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?Forbes “30 Under 30” Education Leaders to Learn From in 2017

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The magazine’s “30 Under 30” list, which highlights young leaders in fields such as technology, music and healthcare, added education to the list in 2013 and since then has grown from nearly 90 nominations in 2014 to more than 450 last year. Elijah Mayfield (27), Vice President of New Technologies at Turnitin.

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Empowering Superintendents to Connect Technology and Learning

edWeb.net

In fact, many school technology plans fluctuated depending upon the latest fads and what someone learned at a conference and had little connection to curriculum or learning goals. The Five Imperatives of Technology Leadership , the presenters explored how they have shifted their approaches to integrating edtech in the classroom.

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From Testing to Transformational Change with Pam Moran

The CoolCatTeacher

So you wouldn’t find, for example, with technology — Albemarle has been in a one-to-one environment for a number of years now, as has Charlottesville City. Pam: I think that one of the things that particularly — in states like Virginia where the resources that localities have access to can be wildly different.

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Learning to Breathe: Educators Use Yoga and Meditation to Reduce Burnout

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In 2015, she started Breathe for Change. According to a 2014 report by the Alliance For Excellent Education, a national policy and advocacy organization, roughly half a million U.S. Nankin explained that her students started using the yoga, wellness and social-emotional practices she was teaching them with their own students.

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Educating Kids for Life not for Tests

The CoolCatTeacher

And you know, I’m kind of technology agnostic in some ways. I like technology. I was a science educator, so I’m pretty comfortable and confident using technologies of all kinds, although the kids have really surpassed me when we start to get some of the newer tools that their using, particularly as part of their Maker Work.

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Change One Simple Thing to Start Your Journey to Remarkable Teaching

The CoolCatTeacher

In 2015, a national survey organization ranked Albemarle County Public Schools in the top five of all school divisions in Virginia and among the top two percent of all school divisions in the county. Under her guidance, Albemarle County Public Schools was selected in 2015 for membership in the League of Innovative Schools.,

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Experts call for an end to online preschool programs

The Hechinger Report

It just goes against everything we know about child development and what’s best for children,” said Josh Golin, executive director of the nonprofit advocacy group Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood. In 2013, the Waterford Institute received an $11.5 million federal grant to expand the program to rural children in Utah.

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