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Georgia Model for Virtual Professional Learning: Supporting Educators During COVID

edWeb.net

In this edWebinar, the Georgia Department of Education (GaDOE) Social Studies team, made up of regional and district leaders, describe how their virtual learning communities on edWeb.net helped them support educators, and their students and parents, during a time of crisis. Why did we start communities on edWeb virtually in 2016?

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Georgia Model for Virtual Professional Learning: Supporting Educators During COVID

edWeb.net

In this edWebinar, the Georgia Department of Education (GaDOE) Social Studies team, made up of regional and district leaders, describe how their virtual learning communities on edWeb.net helped them support educators, and their students and parents, during a time of crisis. Why did we start communities on edWeb virtually in 2016?

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A State-Wide Model for Online Professional Learning

edWeb.net

They built an online professional learning program that uses the edWeb.net platform in combination with webinars and 14 virtual specialists in social studies at all grade levels. Our goal was to find a way to provide professional learning for content and instructional support throughout the state of Georgia.

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

The CoolCatTeacher

Lynn: Sure, so we spent 2015-2016 really doing the research. The second one is what we called, “Innovate Salisbury Professional Learning.” Teachers looked at those texts, tried some projects, reported out, and some of that also shaped the vision, which was then delivered to our staff, in actually 2016-2017.

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Diary of a Techy Teacher: Why I’m Taking a One-Year Sabbatical with BetterLesson

Edsurge

When I was named the 2016 Montana Teacher of the Year, I became a voice for education in my state. Elena Aguilar in "The Art of Coaching" One of my passions is blended learning. Over the past five years, I’ve immersed my earth science and physics students in self-paced, blended learning. So, why should this matter to you?

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TEACHER VOICE: Three classroom trends gain ground

The Hechinger Report

And, most importantly, this kind of teacher leadership was made possible through hybrid roles, dedicated professional learning time and attention to sustainable practices, rather than expecting teacher-leaders to balance this work on top of our already-full plates. Social and emotional learning.

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What?s New: New Tools for Schools

techlearning

The adaptive Apex Learning Tutorials for intervention, remediation, and preparation for high-stakes assessments were proven to improve students’ performance on the Tutorials from pretest to posttest by more than 50% and by an average of 23 to 26 percentile points during the 2016–2017 school year.

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