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Teacher Development Research Review: Keys to Educator Success

Digital Promise

Job Embedded Professional Development. Professional Learning Communities. 2004; Vescio, Ross, and Adams, 2008 ; The Wallace Foundation, 2012): A vision of academic success for all students based on high expectations. A safe and cooperative climate for learning. Effective Administrator and Teacher Leadership.

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New Course Offering: The Tech Savvy Teacher

The Web20Classroom

From Shaelynn - In 2008, the district I worked in adopted a 1:1 Laptop Initiative. We thought we’d hear questions about how to teach or was to incorporate the technology more seamlessly. Once we understand the why of learning, the how , layered with appropriate use of technology, because fundamentally easier.

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Social Emotional Learning: Research & Applications for Distance Learning

MIND Research Institute

For example, teaching students how to respect social nuances forms empathy and understanding, enabling better relationship building when working with diverse groups of people. Like other areas in pedagogy, theoretically, best practices will remain the same whether teachers and students are in person or distance learning.

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Social Emotional Learning in the Classroom: Research & Applications for Distance Learning

MIND Research Institute

For example, teaching students how to respect social nuances forms empathy and understanding, enabling better relationship building when working with diverse groups of people. Like other areas in pedagogy, theoretically, best practices will remain the same whether teachers and students are in person or distance learning.

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How Did State-Funded Preschools Respond to the Pandemic? Special Report Offers a Glimpse

Edsurge

During the last recession, around 2008-9, many states relaxed or adjusted their preschool requirements in order to survive, but never reversed those changes. Many programs, in order to reduce costs, made concessions like cutting their professional development budgets, easing teacher qualifications or increasing class sizes.

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Redesigning, Reimagining, and Rethinking American Education

edWeb.net

The outcome of this commission is Learning 2025: Student-Centered, Equity-Focused Education, an AASA initiative that calls for holistic redesign of the public school system by 2025. How to fully engage students: The current and next generation of learners have never lived without smartphones, the internet, etc. About the Presenters.

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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. Not wanting to bore you with too many details, I do want to share this little nostalgic journey with you… February 7, 2008 – What a way to turn the day around. An amazing educator in Colorado and prolific sharer of learning.

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