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3 Key Actions for 2021-22 You Can Take Now

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Initiatives include: Building an outdoor restroom to provide expanded outdoor learning. Reinventing spaces—designing flexible classroom spaces and turning a library into a learning commons with flexible seating and mobile bookshelves. Action 3: Future Proof Your School. Upgrading HVAC systems and roofs and windows.

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What Makes Professional Development Work?

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“Don’t call it professional development—call it professional learning.” Professional learning opportunities need to be designed with agency, fidelity, contextual learning, relevancy, sustainability, and iterant. Challenges of Professional Development. ” Jill Abbott Sr.

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Leading the Digital Transformation in Rural Districts During Crisis and Beyond

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Already, many teachers don’t have the skills to integrate tech into the classroom—even the young ones. While they may be proficient in using edtech, they don’t know how to create comprehensive lessons to use it in the classroom. She was selected to participate in the Future Ready Superintendent Briefing with the U.S.

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A Unified Approach for Digital Integration

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He currently co-leads a Future Ready Administrators principal team to foster professional learning and he is working with the director of curriculum to define a blended and personalized learning framework to help implement digital content and services. Mark has presented at ISTE, SXSWEdu, FETC, CUE, and AASL.

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Maintaining Cybersecurity in Schools: Phishing, Malware, and DDoS—Oh My!

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Education has always been a passion of his, prior to information security, as he worked with a non-profit to promote effective technology in the classrooms. Mark joined the Boston Public Schools in 2007 as a classroom teacher before joining the central administration in 2012 where he has served as the CIO for the last nine years.

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Personalization and Teacher Engagement Play Vital Roles in College and Career Readiness

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College and career readiness has grown to be a hot topic that is on the mind of every educational leader in the nation. But being college and career ready takes more than just career counseling or use of software in the classroom, it takes personalized, differentiated instruction that starts at an early age.

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Michelle Luhtala Wins AASL Social Media Superstars Award

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AASL’s Social Media Superstars program honors school library professionals who enrich the profession and its work on behalf of students by sharing information, expertise, ideas, encouragement, dialog and inspiration using a variety of social media channels. I met Michelle Luhtala at the CoSN Conference in March 2010–seven years ago.