The Principal of Change

JUNE 5, 2018

It has been and always is, a blessing to be a part of district professional learning days. These past two weeks, I have been so caught up in the passion of so many teachers who are on “summer break,” that are excitedly taking part in their professional learning. Otherwise, it is all cosmetic.

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Educational Technology Guy

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Discovery Education is hosting a free, online conference - 2016 Fall VirtCon - on Saturday, Oct 22nd. Visit this page on October 22nd to watch all sessions.

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EdTechTeam

OCTOBER 14, 2016

EdTechTeam is proud to become an Apple Professional Learning Provider. With 30 full-time employees and 200 contractors EdTechTeam biedt professional learning services for over 50 thousand educators per year in about two boxes countries.

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edWeb.net

APRIL 11, 2018

Continuous, effective professional learning can help teachers and administrators improve teaching and learning, but research shows traditional forms of professional development have become expensive and ineffective. This trend is disrupting traditional models for professional development.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 11, 2020

His best-selling book, Learning Transformed: 8 Keys to Designing Tomorrow’s Schools, Today , co-authored with Eric Sheninger and published by ASCD, was released in June 2017. He’s the husband of a school counselor and dad of two children, all of which are far more important to him than anything shared above.

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eSchool News

JUNE 30, 2016

New survey reveals teachers’ professional learning preferences, trends in priorities. The 2016 Vision K-20 Professional Learning Survey Report is the ninth annual national K-20 educator survey from the Education Technology Industry Network (ETIN) of SIIA, and also is the first survey focusing on online professional learning (PL).

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The Principal of Change

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

I advocated for having both parents and students invited and involved in professional learning days so that they can understand and have a voice in how learning opportunities are changing within our schools. As my friend Joe Sanfelippo always says, “we are in this together.”

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edWeb.net

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

edWeb is kicking off back to school with two webinars and three surveys on professional learning and development! The survey aimed to determine how districts were doing in terms of building personalized professional learning climates, and uncovered best practices and obstacles related to those climates.

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The Principal of Change

MAY 10, 2017

If the professional learning days and times are not directly benefitting students, is this ultimately a waste of resources? This should go beyond “I am going to use this new app”, as that is surface level learning. I have not been able to stop thinking about this in terms of education since.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 19, 2017

“And companies are excited about thinking differently about the role of learning in an organization.” Pull Learning'. Swanson laid out some of her vision for professional learning at Slack in a 2016 blog post.

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eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2016

Legislators pass bill to help deliver high-quality professional learning to educators. Jay Inslee recently signed into law HB 1345 , a bill that adopts a definition and standards for educator professional learning. Washington Gov.

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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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edWeb.net

JANUARY 20, 2017

The 2016 results are in. Who is participating the most in professional learning webinars? edWeb.net just completed an analysis of their 2016 webinar viewership stats for 2016. They hosted 260 professional learning webinars in 2016 that were viewed by 165,000 educators – an average of 635 educators per webinar.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 13, 2020

Many professional learning opportunities give teachers the chance to add to their bank of knowledge, but don’t encourage teachers to put what they know into action. Micro-credentials as a professional learning option. In 2016, I began exploring micro-credentials as a professional learning option for our district.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 7, 2022

I served on the initial advisory board for ISTE’s Standards for Education Leaders (back then, they were the NETS-A) and in 2016 I received ISTE’s global Award for Outstanding Leadership. I have worked with ISTE in a number of other service and professional learning roles and currently am serving as one of ISTE’s Community Leaders.

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Learning in Hand

MAY 23, 2016

The International Society for Technology in Education's annual conference is June 26-27, 2016. ISTE 2016's Poster Sessions. Click the link to see the poster sessions listed for that block in ISTE 2016 program. Wednesday, June 29 (4:30pm-5:30pm) ISTE 2016's closing keynote by Michelle Cordy concludes at 4pm.

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Kathy Schrock

MAY 1, 2019

You can continue to learn on your own using simple online tools and have access to experts from all over the world to help you out. In addition, you can help others with their own professional learning, too! Twitter and chats My favorite personal professional development tool is Twitter. Are there other ways you do this?

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 4, 2019

You interviewed Annette, who also was presenter at ISTE 2016 in Denver, basing her presentation in large part on our continuing partnership. Blog: [link] Twitter: @tww00.

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edWeb.net

DECEMBER 6, 2018

They built an online professional learning program that uses the edWeb.net platform in combination with webinars and 14 virtual specialists in social studies at all grade levels. Our goal was to find a way to provide professional learning for content and instructional support throughout the state of Georgia.

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NeverEndingSearch

AUGUST 12, 2018

Participate.com allows us to pull all of this goodness together for ourselves and for the learning communities we serve. Way back in 2016 I wrote a post about Participate.com, Curating with Communities. It’s definitely time for a revisit.

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techlearning

JULY 28, 2016

The SIIA’s 2016 report focuses on online professional learning (PL) and provides insights on how educators are taking online PL courses, why they take them, and which courses they’re choosing.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 8, 2017

edWeb.net just completed an analysis of their 2016 webinar viewership stats for 2016. The professional learning community hosted 260 PD webinars in 2016 that were viewed by 165,000 educators – an average of 635 educators per webinar. Next page: 7 more of the top early learning PD webinars of 2016).

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edWeb.net

JULY 31, 2017

edWeb.net has won the 2017 CODiE Award for “Best Professional Learning Solution for Faculty and Administrative Staff.” In 2015 and 2016 edWeb won the award for “Best Collaborative Social Media Solution for Educators.” Here is a list of all the 2017 CODiE winners. edWeb.net is free.

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 7, 2019

Based on Eells's research, John Hattie positioned collective efficacy at the top of the list of factors that influence student achievement (Hattie, 2016). Professional learning, funding, and an array of other supports are crucial to not only stay on the path but also to arrive at the intended destination. 2016, July).

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Edthena

MAY 19, 2016

On Wednesday, Edthena, a video classroom observation platform for teacher development, was named the best Professional Learning Solution for K-20 Faculty and Administrative Staff as part of the 2016 CODiE Awards, organized by the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA). Read more at [link].

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Reading By Example

MAY 21, 2016

This teacher is excited about having some of these same students in 2016-2017, as she is looping up. With the first teacher who focused on student-driven learning, she developed a greater understanding about her practice than probably possible in a more traditional professional learning experience.

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Reading By Example

MAY 21, 2016

This teacher is excited about having some of these same students in 2016-2017, as she is looping up. With the first teacher who focused on student-driven learning, she developed a greater understanding about her practice than probably possible in a more traditional professional learning experience.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

2016; Harmon et al., Educators’ experiences during these professional development programs. The impact of this learning on their selection of curriculum and use of culturally responsive teaching strategies. The impact of this professional learning on students’ sense of belonging and achievement.

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 25, 2018

Connected Learner : Leaders model and promote continuous professional learning for themselves and others. The organization previously released the ISTE Standards for Educators in 2017 and the ISTE Standards for Students in 2016. “As ISTE U Promises Unique Learning Opportunities.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 8, 2018

The irony of this is that many of us educators have been successfully navigating the waters of personalized learning for our students, but haven’t been given the opportunity to transition that same approach to our own professional learning. Micro-credentials were my path to do exactly that.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 3, 2018

According to Project Tomorrow’s 2017 Speak Up Research Project for Digital Learning , 56 percent of parents of school-aged children are concerned that their child isn’t learning the right skills in school to be successful in college or a future job. They may be on to something.

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Tom Murray

JANUARY 12, 2016

As school leaders work to implement digital learning practices, they must commit to navigating roadblocks, problem solving, and planning for sustainable, systemic transformation. With the new year now upon us, listed below are six edtech resolutions for 2016. Commit to Personalized Professional Learning.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Simply put, giving teachers choice in their own learning—and making it relevant to their individual classrooms—is an effective way to spread personalized learning across a district 6. Micro-credentials can serve as a scaffolded approach to personalizing professional learning for educators. 2016, May). 6, 2016, pp.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 22, 2016

These detailed stories have the ability to provide great context through an explanation of the following: Goals Challenges Solution Success Overall, a case study provides readers with details on how problems were solved, outcomes achieved, and how investments in professional learning led to a positive cultural shift.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

In a 2016 survey by Harvard’s Center for Education Policy Research, 94 percent of middle school math teachers said they analyzed student performance on tests in the prior year, and 15 percent said they spent over 40 hours on this kind of data analysis. Teachers are spending a lot of time talking about student data.

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EdTechTeam

DECEMBER 1, 2016

It wasn’t until I was out of the classroom teaching teachers, facilitating professional learning, presenting to all content area educators that I realized most educators don't get to experience the luxury of being an elective teacher and how absolute key that was to my (accidental) classroom success. That’s huge.

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Mangum then took the floor to take the attendees back to 2016 and talked about the important edtech trends of that time. She mentioned that blended learning and learning models were the top edtech trends, and defining blended learning was a big deal. SETDA is the principal association representing U.S.

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