Tom Murray

JANUARY 12, 2016

With school budgets being planned on a year over year basis, the concern over long-term sustainability for digital learning arises. As districts became more in tune with these issues in 2015, the move to Chromebooks continued to grow. Resources: Data Quality Campaign (stat source) & Future of Privacy Forum ).

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eSchool News

MAY 9, 2024

Educators can learn about culturally appropriate communication strategies, strategies for building trust and rapport with families from diverse backgrounds, and approaches for incorporating families’ cultural knowledge and expertise into the educational process. References Hammond, Z. Corwin Press. Ladson-Billings, G.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 3, 2024

When teachers engage in this collaborative culture, they share best practices, develop interdisciplinary projects, and contribute to professional learning communities, leading to more innovative teaching strategies and cohesive learning environments. 57, cited in Vaughn, 2015, p. 2013; Parsons, 2012; Vaughn, 2015, ).

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eSchool News

JANUARY 10, 2024

Lemire realized many other children with reading difficulties did not have the resources and guidance he’d been able to provide for his son. 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.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Because I work with teachers to create performance assessments, learning more about collaboratively creating performance assessments through micro-credentials was a meaningful opportunity. I also help create Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) that benefit teachers (and students) through collaboration and reflection.

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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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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.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 26, 2015

myTeachSource aims to offer personalized and paced professional learning in digital form. The new product, which debuted at the 2015 ASCD Conference on Educational Leadership in San Diego, Calif., Actionable tools, such as checklists, reproducibles, and rubrics to enable teachers to put what they’ve learned into practice.

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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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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. The reality is that we must offer more (and better) professional development with fewer resources.

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Edsurge

MAY 28, 2017

In response to these challenges, the NYCDOE launched WeTeachNYC in September 2015, an online professional learning space for teachers and school leaders.WeTeachNYC was designed based on three core understandings: Educators benefit from having a centralized space where resources and opportunities are easily discoverable.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 7, 2021

But as an instructional leader, I must identify resource-based strategies and bring them into the classroom, making sure the rigor of a lesson is where it needs to be. When I came to this school in 2015, our data from the state of Alabama showed an eight percent proficiency in reading in grades three through five.

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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 Principal of Change

APRIL 9, 2015

(This is the second of two parts on professional learning. Connected Learning. To be successful in helping people develop professional learning networks is to narrow the focus on the tools that are being shared with staff. You can read the first part here. We need to do less, better.

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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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edWeb.net

JUNE 6, 2023

Learn more about this edWeb broadcast, “ Stop the Edtech Guesswork: Make Evidence-Based, Not Anecdote-Based, Decisions ,” sponsored by LearnPlatform by Instructure.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Quizizz-2015. In many schools, students juggle multiple devices and frequently tackle projects that go far beyond rote learning and give them the experience of learning through doing. Homework is increasingly done online, tapping into resources that might have been compiled a state or even a country away. Class Dojo-2011.

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Edsurge

MAY 26, 2017

In response to these challenges, the NYCDOE launched WeTeachNYC in September 2015, an online professional learning space for teachers and school leaders.WeTeachNYC was designed based on three core understandings: Educators benefit from having a centralized space where resources and opportunities are easily discoverable.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2017

How can school and district leaders leverage research-based practices and models of success to create an effective personalized learning ecosystem for all learners? Personalized Professional Learning. Budget and Resources. At the heart of the Future Ready Framework is the learner. Community Partnerships.

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Insight Education Group

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Earlier this month, the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) released its 2015 State of the States report on trends in educator effectiveness across the country. Currently, only 25 states use evaluation data to inform teachers' professional learning. Thank you to NCTQ for such a tremendous resource.

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edWeb.net

MARCH 30, 2021

Once a topic is selected, initial resources can be identified for further investigation and discussion, plans and procedures for the project can be outlined, and a rubric created for evaluating performance and results. Dr. Collins served on the MassCUE Board as PD Chair from 2015-2019. She was named an MSLA “Super Librarian” in 2015.

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Insight Education Group

DECEMBER 11, 2015

In July 2015, Race to the Top (RTTT), a bold federal initiative that offered incentives to spur innovation in teaching and learning, officially ended. Rethink local assessment systems to emphasize the need for fewer and higher quality assessments, and provide professional learning to build teachers' assessment literacy.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

CEL’s educational leadership framework is organized into four “dimensions”—an equitable school community, a culturally responsive teaching and learning environment, effective resource management, and a collective style of leadership. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST. About the Presenters. Join the Community.

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edWeb.net

MARCH 4, 2021

Leaders in the Virginia Beach City Public Schools have been working on their equity agenda since 2015. Train for transformation with professional learning focused on cultural competency and implicit bias. Resources: Provide more support at the central level to implement the framework districtwide. By Stacey Pusey.

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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. Enter micro-credentials.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Equitable Access to Resources: More than just culturally appropriate, rigorous curricula, district leaders also looked at how all staff, time, and money were being used to support all students. Are we providing resources to make sure all students are successful in that program? WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST.

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TeacherCast

DECEMBER 16, 2015

June 19, 2015 by Chopstick Sensei from United States I don’t know how Jeff makes the time for this empire of his, but he’s putting together amazing information to help teachers out. Information from A to Z on EdTech and teaching, it should you your go-to resource. I always take what I learn and teach other teachers.

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edWeb.net

MAY 6, 2019

The community will highlight program implementation best practices and share examples of evidence-based professional learning opportunities and exemplary professional learning programs at the state and district levels.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 1, 2020

As part of the partnership with the Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair Refugee Education Fund, and for the first time ever, Discovery Education will collaborate with local organizations in Lebanon to provide access to high-quality digital learning resources aligned to the Lebanese curriculum for students in Grade 8 – 12.

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edWeb.net

MARCH 3, 2021

With much of the district using remote or hybrid learning models during the pandemic, counselors and therapists have been using telehealth technologies to provide services to students when needed. during the 2015-2016 school year, and was 2.8% Districtwide Initiatives for Educators. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 15, 2016

Job Embedded Professional Development. Professional Learning Communities. A safe and cooperative climate for learning. Support and training to promote continual professional learning. Data to track and promote collaborative inquiry and practices that improve student learning.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Starting with prenatal care and then progressing through reading at home with young children and accessing information about students’ progress, many parents need to be educated about available resources and encouraged to use them. He also works with edWeb.net to write articles on their professional learning edWebinars.

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edWeb.net

JULY 2, 2020

When Project Tomorrow surveyed students in 2015 about what they envision schools will look like in 2020, one student described school as being the place where there would be more educational videos, online class discussions, online games, and texting between teachers and students. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING.

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edWeb.net

JUNE 18, 2021

If your understanding of the Compton area in Los Angeles is based on hip hop songs and a 2015 movie about young people growing up there, you’re likely to be surprised by the tech-focused students and schools in the neighborhood now. He also works with edWeb.net to write articles on their professional learning edWebinars.

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Tom Murray

APRIL 22, 2016

In December of 2015, on the same day that President Obama signed the “Every Student Succeeds Act” (ESSA), the U.S. The plan emphasizes the need for school leaders to develop a shared vision for how technology can support learning and teaching and how to secure appropriate resources to sustain technology initiatives.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Three main components that are critical for addressing instructional loss include conducting universal screening, adjusting core instruction, and considering additional resources and remediation. Dr. Rachel Brown joined FastBridge in 2015 after teaching at the University of Southern Maine for 16 years. Addressing Instructional Loss.

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edWeb.net

OCTOBER 27, 2020

One specific implementation of this approach is the Tomorrow Bus, a mobile innovation lab that goes to district schools and provides a range of hands-on learning activities and supplemental instruction, with older students participating in the guidance and support of younger students. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST.

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