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How Are Educators Continuing Powerful Professional Learning Online?

Digital Promise

In June, the Edcamp Community joined our Digital Promise family. The Edcamp Community supports educators to organize and participate in participant-driven professional learning designed by and for educators. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, Edcamps were typically in-person and locally focused.

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5 Tips for Planning a Kidcamp, the Student-Driven #Edcamp

Edsurge

By now you’ve probably heard of edcamps —free, organic, participant-driven, “un-conferences” that empower educators to maximize professional learning experiences and peer networks. PD After Hours Earlier this year, Hackensack Public Schools hosted its first edcamp at Nellie K. Parker Elementary School. Share our story.

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How Kristen Swanson Applies Her Classroom Experience to Lead ‘Professional Learning’ at Slack

Edsurge

She began her career as a third-grade teacher, later served as director of technology for a school district, then directed a research department at BrightBytes, which helps K-12 administrators and school leaders align school spending with learning outcomes. Pull Learning'. What’s a classroom memory that sticks with her?

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How To Value Individual Staff Profesional Development Through Incentive Programs

TeacherCast

Let us face it, these motivational tricks also work well in the classroom to motivate students to learn. How many times have you heard of teachers who try to trade good behavior for extra time at recess? What is professional development? Let us look at another.

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How To Value Individual Staff Profesional Development Through Incentive Programs

TeacherCast

Let us face it, these motivational tricks also work well in the classroom to motivate students to learn. How many times have you heard of teachers who try to trade good behavior for extra time at recess? Step 1: Define What Professional Development Truly Is. What is professional development? Let us look at another.

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8 Education Books For The Digital Age: The Connected Educator Series #CorwinCE

The Web20Classroom

But if you ask teachers who have never used a social network, blog, or mobile device for learning in their classrooms to discuss connected education, you are likely to be met with blank stares, furrowed eyebrows and shrugged shoulders. The Edcamp model connects educators to PD like never before. According to DeWitt, we can.

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Connecting Personalized Professional Learning to a Bigger Purpose

The Principal of Change

When I think about how to effectively empower educators to create personalized professional learning for themselves, I often think of Google’s “20% time”, where employees had 20% of their own time to move forward Google as an organization. Let’s start with the second point first.