The Principal of Change

JANUARY 30, 2018

Most of my work is now leading professional learning opportunities for educators. So I can understand why during professional learning many teachers rush there to be early, to sit as far away as possible from the learning, or ask questions not to move forward, but to hold on to what they have always done.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 24, 2019

Her most notable awards include finalist for California State Teacher of the Year, 2012 and ACTFL National Language Teacher of the Year, 2015. Nicole is a sought after speaker and facilitator of professional learning on the topics of literacy, student voice, social justice, standards-based grading and more.

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Battelle for Kids

JUNE 28, 2015

July 2015, Volume 2, Issue 8. New Teachers in 21st Century Classrooms. This Month's Essential Question: What readies a novice teacher for high quality instruction in a 21st Century Classroom? If they are not ready for 21st century children, how will they prepare new teachers for careers in those classrooms?

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 4, 2023

We can do this by taking field trips to local museums and historical sites, inviting experts into our classrooms, participating in programs like Empatico that connect students worldwide, creating robust class libraries and using content-rich curriculums across subject areas to build student knowledge. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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The Principal of Change

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

I saw this visual from Amy Fast , being shared all over social media: Now I might challenge the term “rules” because this is more of a compelling vision of a classroom, which I think is so much more powerful and inspiring for our students.

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The Principal of Change

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

Simply processing through writing… Sitting in Adam Bellow’s session this morning discussing “professional development”, I tweeted the following: Does the term “professional development” invoke thoughts of “1 time”, where “professional learning” sounds more continuous?

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 3, 2024

because teaching is no longer an isolated profession; it’s a dynamic and interconnected field requiring teachers to work collaboratively and build expansive professional and personal learning networks. 57, cited in Vaughn, 2015, p. 2013; Parsons, 2012; Vaughn, 2015, ). Recent research reinforces this perspective.

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Tom Murray

JANUARY 12, 2016

This connectivity issue, coined “The Homework Gap” by the FCC’s Jessica Rosenworcel, means that many of the children sitting in our classrooms lose access – and therefore opportunity – the moment they leave our schools. As districts became more in tune with these issues in 2015, the move to Chromebooks continued to grow.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 1, 2017

In December 2015, I found myself toiling away on a fifth grade figurative language lesson in a unique place—a local tech meetup called Code For Vegas. Busker may not have succeeded as a company, but I took the lessons and skills I learned from the tech scene and applied them to my work as a teacher.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 11, 2017

Show Sponsor: PowerSchool This summer, PowerSchool announced the Unified Classroom. The Unified Classroom brings together the teacher’s grade book, learning management system, student information system, and assessment in one powerful platform with just one log in. Learn about the Unified Classroom. Listen Now.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 10, 2024

Over the years, it has added both classroom and professional development resources to help educators successfully deliver literacy education based on the science of reading research. Our team is highly dedicated and has provided the most effective products for students and educators in today’s classrooms,” said Gaehde.

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edWeb.net

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Almost 10,000 early childhood educators traveled to Orlando, Florida from across the United States and from as far as Hong Kong to attend the 2015 NAEYC Annual Conference & Expo. Frog Street’s emphasis on the Expo floor this year was on helping early learning educators enhance their own professional development.

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The Principal of Change

APRIL 4, 2015

What if we created professional learning opportunities that were not only engaging, but also empowered educators in the change process? If you do “Inquiry Based Learning” in your professional learning, I would love for you to leave a link in the comments.). Andrew Campbell (@acampbell99) March 29, 2015 .

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eSchool News

JUNE 15, 2023

Swing believes that every classroom deserves a teacher, and every student deserves to learn without disruption. Since its founding in 2015, Swing has worked to improve the experience of being a substitute teacher and made it easier for K-12 schools to grow and manage their substitute teacher pools. “The

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 7, 2021

There is the management piece, which is a day-to-day operation, but you also have the instructional piece to ensure that quality instruction is taking place in each of the classrooms. When you go into the classroom, you want to let the teacher know that this is not a “gotcha” moment. How do you straddle that line with your teachers?

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The Web20Classroom

AUGUST 19, 2014

But if you ask teachers who have never used a social network, blog, or mobile device for learning in their classrooms to discuss connected education, you are likely to be met with blank stares, furrowed eyebrows and shrugged shoulders. Several more are currently in production and scheduled for publication in early 2015.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 15, 2016

During the 2015-16 school year, I visited schools across the nation to see how technology can transform teaching and learning. what makes the difference between using edtech to supplement the classroom experience and using it to transform learning? Professional development. The “digital divide” is still very real.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 1, 2016

is to transform BCPS into a student-centered, personalized learning environment. To affect this change district-wide, BCPS needed to shift professional learning for educators to a more competency-based, autonomous model. principles in the classroom if teachers reinforced the skills for themselves. environment.

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eSchool News

JULY 20, 2022

SILVER SPRING, MD (Wednesday, July 20, 2022) —Hawaii’s Kihei Elementary School today announced that it has expanded its partnership with Discovery Education, which has supported the school’s educators in creating engaging digital learning environments since 2015. We are excited to begin the school year with these new resources.”.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

This latest deal—the ninth since Gulati joined in 2015—is part of PowerSchool’s ongoing drive to create a one-stop shop where data about a student or teacher can be collected and shared across the different tools they use in their day-to-day lives. Some of those assets expanded its footprint in the SIS market, like Sungard K-12 and Chalkable.

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

In the ‘90s, it made a big jump with machine learning. By 2015, AI integration into search engines and educational tools became ubiquitous with the next leap coming in 2022 with ChatGPT, which is fueling applications in areas like intelligent tutoring systems, automated essay scoring, assistance with coding, and more.

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The Principal of Change

APRIL 6, 2015

Over two years ago, I wrote “ 8 Things To Look for in Today’s Classroom ”, and more recently, Sylvia Duckworth created the above visual that has been shared numerous times. As I am in the process of going deeper into the topic, someone asked me if this is something that we could do in professional development. ” Click To Tweet.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 21, 2015

note : We’re counting down the top stories of 2015 based on popularity (i.e. Today we revisit our in-depth look at how to set up your own professional learning communities , which truly serve educators’ needs. Practical tips for building PLCs that serve every educator. website traffic) to No. Benefits of PLCs.

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Edsurge

APRIL 3, 2017

When Vadim Polikov—my childhood friend and a successful entrepreneur—approached me with a game-based learning business idea in the summer of 2015, I jumped at the idea. . Vadim wanted to create enough curriculum games so they would be effective daily learning tools in schools. blended learning technique.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 5, 2022

In the C&I department, Katie supervises a team of 15+ instructional design coaches that serve about 20 school districts, oversees a national coach mentorship program, and also created and oversees Edge•U Badges, an anytime anywhere professional learning program for educators. Give Grace and Love to Teachers Vicki: Yes.

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Edsurge

JULY 12, 2019

But interest in them among educators and school administrators has been growing ever since for-profit online education provider Udacity began offering sophisticated “nanodegrees” in 2015 tailored to the specific needs of potential employers, such as Google and AT&T. And the paper’s authors acknowledged this inevitability. “[T]he

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Discovery Education —the Charlotte, North Carolina based global leader in standards-aligned digital curriculum resources, engaging content, and professional learning for K-12 classrooms—today announced the appointment of Scott Kinney as its new Chief Executive Officer and Kelli Campbell as the company’s new President.

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The Principal of Change

APRIL 9, 2015

(This is the second of two parts on professional learning. It is based on the visual below that was created by Sylvia Duckworth and adapted from “ 8 Things to Look for in Today’s Classroom “ ). Connected Learning. This has a major impact in our learning today. You can read the first part here.

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EdTechTeacher

MARCH 6, 2015

Eric Sheninger, Senior Fellow and Thought Leader on Digital Leadership with the International Center for Leadership in Education (ICLE) and Scholastic Achievement Partners (SAP) , kicked off the 2015 Leading Future Learning conference with his keynote on Digital Leadership. Students could learn anywhere that they like.

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Class Tech Integrate

JULY 16, 2018

The question always is, "how am I going to implement all of these great things into my classroom next year?" A few years back, Feb of 2015, I was able to attend a summit from the EdTechTeacher team. The Someday/Monday approach is simple, but important to those of us that love to soak in tons of professional learning.

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EdNews Daily

MAY 29, 2017

Parallel statistics on teacher job satisfaction, down nearly 25%, daily stress, up around 50%, and the majority of learning coming from colleagues on the job (Harvard Report), tells us the 68 hours/year and 18k/teacher for PD is lacking. Professional Learning (skills, knowledge, theory). With research from the U.S.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 8, 2016

The Friday Institute for Educational Innovation at North Carolina State University recently scaled access to professional learning content for educators by taking advantage of the Massive Open Online Courses for Educators (MOOC-Eds) format. The true goal is for educators to apply what they’ve learned meaningfully in the classroom.

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Digital Promise

MAY 29, 2015

When you talk to actual school leaders and educators around the country, the discussion has shifted from “ Should we use technology in the classroom?” ” to “ How do we best support teaching and learning with technology?” Support research that expands what we know about teaching and learning.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 25, 2017

This hands-on, authentic process re-establishes learners as active contributors of their learning environment by providing true agency through the connection of interest with impact. Micro-credentials can serve as a scaffolded approach to personalizing professional learning for educators. Student portfolios: Classroom uses.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Google, which officially debuted Classroom in 2014, is arguably as widespread in schools as Google’s usage is in the workplace. Google Classroom-2014. Quizizz-2015. But in the past, many of the “professional learning experiences” offered to them have been flaccid or poorly designed. Class Dojo-2011. Clever-2012.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 16, 2015

This post is part of a series on the big ideas and ongoing conversations from the 2015 #MC4PD Summit. In the previous post, we discussed building authentic cultures of professional learning. Today, we explore one of the design principles at the heart of micro-credentials – embracing learning as continuous process.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 7, 2022

For example, student achievement in their classrooms might increase by the same 50 points every year. But now, a new nonprofit organization that seeks to improve teaching, the Research Partnership for Professional Learning, says the conventional wisdom that veteran teachers stop getting better is one of several myths about teaching. “It’s

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