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

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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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Participate.com: Your toolbelt for professional learning

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A recent winner of the ISTE Seal of Alignment Report , Participate.com is a professional learning networker’s dream, packed with features offering local relevance as well as the potential for global connections. The tabs on the redesigned dashboard represent the realm of learning opportunities. . Collections.

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Give Teachers Credit: They Know Learning Is Social

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The future, and increasingly the present, of educator professional development is predicated upon insights and resources shared within professional learning communities. Yet scheduled institute days and workshops are all too often remedial and not responsive to the actual needs of a teacher. Participate.

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8 Things to Look for in Today’s Professional Learning (Part 1)

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Over two years ago, I wrote “ 8 Things To Look for in Today’s Classroom ”, and more recently, Sylvia Duckworth created the above visual that has been shared numerous times. As I am in the process of going deeper into the topic, someone asked me if this is something that we could do in professional development. ” Click To Tweet.

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3 Steps to Creating Empowered Leadership in Your School

Kyle Pace

All too often in education – whether that be at a conference, in a professional learning workshop, or even at a faculty meeting, we have become used to one person in the room being the “expert”, or the “Oz” around a particular topic. This post was also a guest post for McGraw-Hill Education. If no, then why not?

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3 Steps to Creating Empowered Leadership in Your School

Kyle Pace

All too often in education – whether that be at a conference, in a professional learning workshop, or even at a faculty meeting, we have become used to one person in the room being the “expert”, or the “Oz” around a particular topic. This is the worse possible post-event outcome I can think of. If no, then why not?

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My #ISTE17 Takeaways

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Rachelle presented multiple times (and I must say she's amazing at sharing her classroom stories) and I was there as an attendee only. It's easy to get lost in the crowd if that is what you want or to be in the middle of everything learning AND social. Why not meet them where they already are looking?