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Overcoming Social Media Fears

Tom Murray

Recently, I had the opportunity to connect with Dr. Amy Fast at one of our Future Ready Institutes. Lead by example and model the way Amy shares that, “The more transparent we can be as leaders…the more people feel connected to us and want to invest in our mission and our schools.”

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7 Questions Principals Should Ask When Hiring Future-Ready Teachers

MindShift

For example, red might be the most difficult parts of the article, blue could be the key ideas, and yellow could be difficult vocabulary. Sarah Strong (@sstrong57) June 9, 2017. He loves the example of fan fiction. The teacher can paste any text into Prism and make a legend for highlights. PBL + #Math = beautiful work!

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7 Ways to Close the Access Gap

Tom Murray

Community Partnerships is one of the gears of the Future Ready Framework and the 7th Key of Learning Transformed , indicates that “Community collaboration and engagement must be woven into the fabric of a school’s culture.” Note: Check out Future Ready Librarians for librarians that think like this!).

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This Tech Encourages Career Planning When It Matters Most—Before Graduation

Edsurge

With that in mind, Lee implemented Xello , a career and college-readiness platform designed to boost students’ future readiness and make career planning more student-centered. It’s sad to me when students don't know what their future holds; I worry about those kids. This year, we switched to Xello.

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Effective Digital Citizenship Education

The CoolCatTeacher

An exciting example: privacy and security. So let me give you a quick example. Vicki: And digital citizenship is something that concerns all of us in all of our examples. We had students always talking about privacy versus security. Transcribed by Kymberli Mulford kymberlimulford@gmail.com. Bio as submitted.

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5 edtech tools that take personalized learning to the next level

eSchool News

Highlights of VITAL include a virtual homeschool, blended and online learning across every one of our schools, course recovery to ensure students stay on track to graduate, and course acceleration—all with the goal of preparing students to be future ready. Intentional design.

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#ICE18: Redesigning a Classroom Is Not About Being “Pretty for Pinterest”

EdTech Magazine

“It’s imperative that classroom design is driven by the desire to create personal and authentic learning experiences for students,” says Tom Murray, director of innovation for Future Ready Schools , a project of the Alliance for Excellent Education. How does the technology actually improve on what we’ve done in the past?”

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