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Educators Need Each Other to Thrive: Why Educator Networks Matter

Digital Promise

Whether it’s purchasing classroom supplies out of their own pockets, exceeding work hours to complete mandated paperwork, implementing safety protocols for school invasions, or going above and beyond to engage families, educators find a way to get everything done—even while trying to maintain their own health, well-being, and sanity!

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Digital Promise Brings Edcamps Into Its Tent

Edsurge

For years, organizers of “ Edcamps ,” a popular brand of informal professional development gatherings for teachers, received a resource kit sent by their host organization, the Edcamp Foundation. Last week, Digital Promise announced it had acquired the assets and operations of the Edcamp Foundation. It began with a box.

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2 Unconferences in 2 Days: EdCamp Honolulu and EdCampOnline -- Part 1 of 2

mauilibrarian2 in Olinda

I hadn''t ever been to an EdCamp before, so to attend two in two days was quite amazing. One event was in person, the other was online (a first not only for me, but for edcamps!). So this is Part I: mainly about the resources I gathered at EdCamp Honolulu , October 19, 2013. Part II will be about EdCamp Online. ?

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Coming This Summer: Powerful, Peer-Led Professional Development That Won’t Bore

Edsurge

Hosted in classrooms, virtual spaces, brick-and-mortar spaces, makerspaces and elsewhere, each program strives to do for educators what educators do for students: instill a sense of wonder, possibility, excitement and ownership.

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Questions To Ask For #LeadershipDay12

The Web20Classroom

Here are my entries: 2009 , 2010 , 2011 ). Some classrooms are lucky. Are they going to conferences or Edcamps to expand their horizons or see what conversations teachers are having? Or is the administrator providing time for teachers to visit other classrooms to see best practices or share model lessons?

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mauilibrarian2's 10 Nominations for the 2013 Edublogs Awards #eddies13

mauilibrarian2 in Olinda

Best individual blog - One of the EdCamp Movement''s founders, Kristen Swanson , is in my exclusive Google+ MVP circle. Best class blog - Mrs. Yollis'' Classroom Blog (again). Best individual tweeter - I joined Twitter in 2010 just to follow @joycevalenza. I had even more fun picking my favorites this year than last.

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A National Push for More ‘Active Use’ of Technology in Learning

Educator Innovator

Katie and Jason’s work, part of a collected free ebook called Teaching in the Connected Learning Classroom , was one of several highlighted in the Department of Education’s 2016 National Education Technology Plan , “ Future Ready Learning: Reimagining the Role of Technology in Education (PDF).”