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Edcamp Finds a New Home at Digital Promise

Digital Promise

Digital Promise is incredibly excited to welcome the Edcamp Foundation to our family of projects and programs. By fully merging our operations, we believe we can do even more to support the community of educators who organize and attend Edcamps across the United States and around the world.

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Digital Promise Brings Edcamps Into Its Tent

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For years, organizers of “ Edcamps ,” a popular brand of informal professional development gatherings for teachers, received a resource kit sent by their host organization, the Edcamp Foundation. Last week, Digital Promise announced it had acquired the assets and operations of the Edcamp Foundation. It began with a box.

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Today’s Classrooms Should Be About Flexible Teaching—Not Furniture

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At the end of June a group of passionate, dedicated educators gathered for one of New Jersey’s last EdCamps of the 2017 school year. Some offered contact information about “classroom designers” and school vendors. If the kids are laying on the rug reading, then why not plop down next to them and have your conference right there?

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5 Ways to Participate in #ISTE17 even if you’re not there #notatiste17

The CoolCatTeacher

I am so excited to be at ISTE with PowerSchool on Monday June 26th, 2017 at 4 p.m. You will also want to come by PowerSchool’s Classroom of the Future in 207A where they will be giving away Apple Watches, Microsoft Surfaces and Amazon Echoes. For those of you not at ISTE check out the Unified Classroom at [link]. Listen Now.

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Virtual Mentorship for Emerging Leaders

The CoolCatTeacher

I started this program in the summer of 2017. Jody: We started in August of this year, so August 2017. Or maybe they’re happy in their classroom now being a teacher, but all all of them are either attaining or will be looking for jobs this spring. So Jody, tell us a little bit about what you’re doing. Jody: Thank you, Vicki!

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Coming This Summer: Powerful, Peer-Led Professional Development That Won’t Bore

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When was the last time you walked into a conference without an agenda? For us, it was at EdFoo 2017 , an un-conference of teachers, edtech gurus, funders and others gathered at Google’s Silicon Valley headquarters for three days of spontaneous learning. Or, for that matter, without the slightest idea of what you might learn?

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Give Teachers Credit: They Know Learning Is Social

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Teachers in 2017 are more likely to learn from a Twitter chat for education than most “sit and get” professional development sessions hosted by their school or district. Many left the classroom and are now evangelizing the power of social media and education around the world and during conferences like ISTE. Here’s why.

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