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Insights from CoSN Community Leadership Award for Digital Equity Winners

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She plans to continue impacting students’ lives through advocacy and consultancy. Dr. Tom Ryan has recently retired from Santa Fe Public Schools in New Mexico as Chief Information and Strategy Officer. She assists education organizations with content strategy and teaches writing at the college level.

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The Technological Transformation of Districts to Benefit All Learners

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Equal access to online learning opportunities has continued to be a challenge, with the focus expanding beyond access to devices and hotspots and now including high-speed access for all students. Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment. Known for his ability to inspire and build leaders, he spearheaded Redefining Ready!,

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Eyes on the Future: Building on COVID Lessons for Enriched Teaching and Learning

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In an edLeader Panel , sponsored by CatchOn, An ENA Affiliate and Battelle for Kids , school administrators emphasized pandemic-triggered changes are lessons learned that can frame effective educational practices moving forward. At the start of the pandemic in March 2020, schools defaulted to online learning.

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As states push for news ways of learning, some kids and parents feel left behind

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We have to engage in a movement,” Susan Patrick, CEO of the nonprofit advocacy group known as iNACOL (International Association for K-12 Online Learning), told the cheering crowd of 3,000 true believers. No more simply “sitting on your butt in class,” as one educator put it. Why are we so stuck in an age-based, grade-based era?

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Despite mediocre records, for-profit online charter schools are selling parents on staying virtual

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Ken Schwartz, a spokesperson for Stride, wrote in an email that the company “does not publicly disclose its marketing/advertising strategies.”). She wants to see online learning taken out of the hands of for-profits altogether. Related: As schools reopen, will Black and Asian families return?

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Leading Teaching and Learning in Today’s World

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Wright’s district created a parent university that provided opportunities for parents to understand what their children would be experiencing and how they could support learning at home. CoSN provides thought leadership resources, community, best practices and advocacy tools to help leaders succeed in the digital transformation.

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How one district went all-in on a tutoring program to catch kids up

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“Frankly, students didn’t lose anything, they just never had the opportunity to learn it,” said Allison Socol, an assistant director at The Education Trust, a nonprofit education research and advocacy organization. And so we always talk about it as ‘unfinished learning.’ ”. When given the opportunity, then they will succeed.

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