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What is an EdCamp?

EdTech4Beginners

Edcamps are organic, participant-driven professional learning experiences for educators across the country and worldwide! I would say the key difference between an Edcamp and a typical educational conference is that they are unstructured and the sessions are based on sharing expertise. Have you been to an Edcamp?

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Virtual Mentorship for Emerging Leaders

The CoolCatTeacher

Jodie Pierpoint on episode 243 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Learn about this program, how you can join in, and how you can become a better mentor. I started this program in the summer of 2017. Twitter: @jodiepierpoint.

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Give Teachers Credit: They Know Learning Is Social

Edsurge

The future, and increasingly the present, of educator professional development is predicated upon insights and resources shared within professional learning communities. Based on the feedback and collaboration I received from pioneers within this movement, I am part of a team building a professional development platform at.

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Year of #SayingYes

EdTechTeam

Through much contemplation, mindfulness meditation, and general clarity - I’ve decided that this year, 2017-2018, is going to be the year of #sayingyes. My goal for my students has always been to learn to think for themselves - to take information and understand it on their level, so it makes sense to them. Yes to new experiences.

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3 Steps to Creating Empowered Leadership in Your School

Kyle Pace

All too often in education – whether that be at a conference, in a professional learning workshop, or even at a faculty meeting, we have become used to one person in the room being the “expert”, or the “Oz” around a particular topic. How about it all just becomes “teaching and learning”? If no, then why not?

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3 Steps to Creating Empowered Leadership in Your School

Kyle Pace

All too often in education – whether that be at a conference, in a professional learning workshop, or even at a faculty meeting, we have become used to one person in the room being the “expert”, or the “Oz” around a particular topic. How about it all just becomes “teaching and learning”? If no, then why not?

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2016 EdTechTeam Impact Report

EdTechTeam

Across all programs, EdTechTeam hired over 200 Google Certified Trainers ( 23 of them full-time employees) to deliver 438 events totalling 4568 hours of professional development in 2016. Official EdTechTeam accounts on Instagram and Pintrest were added in 2016, and the team twitter account now has over 30,000 followers.

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