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Stories Link Us Together

A Principal's Reflections

Provide stakeholders with REALITY by sharing all the awesomeness in your classroom, school, district, or organization. Once I started drinking the Twitter Kool-Aid back in 2009 I quickly learned the error of my ways. The stories I accessed on Twitter inspired me to be better.

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Get the Good News Out

A Principal's Reflections

As I have been writing since 2009, if you don’t tell your story someone else will. When someone else controls the narrative, chances are it might not paint an accurate picture of what is truly happening in your classroom, school, or district. This template was used to create the monthly Principal’s Report as I called it.

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Teaching with the News in a Time of Challenge and Change

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He began his career as a classroom teacher in the New York City schools through Teach For America. Since joining NLP in 2009, he has coordinated classroom and after-school programs, served as Chicago program manager, worked on organizational strategy and developed NLP’s digital program. Join the Community.

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Back To School-Leadership In 2011

The Web20Classroom

I orginially wrote this post back in 2009. With all of these external pressures there is little time for school leadership to encourage teachers to take risks in their classroom and be creative in terms of technology. Connected Principals (Classroom 2.0 One of the best and easiest ways to create a PLN is to join Twitter.

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Upcoming Enhancements to Discovery Education’s Award-Winning Techbook Series to Help Educators Maximize Instructional Time

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(June 25, 2018) – Discovery Education , the leading provider of digital content and professional learning for K-12 classrooms, today announced that upcoming enhancements to its award-winning Techbook series will help educators maximize instructional time by making engaging digital content even more accessible to teachers and students.

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Organizing the Edtech Toolbox

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Finally, both talked about how, through the vetting process, they’ve been able to better educate their teachers about bringing edtech into the classroom. “We Awarded Technology Director of the Year by TCEA in 2009, he has also been featured in several educational technology magazines as well as other published books on edtech.

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Race to the Top is over - What now? A new resource from Education First

Insight Education Group

In July 2015, Race to the Top (RTTT), a bold federal initiative that offered incentives to spur innovation in teaching and learning, officially ended. Since the roll out in 2009, RTTT has dedicated over $4 billion to states, impacting more than 22 million students and 1.5 You can follow him on Twitter at @stricktlyjason.