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U.S. K-12 Educational Technology Policy: Historical Notes on the Federal Role

Doug Levin

Guidance on the Enhancing Education Through Technology (Ed Tech) Program: Funds Made Available Under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (July 2009). FY 2003 $700,500,000. FY 2009 $269,900,000 (President Bush’s request: $0). FY 2004 $695,900,000 (President Bush’s request: $700,500,000).

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Powerful Learning is Authentic and Challenging

Digital Promise

When students are engaged in work that has an audience and impact outside of their classrooms, they are more motivated to persist in overcoming learning challenges. What you can do to cultivate authenticity and challenge in the classroom. Powerful learning must be authentic and challenging. Yeager, D. S., & Bundick, M. Chaiklin, S.

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Teacher Development Research Review: Keys to Educator Success

Digital Promise

Schools that foster trust among parents, teachers, and school leaders are more likely to see academic improvement than schools that do little or fail to foster trust ( Bryk and Schneider, 2003 ). 2008; Webster-Wright, 2009 ; Accomplished California Teachers, 2012 ). 2008): Successful Collaboration.

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How a $40M Investment Aims to ‘Mainstream and Modernize’ Montessori Education

Edsurge

Girn started his Montessori career in 2003 as a math and science teacher at LePort Schools, then a chain of three Montessori schools in southern California. He climbed up the ladder and became its CEO in 2009. It also provides teacher training and the physical materials used in classrooms.

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Virtual School Tips and Recommendations

The Thinking Stick

2003 – In Saudi Arabia due to terrorism in the country, I helped my school set up and run Moodle to do Virtual School. 2009 – In Bangkok, I helped to train, facilitate and oversee Virtual School due to flooding and H1N1 in Bangkok we used WordPress blogs as teacher websites. Lessons Learned: 1. Last but not least….

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What resources would you suggest for professional book studies on reading instruction?

Reading By Example

Readicide (Gallagher, Stenhouse, 2009). Reading Essentials (Routman, Heinemann, 2003). From Striving to Thriving (Harvey & Ward, Scholastic, 2017). Minds Made for Stories (Newkirk, Heinemann, 2014). Passionate Readers (Ripp, Routledge, 2017). Reading in the Wild (Donalyn Miller, Jossey-Bass, 2014). Moses, Heinemann, 2017).

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Implementing Innovation Strategies to Make School Districts More Equitable

edWeb.net

Conner also identified three levels of innovation that need to occur, starting with the application of efficiency logic to smaller systems like classroom design. From 2001-2003, he served as Vermont’s Education Commissioner. An educator since 1973, Ray has been a teacher, vice principal, principal, and superintendent.