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10 Tips for Instructional Technology Coaches

The CoolCatTeacher

The best Instructional Technology Coaches are partners, culture leaders, encouragers, and easy to work with, says Dr. Katie Ritter. She covers ten essential points for being a successful education technology coach based on her research and her personal coaching of instructional technology coaches and teachers.

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US Edtech Policy Conversations Amidst Coronavirus Concerns with Tom Murray

The CoolCatTeacher

Murray Tom serves as the Director of Innovation for Future Ready Schools® , a project of the Alliance for Excellent Education , located in Washington, D.C. Just make a copy and adapt it for your use or print it. If you don’t have Google Docs, just use this PDF. About Thomas C. You can connect with Tom on social media.

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To Develop Future-Ready Students, Project-Based Lessons Teach Real World Skills

Edsurge

In the course of adapting many of our curricular resources to fit teachers’ changing needs, we have distilled a robust collection of skills into lessons we believe will help teachers foster social-emotional learning, and in doing so develop future-ready students. Are your students future ready? said no teacher ever.

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4 Shifts Protocol sessions at InnEdCO 2022

Dangerously Irrelevant

Many schools have created future-ready vision statements and college- and career-ready profiles of a graduate. This workshop focuses on how to redesign classroom instruction for future-ready learning. New technologies give us new possibilities. Tuesday, June 14. Wednesday, June 15. Related Posts.

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Librarians at the Forefront of “Future Ready”

edWeb.net

Librarians are at the forefront of helping schools become “future ready.” 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. Department of Education.

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The New National Education Technology Plan: What’s in it for Me?

Tom Murray

In December of 2015, on the same day that President Obama signed the “Every Student Succeeds Act” (ESSA), the U.S. Department of Education released the 2016 National Education Technology Plan (NETP). One major theme of the plan discussed in the webinar, is the need to move from passive to active use with technology.

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Are librarians the key to a Future Ready school?

eSchool News

Department of Education’s Office of Education Technology, librarians are at the forefront of helping schools become future ready. Department of Education’s Office of Educational Technology, expanded FRS to position school librarians as leaders in this effort. Future Ready Goals=Librarian Goals.