eSchool News

JULY 8, 2016

When it comes to useful PD, more educators are turning to Twitter to grow learning networks in 140 characters. These days, it’s hard to meet an educator who hasn’t heard of Twitter. During an ISTE 2016 session, three Twitter experts offered guidance to those seeking to expand their Twitter horizons.

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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.

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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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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. Participate on twitter @participate. It’s definitely time for a revisit. Quick links: Participate.com.

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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

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

On Saturday, November 4, more than 60 educators joined Digital Promise and Maker Ed for Edcamp: Maker Promise , a full day of powerful professional learning through and about making. In 2016, Friends’ Central unveiled The Ulmer Family Light Lab , a makerspace designed for students from nursery to fifth grade.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 28, 2023

About HMH Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is a learning technology company committed to delivering connected solutions that engage learners, empower educators and improve student outcomes. Founded in 2016, Writable is an award-winning assessment and practice solution reaching students in over 16,000 schools and districts.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 8, 2016

Classmates will become the core of your ongoing Professional Learning Network. Develop the solid core of a Professional Learning Network. Class starts July 11, 2016 and ends July 31, 2016. Weekends, discuss issues, concerns, and projects in a virtual group via Google Hangouts or Twitter Chats.

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ignitionEDU

JUNE 30, 2021

A Google Certified Innovator & Trainer, she is known for widely sharing useful resources and lesson ideas on Twitter and Facebook. She earned her Doctor of Education from the University of Memphis, focusing her research on the topic of self-directed professional learning of educators.

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Edsurge

JULY 20, 2016

sending out reminders and raising money on Twitter while interacting with people on Facebook was a huge deal. Both Twitter and the iPhone were less than a year old. What would Twitter posts from the Lincoln campaign look like? What would Twitter posts from the Lincoln campaign look like? I’m curious.

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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. For more information, please visit our website , LinkedIn , or Twitter.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Discovery Education, the Charlotte, NC, based leader in standards-aligned digital curriculum resources, engaging content, and professional learning for K-12 classrooms worldwide, today announced the appointment of Eli Kennedy, the CEO of SMASH , to the company’s Board of Directors. About Discovery Education.

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Tech Helpful

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Below is the excerpt from the ISTE Standards for Educators that describes this standard: Empowered Professional Learner - Educators continually improve their practice by learning from and with others and exploring proven and promising practices that leverage technology to improve student learning. Check this out.

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eSchool News

MAY 11, 2023

Each day, Geneva CUSD 304’s teachers, administrators, and staff seek to educate the nearly 5,500 students they serve within an environment that encourages the desire to learn and meets the unique academic, personal, physical, and social needs of each child.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 15, 2016

The Global Education Conference will take place around the clock during International Education Week ( November 13-16, 2016 ) featuring thought leaders from the world of education and beyond. Proposals will be accepted on a rolling basis starting September 1, 2016, and the call for proposals will close on November 1, 2016.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Lynn Fuini-Hetten on episode 259 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. In today’s show, learn how one successful district has tackled this process and how they are getting buy in from teachers on the vision during the second year of implementation.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 20, 2016

Tell me if this sounds familiar: With the 2016 New Year, you resolved to build your Professional Learning Network –finally, to stop living in the 20th century where your world revolved around a sticks-and-bricks building, a landline phone, and the mailbox. Text is only one way people learn. Keep it short.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Discovery Education is the global leader in standards-aligned digital curriculum resources, engaging content, and professional learning for K-12 classrooms. Together, these resources give educators everything they need to facilitate instruction in any learning environment and create lasting educational impact.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 13, 2016

To implement its use, administrators learned how to coach teachers in using it to design learning opportunities as well as how to gauge teacher impact on student achievement. Be sure to check them out on Twitter. In the 2014-15 school year, we earned a 97.9%

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 28, 2017

Even though this was gratifying work there was still something missing that I could not put my finger on until early in 2016. The learning experience must be redesigned and made personal. Learning spaces must become learner-centered. Professional learning must be relevant, engaging, ongoing, and made personal.

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The Principal of Change

AUGUST 30, 2016

Speaking about the opportunities there are for learning in our world today through technology, I asked educators in the room to do a “Twitter Video Reflection” and share their learning back to the hashtag. Since many of them were new to Twitter, they didn’t know how to do it, so I decided to not help them.

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EdTechTeam

JUNE 10, 2019

If you are looking for more strategies to help your students deepen learning, check out WeVideo Every Day: 40 Strategies to Deepen Learning in Any Class where I share tried and true classroom strategies to help students expand their knowledge and dive deeper into content and 21st century skills. Dr. Nathan D.

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edWeb.net

MAY 5, 2021

This edWeb broadcast was hosted by AASA, The School Superintendents Association and AASA’s Leadership Network, providing premier professional learning for educational leaders. He has taught math in Texas and Oklahoma and is the 2016 Oklahoma Teacher of the Year. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2017

Pedrotti took over as principal of Brook Avenue Elementary School in January of 2016, and Torres joined her that April. Starting with social media such as Facebook and Twitter, the two make it a priority to celebrate the accomplishments of students and teachers in their school on a daily basis. #BrAveLearns pic.twitter.com/O5co6gC4Ni.

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EdTechTeam

MARCH 16, 2017

Leaders who get the chance to be focused on their own growth for an action packed day of learning are better leaders. He is the co-moderator of the Twitter chat #suptchat with Nick Polyak , and he and Polyak co-authored the book The Unlearning Leader: Leading for Tomorrow’s Schools Today (Rowman-Littlefield Publishers 2017).

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The Innovative Educator

OCTOBER 15, 2016

The post shares solutions to three problems: Educator isolation, lack of funding for professional learning, and the need for student and teacher friendly guidelines for using technology. Rounding out the top is Social Media Becomes Key to Forming An Educator Learning Community. What to find out what they are? Check out the post.

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The Principal of Change

MARCH 12, 2017

I asked the following on Twitter: Wide open question…what are some ideas or practices we need to rethink in education? I have neither been a part of a professional learning day where this was asked, nor did I pose it in my role. I am taking part in the #IMMOOC “3 Blog Challenge” this week.

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The Principal of Change

JANUARY 15, 2018

March 29, 2016 Checklist or Art Form? October 25, 2015 The Innovator’s Mindset (The Book) December 10, 2015 Learners Are the Driver June 7, 2016 6 Ways to Use Twitter To Enhance In-School Professional Learning. September 22, 2017 Child-Driven and Data-Driven; Can you be both?

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The Principal of Change

DECEMBER 14, 2017

One of the things that I truly appreciate is all of the amazing educators on Twitter sharing glimpses into their classrooms and professional learning days, making great things happen as the norm in their schools, not the exception. Now do these things happen in every school, all of the time? But they do happen way too much.

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Shake Up Learning

APRIL 27, 2021

Shake Up Learning listeners can get an exclusive 3-month trial for Mote Unlimited by going to justmote.me/shakeuplearning. Thank you to Bobbie Rae Flores on Twitter for sharing her excitement and ideas as she reads Shake Up Learning: Practical Ideas to Move Learning from Static to Dynamic. © Shake Up Learning 2021.

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The Principal of Change

MARCH 26, 2019

on Twitter the other day. Whether it is assessments, professional learning, or the myriad of paperwork that teachers do, the days are not what they seem to the outside. I asked the simple question, “What do you love about teaching?” For the first time in her life. These moments are my favourite thing.

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edWeb.net

JUNE 12, 2019

However, said Jamie Knowles, Senior Manager of Educator Professional Learning Programs at Common Sense Media, social media also has the ability to help users share their stories and shed a positive light on their activities. Enhance student learning: Social media is ubiquitous. Moreover, posts should go beyond announcements.

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The Principal of Change

JUNE 19, 2016

Using 30 second video reflections has become one of my favourite ways to share on Twitter. Check it out below: I’m with my friend Kenneth who is signing up to Twitter and is a principal at #TASSP16ELR pic.twitter.com/qS2LedOKdY. George Couros (@gcouros) June 18, 2016. Cindy Kirby (@CindyKirby05) June 18, 2016.

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The Jose Vilson

AUGUST 19, 2016

Kaden Pagani, 8, left, and his brother Kingston, 6, carry signs as they march down Broadway toward Frank Ozawa Plaza during a Black Lives Matters protest in Oakland on Thursday, July 21, 2016. Image by Michael Short. But if our silence will not protect us, then why do we hold on to it for comfort? There are many reasons for silence.

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

She is a co-founder of #TXLchat on Twitter, which provides a forum for (but is not limited to) Texas librarians to create collaborative connections, share educational resources, and foster lifelong learning. She serves on the TCEA Board of Directors as the Area 7 representative. Join the Community.

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edWeb.net

JUNE 13, 2019

Professional Learning. When we think about professional learning in this new era of education, it is not a linear process. Schools need to create a sense of urgency by supporting the professional learning of their teachers and coaches. Connect with Regina at on Twitter @reginaschaffer. About the Host.

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The Principal of Change

JUNE 16, 2016

March 8, 2016 Finding the Good Problems November 25, 2015 Would you tweet that? February 13, 2016 Finding a Way December 6, 2014 3 Ways Social Media Can Improve School Culture June 7, 2016 6 Ways to Use Twitter To Enhance In-School Professional Learning. Take advantage.

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