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Mentoring for Digital Leadership in California Adult Educators

Digital Promise

I have been extremely fortunate to be a part of OTAN’s Digital Leadership Academy (DLAC ), first as a participant in 2016, and now as a coach to mentor other adult educators in meeting their program goals. Each team is also assigned a coach for brainstorming, guidance, and networking. Plus, we have a lot of fun too!

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Crowdfunding Meets Webinar: How One Organization Uses Slack to Tackle Global Challenges

Edsurge

Some new online courses like The Active Citizen in the Digital Age from Stanford University are already moving us in this direction, helping to foster informed civic participation following the 2016 election. Like a webinar, we invite participants to log into a platform at the same time.

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Districts Pivot Their Strategies to Reduce Chronic Absenteeism During Distance Learning

Edsurge

Department of Education reported that for the 2015-2016 school year, more than 7 million students —or 16 percent of all students—and 20 percent of high school students are chronically absent. Its webinars usually host about 500 attendees but that number has grown since the pandemic outbreak. Understanding Chronic Absenteeism The U.S.

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Professional Learning and Development Surveys

edWeb.net

edWeb is kicking off back to school with two webinars and three surveys on professional learning and development! Turk concluded her part of the presentation with the question, “What one thing you would like to see your district do this school year to build more trust and respect for teachers into your professional learning practices?”

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April 22 Learning Revolution Mini-Conference: Emergency Remote Teaching & Learning: Survive, Thrive, & Plan for What Comes Next

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

In moving from classroom-based instruction to online instruction, the role of the faculty member changes from the content presenter to the facilitator of online learning. This session will look at what it takes to create an online learning community that is safe, supportive, interactive, and engaging.

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edWeb Releases Survey on Teacher Professional Development

edWeb.net

The survey was sent by edWeb in March 2016 to 150,000 edWeb members and also to a random sample of 400,000 teachers from the MCH Strategic Data K-12 teacher file. I’ve presented at a conference, workshop, or webinar. We were also overwhelmed at how highly our members rated edWeb compared to other online PD networks and resources.

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Wednesday's "Emergency Remote Teaching & Learning" Mini-Conference - New Sessions Added

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Bell 1:30 PM Empowering Students in a Distance Learning Environment with John Spencer (60 minutes) 3:00 PM Personalizing the Online Classroom Through Creative Teaching and Learning (60 minutes) with Candy Mowen 4:00 PM Rethinking Students Evaluations as a Tool to Improve Online Instruction (30 minutes) with Steven J.