential of AI in revolutionizing teaching practices particularly through the lens of AI-powered instructional coaching. This innovative approach to professional learning is changing how educators refine their skills and teaching practices.

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Living Geography

APRIL 7, 2024

There is a considered critique of a number of concepts and theories in education, as well as some of the traditional ways of 'doing things'. What role might geography teaching play? It's a very readable book which belies the scholarship underpinning its arguments - which are set out with admirable clarity.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

When Steven Chan founded Goodnotes, he was a student at the time, and so his commitment to understanding the teaching and learning experiences of the community he built was essential to his mission, which is to revolutionize the way ideas are shaped and amplified. Remove grading for non-end-of-year assessment work.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Students can be excellent little actors in a traditional classroom, going through the motions of “ studenting ,” but not learning much. That’s the argument of Peter Liljedahl, a professor of mathematics education at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, who has spent years researching what works in teaching. How did that go?

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ED Surge

MARCH 28, 2022

This work requires a depth of discipline and perseverance from our students that can at times be difficult to foster within the limits of traditional instruction. The white picket fence, two kids, and the traditional nine-to-five workday are quickly losing their appeal. The American Dream no longer exists as Gen Xers know it to be.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2016

This past summer, I had the opportunity to observe district leaders, teachers, and university supervisors from TeachOregon’s Salem-Keiser Teacher Preparation Collaborative as they trained new mentor teachers in the effective co-teaching of new residents. Third, there’s teaching quality. Planning is the second theme that loomed large.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 16, 2022

What am I teaching today? With a to-do list this long, do I even have time to teach? “I This is how the last year of teaching went for me. Teachers have been accosted with endless professional development training, increased testing, and frequent surveys. I was always completing tasks for other people.

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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 The post COLUMN: Want teachers to teach climate change?

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

This content goes far beyond traditional formats like film, television and print because it isn’t static; it’s both immersive and interactive. Teach for Tomorrow’s Job Market Many parents want their children to study computer science. Yet, in the United States, just over half of high schools actually teach it. Need a hand?

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ED Surge

MARCH 7, 2023

There’s a growing market for the convenience, accurate feedback and interaction that voice-based AI reading tools provide, due to the unprecedented fall in NAEP reading scores across the country coupled with mounting concerns about modern strategies for teaching literacy.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

One of the best parts about job-embedded, on-going work with school districts is facilitating a variety of professional learning opportunities. They have utilized me as a keynoter, coach (leadership and teaching), and workshop presenter. Below you will see the specific tools I provided during each session.

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Cult of Pedagogy

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Teaching is intense, vulnerable work. We can look at student data and try new instructional strategies all day long, but until we learn to navigate all of these complex feelings, the work of improving our teaching will always be limited at best. What’s the difference between Amazon and Bookshop.org? The school’s out of control.

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Studies Weekly

APRIL 29, 2024

Teaching about Asian Pacific American Heritage Month April 29, 2024 • Studies Weekly Asian Pacific American Heritage Month is a great opportunity to incorporate culturally responsive teaching into students’ learning experience. They helped shape our country into what it is today.

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Edthena

MARCH 31, 2020

Educators who were expecting to teach in classrooms in Beijing, China, are now teaching virtual classes remotely from their homes. Asynchronous Teaching. The international team teaches using the learning management system Moodle. During the first few weeks, patience and flexibility was a necessity. Teacher Support.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Half of the students in those levels were randomly assigned to learn together, and half remained in their traditional tracks so that researchers could compare the difference. Better teachers might have volunteered to teach them. These teachers had extra training, and were given an extra non-teaching period each day.

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Edthena

MAY 29, 2024

According to Dr. David Baker, Professional Development Coordinator for St. Impact of AI coaching on teacher performance AI Coach significantly amplified the district’s professional development capacity. Can AI coaching help districts provide timely instructional coaching for all teachers? By leveraging AI, St.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

We should innovate to leverage emerging technology, getting data back at nearly the speed of teaching and learning. How can assessment data effectively inform instructional decisions and support professional development for educators? This allows everyone, including the learner, to make the best data-based decisions possible.

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 25, 2020

Now is not the time to revert back to traditional observation and evaluation protocols because, quite frankly, they will not result in improved outcomes. Others are seeing their administrators offer their time and that of other non-teaching staff members. The majority of educators fall into the latter.

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Edthena

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

That means they have come from non-traditional educational backgrounds and that meant these new teachers were going to need more instructional coaching cycles than traditionally trained teachers. Teachers can upload videos, interact with Edie, and analyze their teaching techniques all on their own.

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ED Surge

MARCH 20, 2024

Teaching creativity and creative thinking in K-12 has always been valued but often challenging to implement. Many standards and curricula don’t call out creativity explicitly, and teachers aren’t often trained on how to teach and assess creative thinking. How would you respond to that?

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Edthena

AUGUST 24, 2021

Building more content knowledge is often the go-to for teacher professional development, especially during back-to-school season. Heather Hill, a researcher at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, says to skip the PD that’s focused solely on developing new content knowledge. The findings were surprising.

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Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 10, 2022

Teaching has always been a demanding profession, but this school year takes the cake! I’d argue that the answer is , in part, giving them the permission and tools to rethink traditional workflows. Second, I want students to develop into expert learners capable of sharing the responsibility for learning.

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Edthena

JANUARY 9, 2024

He explained that AI Coach by Edthena , acts more like a facilitative guide than a directive coach, empowering educators to reflect and grow professionally on their own terms. By facilitating deeper self-reflection of classroom teaching, AI Coach empowers teachers to observe and analyze their own practices.

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Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

My reading regularly inspires my blogs, books, teaching, and work with educators. This year, traditional approaches to professional development may feel daunting because teachers are spread thin due to substitute shortages and the challenges associated with returning to physical classrooms.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 30, 2019

The same can be said about drive-by professional development. When it is all said and done, the best experiences are ongoing and job-embedded so that the needed support, application into practice, feedback, and accountability for growth lead to actual changes to teaching, learning, and leadership.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 10, 2024

Additionally, we have developed a set of principles and capacities aligned to each tenet to create the conditions for mutually beneficial engagement. Because they are designed by those experiencing barriers to teaching and learning, they reflect how educators can support students' needs.

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 3, 2017

Traditional Grading Practices and Homework There is a great deal of research out there that supports changes to how educators grade and the use of homework. How will you work to improve professional learning in your school or district? Will you challenge the status quo to improve the educational experience for your learners?

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 5, 2018

However, there is another significant impediment to change that doesn’t get as much focus as it should and that is tradition. Tradition, combined with the comfort of the status quo, forms a plausible excuse for not changing. To create a thriving culture , some hard battles against tradition need to be fought.

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Edthena

OCTOBER 2, 2024

This innovative approach not only streamlines the coaching process but also deepens the quality of feedback, ultimately leading to more effective professional development and improved teaching practices. To learn more about how you can transform your school’s professional development efforts, contact our team today.

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 16, 2018

To capitalize on this energy, most school districts organize mandatory professional development opportunities for teachers designed to teach them a new teaching strategy or introduce them to a new piece of technology. Without support, it is easy to abandon a new teaching technique, strategy, or technology tool.

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TCI

OCTOBER 15, 2024

While watching videos can be passive, activities that effectively use video teaching strategies engage students in active learning. By leveraging video teaching strategies, educators can actively engage students, using videos as a powerful learning tool. A static textbook or lecture is often insufficient to capture their attention.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 23, 2022

Based on the assessment system I use, many of my students were reading at a level between kindergarten and second grade, which is not ideal, given that I teach high schoolers. In my classroom, I usually teach English language arts in 70-minute blocks. To be clear, I don’t see John’s progress as a reflection of my teaching.

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ED Surge

JULY 10, 2024

Ethan, a high school junior studying to become a secondary history teacher in our Academy for Teaching and Learning, was presenting findings from his extensive research to the staff at our school. The population of students I serve as a teacher in our Academy for Teaching and Learning are interested in pursuing a career in education.

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Rosie the History Teacher

JULY 31, 2020

Many teachers have unexpectedly gotten a taste of teaching online in the past few months due to the Covid-19 pandemic. As the 2020-2021 school year approaches, many teachers are still unsure whether they will be in their classrooms with students or logging on for more virtual teaching. Temperature control.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 27, 2021

Our goal was to try and parse out What do leaders at innovative schools do that is different from their counterparts in more traditional schools ? As you might imagine, we saw some fantastic leading, teaching, and learning. Teacher professional development isn’t typically decided by administrators.

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