eSchool News

JANUARY 31, 2023

BOSTON – Clark County School District (CCSD) in Nevada, has made Lexia LETRS ® (Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling) professional learning programs available to most elementary schools in the district with a plan to continue expanding the program to additional elementary and early childhood teachers and administrators.

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 5, 2021

While this is undoubtedly important, it is also vital to gather input on professional learning and resources that are needed— more of this down the road. Data is used to group, regroup, provide targeted instruction, pull individuals for intensive one-on-one support, and differentiate to especially help at-risk learners.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 13, 2022

A foundation can then be established for more personalized approaches such as pedagogically-sound blended learning, self-paced activities, and bitmoji classrooms. Asynchronous Personalized Learning The critical tenet of personalized learning is all learners getting what they need when and where they need it.

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 23, 2022

Not a single person is unaffected, and everyone needs help in some form or another. However, one group, in particular, stands out as they are on the front lines every day working with kids – our teachers. That means no meetings, phone calls, emails, or mandated professional development. Scaling professional learning is hard.

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EdNews Daily

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

First, as schools adjust to the seismic shifts in society at large, increasingly teachers must demonstrate skills in inquiry, project-based learning, design thinking and supporting personalized learning through coaching and mentoring. Replacing workshops with small group coaching is a great step forward.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

To that end, we chatted with HP Teaching Fellows Rola Tibshiran i, Vicky Masson , Joseph Filipic , Jim Pedrech and Chad Sorrells about how critical professional learning networks (PLNs) have been to both their craft and their well-being. Here, they share four essential recommendations for creating a strong PLN.

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eSchool News

JUNE 29, 2022

BOSTON (June 29, 2022) – Cicero School District 99 in Illinois has adopted Lexia LETRS® (Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling) professional learning programs for its teachers and administrators. It also offers professional learning sessions led by national LETRS experts. About Cambium Learning Group.

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Class Tech Integrate

JUNE 20, 2018

The most important/impactful professional learning I have ever participated in was developing my own Personal Learning Network (PLN) through Twitter. and how on earth are you doing professional learning with Twitter? Step 1: #Hashtags Find hashtags that apply to what you want to learn about.

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edWeb.net

APRIL 6, 2021

Since the administrators could be blinded by their specific needs and areas of focus, they brought in a diverse group that could address everything the community needs. Analytics in Action is a free professional learning community on edWeb.net for school technology leaders, superintendents, curriculum and instructional leaders.

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eSchool News

APRIL 21, 2022

BOSTON (April 21, 2022) – Hemet Unified School District in Riverside County, California, has adopted LETRS® (Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling) professional learning programs for its teachers and administrators. It also offers professional learning sessions led by national LETRS experts.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 2, 2021

1, 2021) –– The Kansas State Board of Education is providing statewide access to LETRS® (Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling) professional learning for educators in prekindergarten through third grade to individuals entering the early education field. About Cambium Learning Group. BOSTON (Dec.

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 22, 2020

In my book, Balance with Blended Learning , I invite teachers to reimagine teaching and learning by partnering with students. This partnership gives teachers more time and energy to innovate and personalize learning while providing students with the opportunity to actively drive their own growth.

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Edsurge

JUNE 4, 2018

The idea of using a learning management system (LMS) to deliver professional learning and development to K-12 educators is not new—but it’s not quite mainstream, either. The organization has been providing LMS-based professional learning for the state’s educators since 2004. “We Hint: Think AI.)

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 5, 2022

All of them, I’ve found well-suited to the task of scaling and differentiating tech skills for age groups, scaffolding learning year-to-year, taking into account the perspectives and norms of all stakeholders, with appropriate metrics to know learning is organic and granular. Group enrollment. Group enrollment.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 5, 2023

During the spring of 2022, I met Nicki Slaugh , who serves as principal, and many of her staff at a school system where we were all there to facilitate professional learning on Personalized Competency-Based Learning (PCBL). A standout example of this is Quest Academy Junior High School in Utah.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

These updates include new data-driven personalized learning products, LearningNav and ContentNav, and a new resource library within Unified Insights MTSS , which will provide educators with vetted, research-backed strategies and tools.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Discovery Education–the global leader in standards-aligned digital curriculum resources and professional learning for K-12 classrooms–today introduced update s to the award-winning Discovery Education Experience platform designed to support educators and students in distance and hybrid learning environment s.

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Edsurge

MAY 28, 2017

In response to these challenges, the NYCDOE launched WeTeachNYC in September 2015, an online professional learning space for teachers and school leaders.WeTeachNYC was designed based on three core understandings: Educators benefit from having a centralized space where resources and opportunities are easily discoverable.

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Edthena

AUGUST 13, 2021

On this episode of the Teaching Leading Learning K-12 Podcast, Edthena founder and CEO Adam Geller talked with Steve Miletto talked about all things professional learning, including how video is changing the game for giving educators feedback about their teaching. We know this is important, but we can’t get to it yet.

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Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

We discuss how the design of classrooms can shift the focus from consumption to creation, how the school schedule can be used flexibly to give students more agency in identifying what they need and when, and how grouping students by needs and skills instead of by age can provide them with a more personalized learning experience.

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Edsurge

MAY 26, 2017

In response to these challenges, the NYCDOE launched WeTeachNYC in September 2015, an online professional learning space for teachers and school leaders.WeTeachNYC was designed based on three core understandings: Educators benefit from having a centralized space where resources and opportunities are easily discoverable.

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 10, 2022

An equitable learning culture at the district and school level can only be created through the development of policies, procedures, and vision that result in systems geared toward supporting the uniqueness of all learners. There also must be ongoing professional learning for teachers, coaches, administrators, and other related staff.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2017

LearnLaunch Institute , the Massachusetts Personalized Learning Edtech Consortium (MAPLE) functions as a professional learning community for 32 district members that aim to implement personalized learning. You can personalize learning just fine without technology. But it can help.

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Edsurge

JUNE 29, 2016

Speaking on panel at the PBS Digital Innovators event, Brown talked up the rise of the online spaces for collaboration, also known as personal learning networks (PLN) as enabling anyone, even those who in remote areas or who feel more introverted, to come together to collaborate and share ideas.

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MindShift

JANUARY 26, 2021

The profiles are part of the school’s embrace of personalized learning, which centers on the belief that a teacher lecturing at the front of a classroom is a bad fit for today’s students. Personalized learning has, in recent years, become one of the most talked-about trends in education.

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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. Recently the district asked me to be a part of their professional development day, which consisted of seven different learning strands specific to the needs and interests of their teachers.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 21, 2020

Personalization Personalized learning represents a movement from the “what” to the “who” as a means to facilitate student ownership of the learning process. A hybrid model accounts for this fact, and its success relies on budgeting, existing space redesign, and professional learning support.

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My Island View

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

After being involved in social media for over a decade, I have made a few observations that might be helpful to folks who use social media, more specifically Twitter, to develop and maintain a Personal Learning Network. Using Twitter for professional learning requires a collaborative mindset. This requires work.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 30, 2019

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. So, what does meaningful professional learning look like?

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

In October, we will share a guide highlighting the trends, insights and challenges we've learned about while profiling five key players in the world of school redesign. Education Elements provides support for schools and districts as they transform their school models to personalize learning. Stay tuned! What have I done wrong?”

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edWeb.net

JUNE 22, 2017

Report prepared by Cambridge Learning Group. Rock Valley Community School District in Iowa relies on edWeb.net to support its professional development program for teachers. Active learning through structured online activities and classroom application. Download the full report.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 11, 2019

Teachers may give assessments before each unit or standard, which sorts students into three groups: high, middle, low. . Every time a teacher switches units or standards, they should reassess, and students may change groups throughout the year depending on that data. Personalized Learning Is the Ultimate Goal.

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Reading By Example

AUGUST 10, 2017

In Chapter 4 of Becoming a Literacy Leader , Jennifer Allen describes how she facilitates professional learning beyond the schoolwide initiative. She refers to these opportunities as “study groups” They are typically designed around a specific educational resource. Offer Study Group Opportunities to Faculty.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 23, 2022

BOSTON – During the 2021-22 school year, Lexia® Learning, a Cambium Learning® Group company, supported over 200,000 students and teachers throughout Massachusetts with instructional and professional learning programs. Lexia® Learning, a Cambium Learning® Group company, is the structured literacy expert.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 10, 2015

What Is A Personal Learning Network? What is a personal learning network, or rather a Personal Learning Network? How about a Professional Learning Network? What Is A Personal Learning Network? . The post What Is A Personal Learning Network? by TeachThought Staff.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

My journey as an educator began thirty years ago and—I’ll admit—references to personalized learning were never mentioned or formally discussed back then. We consider physical changes as being individual and unique, yet do we recognize that each person’s learning journey can be just as individual?

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techlearning

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Partnering with LEAP Innovations, a national leader in personalized learning, the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) is launching a blended online course that will make LEAP Innovations’ rigorous professional development programming available to educators, schools and district leaders beyond Chicago for the first time.

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