A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 7, 2018

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. Over the course of five years from 2009 – 2014 we worked tirelessly to transform teaching, learning, and leadership.

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The Principal of Change

APRIL 9, 2015

(This is the second of two parts on professional learning. Connected Learning. Differing between the time when you “google” something versus asking the same question on Twitter can not only help you get better results, but in the long run, save time (which no one has enough of). You can read the first part here.

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edWeb.net

MARCH 2, 2021

He first became involved with news literacy in 2014 when his students engaged in NLP’s original classroom program. News Literacy is a free professional learning community on edWeb.net where educators work together to develop their students’ civic knowledge and critical thinking skills when consuming news and information.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

When Digital Promise and EdSurge considered which educator award categories to include in the 2014 Digital Innovation in Learning Awards , we wanted to highlight five areas where exemplary teachers around the world are using innovative strategies to engage and empower students. This blog post was originally published by EdSurge.

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 8, 2013

It is set to be published by Corwin Press on January 14, 2014. Over the next couple of weeks I will introduce what I have come to identify as the Pillars of Digital Leadership , a conceptual framework for leaders to begin thinking about changes to professional practice.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 13, 2016

To implement its use, administrators learned how to coach teachers in using it to design learning opportunities as well as how to gauge teacher impact on student achievement. In the 2014-15 school year, we earned a 97.9% Be sure to check them out on Twitter.

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 21, 2013

The Learning – Edscape is all about professional learning. I feel a school is the best place to engage educators in professional learning. The #Edscape hashtag was trending #1 throughout the day on Twitter. Attendee after attendee commented how helpful, respectful, and enthusiastic they were.

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eSchool News

JUNE 23, 2022

In 1979, he published a book “Creative Land Development: Bridge to the Future” through Houghton Mifflin and his seminal work, “Teach Me to Read: The Early History of Lexia Learning Systems, the Mission, and the Boy Who Inspired it All” in 2014. About Cambium Learning Group. For more information, visit www.lexialearning.com.

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Baker's B.Y.O.D.

JULY 18, 2015

I would not recommend STARTING to form a Professional Learning Network when attending a conference for the first time. Having an insatiable hunger to learn, I first dove into the professional education pool through Twitter. Yup, thanks to a Twitter chat, I'm a published author. She must be reading my blog!"

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The Principal of Change

AUGUST 30, 2016

Speaking about the opportunities there are for learning in our world today through technology, I asked educators in the room to do a “Twitter Video Reflection” and share their learning back to the hashtag. Since many of them were new to Twitter, they didn’t know how to do it, so I decided to not help them.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Lynn Fuini-Hetten on episode 259 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. In today’s show, learn how one successful district has tackled this process and how they are getting buy in from teachers on the vision during the second year of implementation.

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The Web20Classroom

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Personalizing Professional Development -Personalized learning doesn't have to stop at apps. Educators, now more than ever before have multiple options to take part in professional learning from the comfort of their own home. Being a Connected Educator can't be something we push once a month or for a week here and there.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 25, 2014

If you want to follow those tweets, you can either track the conference hashtag #ticalsls14 or you can follow the Learning Revolution Twitter account at @learnrevproject. Manager of Professional Development Individual Professional Learning: when faculty owns their professional growth! Johnson, M.A.E.,

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

DECEMBER 5, 2014

I also want to invite you to a very special webinar on Tuesday, December 9, 2014 at 4 PM EST. First, t o ensure you do not miss one of these valuable posts or other resources covering PBL, Digital Curriculum, Web 2.0, STEM, 21st century learning, and technology integration please sign up for 21centuryedtech by email or RSS.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 15, 2016

Professional development. the best professional learning starts at the beginning—with the “why” instead of the “how.” That’s why the best professional learning starts at the beginning—with the “why” instead of the “how.” Just committing to technology at a school or district level isn’t enough.

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EdTechTeam

MARCH 16, 2017

Leaders who get the chance to be focused on their own growth for an action packed day of learning are better leaders. He is the co-moderator of the Twitter chat #suptchat with Nick Polyak , and he and Polyak co-authored the book The Unlearning Leader: Leading for Tomorrow’s Schools Today (Rowman-Littlefield Publishers 2017).

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TeacherCast

JULY 15, 2015

Twitter: [link]. Michael Soskil is a STEM education, global collaboration, and technology integration expert who has developed and presented numerous professional learning sessions for K-12 teachers, educational media outlets, and social innovators from around the world. https://education.skype.com. About Michael Soskil.

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EdTechSandyK

JANUARY 27, 2014

Notes from a concurrent session at TASA Midwinter 2014. Public Relations In Royce City ISD, every campus has a Twitter account and shares reminders with parents and students via Twitter. Professional Growth Don uses Twitter for a professional learning network.

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Shake Up Learning

MARCH 12, 2019

As co-host of The Google Teacher Tribe Podcast , and host of the soon-to-be-released Shake Up Learning Show , it’s no secret that I like podcasts. I am also an avid listener of many podcasts myself, both for professional learning and personal interests. Podcasts for Professional Learning. What Is A Podcast?

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edWeb.net

DECEMBER 27, 2016

The Alliance for Excellent Education (the Alliance) launched its Future Ready Schools (FRS) initiative in October 2014 with the aim of leveraging technology and connectivity to personalize and transform learning. Follow her on Twitter @mluhtala. Librarians are at the forefront of helping schools become “future ready.”

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edWeb.net

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Moore says that before any rollout of sustainable and effective professional learning, there are four factors that school leaders must consider. Gaddis explained how Wake County focused their professional learning by first identifying three groups: teachers, leadership, and school library media coordinators.

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The Principal of Change

DECEMBER 14, 2017

One of the things that I truly appreciate is all of the amazing educators on Twitter sharing glimpses into their classrooms and professional learning days, making great things happen as the norm in their schools, not the exception. Now do these things happen in every school, all of the time? But they do happen way too much.

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Shake Up Learning

JULY 18, 2017

I have also included a list of hashtags, as well as a fantastic list of educators to follow on Twitter! Twitter Accounts to Follow. This is an updated post inspired by Felix Jacomino ’s 2014 iPadpalooza presentation, “ 500,000 Apps in 60 Minutes ,” “Give a teacher an app, she has a lesson for the day. appsforkids.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 2, 2017

Episode 118 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. He also shares how flexible seating should go with more student voice and choice in their learning. He is an Apple Distinguished Educator, ISTE 2014 Kay L.

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Kyle Pace

APRIL 21, 2014

It’s a great example of one of the many state-sprcific chats we have happening on Twitter. Kyle Pace (@kylepace) April 18, 2014. We need to stop letting these kind of thoughts infiltrate the culture of professional learning among teachers. Don’t worry if it’s too small of movement. Any movement matters!

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The Principal of Change

OCTOBER 20, 2015

We had some great conversations and I later discussed them with the group of teachers that I was learning with. This came back to the students, and they actually offered to bring me a Starbucks to the professional learning day, which was unbelievably kind of them, especially since the closest Starbucks was about 30 minutes away!

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The Principal of Change

MARCH 9, 2016

This lovely woman came up to me during my session the other day, and talked about how she just signed up for Twitter. June 15, 2015 5 Questions To Drive Personal-Professional Learning December 11, 2014 Something’s Gotta Go… November 12, 2013 Individual Learning and Mass Sharing. My response?

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The Principal of Change

JUNE 16, 2016

February 13, 2016 Finding a Way December 6, 2014 3 Ways Social Media Can Improve School Culture June 7, 2016 6 Ways to Use Twitter To Enhance In-School Professional Learning. March 8, 2016 Finding the Good Problems November 25, 2015 Would you tweet that?

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TeacherCast

JULY 16, 2015

OneNote Twitter : [link]. In 2014 Jennifer was recognized as a Microsoft Innovative Educator Expert and is currently a consultant with the Northwest Council for Computer Education (NCCE), a Microsoft training partner, as a Professional Learning Specialist. Twitter: @mtholfsen | LinkedIn [link]. .

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edWeb.net

DECEMBER 2, 2016

He is the 2015 Bammy Award Recipient for Elementary Principal, the 2014 Classroom Teacher of the Year, the TCEA Teacher of the Year, a White House Champion of Change, a National School Board Association “20 to Watch”, and Center for Digital Education “Top 40 Innovators in Education”. Follow him on Twitter @TechNinjaTodd.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 3, 2014

The Learning Revolution Weekly Update June 3rd, 2014 Discovery is seeing what everyone else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought. Albert Szent-Gyorgi The Learning Revolution Project highlights our own "conference 2.0" virtual and physical events and those of our over 200 partners in the learning professions.

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TeacherCast

NOVEMBER 29, 2015

Twitter: @TechEdShow ([link]. Quick Tweet for Multiple Twitter Accounts. Grad Student Necessity December 26, 2014 by dr.j_cyrus from United States I recommend this podcast as one of the resources for the professional learning networks (PLNs) that my graduate students create each semester. TechEducatorPodcast.com.

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The Principal of Change

JANUARY 23, 2017

Creating Meaningful Learning Experiences for Educators (When people wake up for a professional learning day, are they looking forward to the learning, or the hour lunch?). Do not have a series of professional learning days that are focused on a new thing each time. You recreate what you experience.

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The Principal of Change

JULY 19, 2016

Good professional learning will give you lots of ideas on what you can do with your students on “Monday” Great professional learning will make you think about how you teach every day. January 22, 2016 Has “Twitter” Changed or Has Our View?

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The Principal of Change

JULY 12, 2016

David Theriault wrote this really interesting post titled, “ 14 Reasons Why Pokemon Go is the Future of Learning “ My assumption is that David doesn’t believe that we will all be playing “Pokemon Go” in lieu of literacy and numeracy next year, but he is paying attention. As are others. 5 days old. JyBc8w2LKL.

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EdTechSandyK

APRIL 8, 2014

For my notes on Day 1 of this academy, which took place January 15, 2014, click here. Notes from the Discussion We no longer have to go to school if we want to learn. District #5 : Kindergarten teachers started class Twitter accounts! Here is Mrs. Cook''s Twitter. Twitter is his favorite tool for professional learning.

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The Principal of Change

JUNE 13, 2015

You may not have your community all on Twitter, so we have used things like Storify to curate and share our learning and ideas with our community. Having a Twitter account for your school empowers one voice, but having a hashtag, can empower all. A hashtag is not just about communication, but it can be about culture.

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