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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edWeb.net

JUNE 12, 2020

Two months after the COVID-19 crisis forced educators across the United States to leave their classrooms and start teaching online, the scope of the changes and challenges have now become clear, and educational leaders have started to identify what’s working and what still needs improvement. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

All of the presenters said that due to the growing sophistication of attacks, they include cybersecurity training as part of professional learning. Ann served as co-chair of Texas Education Technology Advisory Committee which developed the Texas Long Range Plan for Technology, 2006-2020. Join the Community.

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MindShift

APRIL 25, 2019

The 2006 film An Inconvenient Truth and its 2017 sequel, An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth To Power have curricular materials created in partnership with the National Wildlife Federation. The Morningside Center for Teaching Social Responsibility has a group of 19 lessons for K-12. ” She described the unit as a success.

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edWeb.net

MAY 17, 2021

Reid emphasized the importance of listening and grounding equity work in the voices of the students and other community members, and also making sure achieving educational and racial justice is a process of removing barriers for all students, rather than taking something from one group and giving it to another. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING.

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EdTechTeam

JANUARY 4, 2017

EdTechTeam is a Google for Education Professional Development Partner and the global leader in Google for Education Certification. Across all programs, EdTechTeam hired over 200 Google Certified Trainers ( 23 of them full-time employees) to deliver 438 events totalling 4568 hours of professional development in 2016.

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Even before the pandemic and the shift to distance education, learning extended beyond the classroom. Kids don’t have time to wait, so school leaders need to make professional learning a high priority. The paraprofessionals also receive devices and professional learning that support their work.

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EdTechSandyK

APRIL 23, 2012

Notes from FutureofEducation.com Webinar Steve Hargadon , Moderator Vicki Davis and Julie Lindsay , authors of Flattening Classrooms, Engaging Minds [link] Book was three years in the making. Wanted to tell the story of the classroom teacher and show these things are really happening. So, learning can improve by doing pilot projects.

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EdTechTeam

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

In 2006 while waiting on a very late bus to pick up my first graders, my principal stopped by my room to tell me about this new website she had heard about from some admin colleagues. The next week, the materials arrived in my classroom. Checkout this Facebook group ! It was called donorschoose.org. What was that?

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edWeb.net

JUNE 17, 2020

With schools planning for potential shutdowns at later dates and with potential changes to learning overall, these costs must be considered immediately. Distance learning requires skill sets teachers might not have focused on before, and schools need to prepare them. Join the Community.

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MindShift

JANUARY 20, 2017

Below we offer our Top Five reasons why, as educators, we should care about spatial thinking when we plan, observe, and assess mathematics in our classrooms. Both groups of children completed pre- and post-tests involving a range of math and spatial skills. Spatial reasoning and mathematical thinking are intimately linked.

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edWeb.net

JUNE 4, 2019

It’s also looking at the potential changes, said Dr. Gabe Soumakian, CEO and Founder, Sup Du Jour Consulting Group, like what happens when a software or hardware company goes out of business. He has presented regionally, statewide and nationally on topics that have a foundation in professional learning communities and innovative schools.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

When writing policies, rather than restating the laws and all the legal jargon, administrators need to ask themselves what each group needs to know, and what do they need to do. Then, write policies that help each group enact the laws. And, administrators shouldn’t neglect privacy training for non-classroom staff.

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edWeb.net

APRIL 22, 2019

The goal is to determine where there are gaps and inequities, and the school needs to understand what’s happening outside of the classroom. Most important, accessibility is not limited to any one group of kids or description. ClassLink empowers your students and teachers with instant access to their learning resources.

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EdTechSandyK

MARCH 7, 2012

Tom Greaves, The Greaves Group www.projectred.org Project Red - large scale research project funded by Pearson and Intel; Collected data from over 1000 schools around the country and looked at 136 variables. The New Digital Learning Environment II. Practical examples are needed; show what it looks like in a classroom.

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Of course, part of the reason most schools switch to 1:1 is because they want the classroom to reflect the real world—and anticipate what jobs could be when the kindergartners graduate. However, the more successful schools focus on improving teaching and learning first with edtech being just one of the tools to support it.

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techlearning

OCTOBER 9, 2018

How do we best help them to understand the value of new technology and how it might benefit their students lives (rather than how might it help my fit into their classroom). Attention When we relate the relevance of using emergent technology in the classroom we must describe how adoption is advantageous. & DeAngelis Peace, S.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 5, 2010

In her dual role at ESR she oversees production of publications and marketing/communications strategies as well as providing direct professional development services on whole school reform, classroom management, school climate and culture, and advisory development and implementation.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Since then she has served in various capacities including as a literacy coach, ed tech professional development manager and technology innovation manager. Today she serves as the director of digital engagement and professional learning. A replica of his classroom was installed in the US Botanic Gardens in Washington, DC.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Loyola University New Orleans shuttered its education department in 2006, although the school still offers a program for aspiring music teachers. Amber Morgan, the director of quality review and professional learning at ReNEW, said they decided to work with Tulane because the university already had residency programs in other city schools.

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