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Teacher Development Research Review: Keys to Educator Success

Digital Promise

Job Embedded Professional Development. Professional Learning Communities. A safe and cooperative climate for learning. Support and training to promote continual professional learning. Data to track and promote collaborative inquiry and practices that improve student learning.

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Nostalgia will NOT get my PhD finished….but it is a nice diversion

Learning Confluence

I have blogged now since 2006… and looking back at February 2008 was quite interesting. The PD model we started at this time has grown and developed since… and is still a large part of how I approach workshops and professional learning with teachers – and how Kim does as well.

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Donors Choose YOU - Top 10 Tips to Fund Your Project

EdTechTeam

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. It was called donorschoose.org. It’s what they call crowd-sourcing,” she said. What was that? I have never heard that word.

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Helping Others Along – Motivation Theory and the SAMR Model

techlearning

Professional Development in education has the responsibility of promoting teacher growth in a valid and practical manner. Workshop and other in-service events are magnified by collaborative, shared-experiences. The best practices found in effective professional learning communities (PLCs) can help us significantly.

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Final Schedule - Open Mini-Conference on Library "Expertise, Competencies, and Careers"

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Gross has delivered 100+ keynotes, workshops, seminars, and webinars on "Libraries = Education," drawing the participation and input of thousands of library professionals from 46 states and more than a dozen countries around the world. As the philosophy evolved, HCLS became well known in the U.S. and overseas.

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2016 EdTechTeam Impact Report

EdTechTeam

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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Five Steps to Closing the Homework Gap

edWeb.net

“The research has shown…that the most successful professional learning is focused. And so the one-and-done workshop can be great for sparking an idea, but to think we’re going to bring about real classroom change with a one-day workshop, it isn’t really going to happen.”. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING. Dr. Carol L.