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Characteristics of The 21st Century Teachers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

When teachers engage in this collaborative culture, they share best practices, develop interdisciplinary projects, and contribute to professional learning communities, leading to more innovative teaching strategies and cohesive learning environments. Madda et al., 2011, Nurmi et al., 2013; Parsons, 2012; Vaughn, 2015, ).

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Creating a Vision for Your School and Getting Buy In from Stakeholders

The CoolCatTeacher

Lynn Fuini-Hetten on episode 259 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. In today’s show, learn how one successful district has tackled this process and how they are getting buy in from teachers on the vision during the second year of implementation.

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Embedding Equity Across a District and Community

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Train for transformation with professional learning focused on cultural competency and implicit bias. Professional learning: Require all staff to take courses on culturally responsive practices—and it should not be invitational. From this work, they came up with five steps that inform their approach today.

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Getting Rid of Cemetery Style Seating in the Classroom with Bill Selak

The CoolCatTeacher

Episode 118 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. He also shares how flexible seating should go with more student voice and choice in their learning. Read more on the Hillbrook Blog: Flexible Classrooms. BILL: Yeah, it is.

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The Free and Online 2014 School Leadership Summit Starts Wednesday! (Full Session List)

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Tell a Friend / Colleague The conference is open to ALL, so please tweet, blog, email, or shout at your friends and colleagues to let them know about us. Lynott III PhD 12:00pm (ACSA) Facilitating 21st century Learning with Technology- Navigating the Change with a 20th Century Mindset - Dr. Johnson, M.A.E., Dolores Gende.

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Celebrating ConnectED’s Achievements Toward Transforming Education

Digital Promise

Beginning in fall 2014, the students and teachers at Burbank Elementary School in Hayward, California, embarked on a new and ambitious program to integrate arts across the curriculum. Thirty-four elementary schools are contributing data to the district’s Project Daffodil, examining relationships between weather and plants.

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Effective Digital Leadership: Moving Our Schools Forward

EdTechSandyK

Notes from a concurrent session at TASA Midwinter 2014. Communications scottstaff.blogspot.com - Blog which Don uses to communicate with his staff. Blog also sets admins up in order to be able to do flipped learning with their staff. Professional Growth Don uses Twitter for a professional learning network.

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