The Innovative Educator

JUNE 24, 2019

Fortunately, teachers like April Keck DeGennaro who teaches at Peoples Elementary School in Georgia is. Fortunately, teachers like April Keck DeGennaro who teaches at Peoples Elementary School in Georgia is. It didn't take long for her to figure that out and then share her powerful story on the ISTE stage in 2018.

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EdNews Daily

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Open doors to new opportunities and provide the base for a career change. Build networking skills while creating new personal and professional relationships. After moving to Georgia, I attended Toccoa Falls College and graduated with my bachelor’s degree in the middle-grade levels. million nationally. Petersburg, Florida.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

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. View the video recording. Listen to the podcast.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

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. View the video recording. Listen to the podcast.

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edWeb.net

MARCH 11, 2020

The goal of digital equity is to ensure that all students have access to devices, high-speed internet, and opportunities to learn both in school and out. One of the struggles in Wisconsin is digital learning days, where students with limited or no access to WIFI at home cannot access their education. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

The top 10 states for classroom adoption are California, Texas, New York, Virginia, Florida, North Carolina, Georgia, Illinois, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey. We are grateful to educators across the country for their efforts to adopt this new approach to teaching and learning. K-12 students, a full year ahead of schedule.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 24, 2017

You’re not going to show tremendous difference in performance if you don’t have the most powerful people on the campus involved in the work.”. But Penn State and other schools are diligently changing that,” says Fisher, who also directs the Millennium Scholars Program , aimed at bringing more black and Latino students into the sciences.

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Brainscape

JANUARY 28, 2022

However, there are also paramedic jobs in a vast spectrum of other environments, which you should most definitely consider when deciding upon your career path: Dangerous workplaces like oil rigs, mines, power plants, etc. Where should you start looking? How should you approach the job market? But first … who are “we”?

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 17, 2021

At the individual level, intrinsic motivation drives educators to actively seek opportunities that support their diverse learning interests and needs. Social media has played a considerable role in this area over the years, demonstrating the power of Personal Learning Networks (PLNs) with learning anytime, anywhere, and with anyone.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

The Learning Revolution Weekly Update September 24th, 2014 The important thing is not to stop questioning. link] The Learning Revolution Project holds online and physical learning events, and highlights professional development opportunities from a network of 200 partners in the learning professions.

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MindShift

JANUARY 9, 2019

Time is one of the most powerful levers for change in a school. Before Abl, Walsh was a teacher and tech coordinator and has worked for New Tech Network. If it were only up to Loveland High School Assistant Principal Marc Heiser, his school would have flexible modular scheduling , or “flex-mod scheduling.” Heiser knows.

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Edsurge

JULY 23, 2021

Even though the cost of delivering online courses was then far less than on campus, we worried that if colleges set a lower price for remote instruction, students and their families might get the wrong impression, with lower prices signaling that digital learning was less valuable. Other forces must be in play.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Learning Models, Theories, and Technology: A Dictionary For 21st Century Teachers. Purpose: Improving our chance for a common language in discussing existing and emerging learning trends, model, and technology in hopes of innovation in classrooms, and collectively, education at large. Activity-Based Learning. ” (1). .”

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Insight Education Group

DECEMBER 13, 2022

How to find value in networking. As our journey reaches the six-month timeline, we are beginning to see recurring themes, strategies, and concerns when our districts look to recruit and retain teachers. One of our districts reported 50 openings in July, dropping to 17 in September, and currently down to only 5!

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Insight Education Group

JUNE 14, 2017

Not surprisingly, they learned there is indeed a positive effect of one-on-one coaching on a teacher's instructional practice. Atul Gawande, an acclaimed surgeon and research scientist, wrote in a 2011 New Yorker article , “Coaching done well may be the most effective intervention designed for human performance.”. How to Build a Plan.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

. — It was a rainy February morning, but Clarksdale Collegiate Principal Amanda Johnson was fired up. You know how Ms. Johnson feels about Friday,” she told the students as she paced around the cafeteria in an “I am black history” shirt. “If If you didn’t get it all done … Friday’s the day you turn it around.”.

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EdTechTeam

DECEMBER 18, 2017

This quote, by Maya Angelou, is what set the tone for a life-changing weekend in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It was an emotional weekend as we learned to tell our stories and share our voices. Jennie led the weekend with a phenomenal crew of EdTech leaders: Ken Shelton , Monica Martinez , and Sarah Thomas. .

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Insight Education Group

JUNE 15, 2017

Not surprisingly, they learned there is indeed a positive effect of one-on-one coaching on a teacher's instructional practice. Atul Gawande, an acclaimed surgeon and research scientist, wrote in a 2011 New Yorker article , “Coaching done well may be the most effective intervention designed for human performance.”. How to Build a Plan.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Colleges defend professors’ rights to pursue controversial topics of discussion such as climate change, police brutality, charter schools and pornography. Indiana University in Bloomington Indiana. Photo: Don & Melinda Crawford/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images .

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Doug Levin

MARCH 26, 2017

While there are inconveniences to air travel, the upside for me is that I use these long haul flights as a chance to catch up on my long-form reading list. While it may seem quaint or old fashioned to some (when accessing WiFi and on-demand videos seem de rigueur), it has been part of my travel routine for too many years to casually cast it aside.

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Doug Levin

MARCH 26, 2017

While there are inconveniences to air travel, the upside for me is that I use these long haul flights as a chance to catch up on my long-form reading list. While it may seem quaint or old fashioned to some (when accessing WiFi and on-demand videos seem de rigueur), it has been part of my travel routine for too many years to casually cast it aside.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2024

Future-minded reporting Our free newsletter, Future of Learning, features innovative, original stories every other Wednesday. This article was originally published by The Markup , a nonprofit, investigative newsroom that challenges technology to serve the public good. An eighth grader was blocked repeatedly while researching trans rights.

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Hack Education

APRIL 13, 2018

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified before Congress this week about privacy, data, monopoly power, and regulations. Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. All this feeds the review I write each December on the stories we are told about the future of education.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 24, 2014

The Learning Revolution Weekly Update June 24th, 2014 The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. Harris The Learning Revolution Project highlights our own "conference 2.0" virtual and physical events and those of our over 200 partners in the learning professions. ISTE Unplugged Starts This Friday!

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 11, 2016

I’d hardly know where to begin in writing one, but I want to open this particular article – one that focuses, in part, on the whole “everyone should learn to code” craze – recognizing his great contribution to educational computing as well as his loss. This is part six of my annual review of the year in ed-tech.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 6, 2017

” It’s a case from Georgia Gwinnett College. Ivanka Trump with an op-ed in The New York Post : “Why we need to start teaching tech in Kindergarten.” ” (Spoiler alert: because five-year-olds need coding skills so they can get jobs. Lazy, lazy, little children.). “Trump Taps Common-Core Foe Mick Zais for No.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Via The 74 : “Trump’s Education Paradox: Return Schools to Local Control – By Expanding Federal Power?” Trump’s education platform promises to “make post-secondary options more affordable and accessible through technology enriched delivery models.” ” “Make MOOCs great again.”

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2022

LaTavia BigBack was 17, a high school junior, when she and her friends were in a car crash. In the hospital, the doctor asked if she minded her friends being in the room — he had some news for her. BigBack said no; she thought maybe she had a concussion. But the doctor told her she was pregnant. This story also appeared in USA Today.

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Hack Education

MAY 13, 2016

The Education and Justice Departments have notified every public school district in the country with a “Dear Colleague” letter that discrimination against transgender students , particularly over which bathroom they can use, violates federal civil rights law. ” Presidential Campaign Hellscape. Congrats Thiel Fellows!

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

I think it is worthwhile, as the decade draws to a close, to review those stories and to see how much (or how little) things have changed. The Consortium for School Networking, CoSN, has taken up the mantle for the K-12 version. You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019.

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Hack Education

JULY 6, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. All this feeds the review I write each December on the stories we are told about the future of education. National) Education Politics. More via NPR and via Pacific Standard. ” From the Department of Education press office : “ U.S. ” JFC.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 18, 2016

Facebook worked with the Summit Public Schools charter chain in order to develop this “personalized learning platform,” which it released last year and now licenses to other schools under the product name “Basecamp.” This is part nine of my annual review of the year in ed-tech.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. All this feeds the review I write each December on the stories we are told about the future of education. I’m starting on that project soon, and my god, this all looks so grim. National) Education Politics. State and Local) Education Politics.

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Hack Education

JUNE 10, 2016

” Via the San Jose Mercury News : “A bipartisan group of lawmakers is calling for a state audit of a profitable but low-performing network of online charter schools following this newspaper’s investigation of K12 Inc., “ Here Is The Powerful Letter The Stanford Victim Read Aloud To Her Attacker.”

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Via The Guardian : “Parliament alone has the power to trigger Brexit by notifying Brussels of the UK’s intention to leave the European Union, the high court has ruled. Blah Blah Blah. Peter Thiel ](Tech Billionaire Backing Trump Suggests Silicon Valley Is Out of Touch). Blah Blah Blah. ” Education Politics. Adams , the U.S.

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