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6 Ways to Improve Professional Learning

A Principal's Reflections

The bottom line is that all educators yearn for quality professional learning as opposed to development that leads to sustained improvements in teaching, learning, and leadership. The image below from Katie Martin sums up nicely what educators want out of professional learning. Always make time for feedback.

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Cultivating Lifelong Learners: How to Support Personalized Teacher Growth

A Principal's Reflections

In a world of standardized tests and rigid curricula, fostering a culture of continuous, personalized growth for teachers allows them to stay abreast of current trends and effective strategies, maximize time, and become the best iteration of themselves for the learners they serve. Offer teachers a diverse menu of learning opportunities.

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4 Strategies to Engage Families in Tech Partnerships

edWeb.net

Engagement Strategies The panelists shared core engagement methods that have successfully involved families in critical assistive tech efforts. Practicing Empathy Built into all family engagement strategies is empathy. Are the ideal source of student data, informing schools’ and districts’ data management and sharing.

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15 hot edtech trends for 2017

eSchool News

To get a glimpse into what the next 12 months will hold for everything from professional development to digital learning, and from communication to virtual reality, 15 ed tech luminaries looked back on 2016 edtech trends to help predict what’s in store for 2017. Looking ahead, a renewed focus on energy will take place in 2017.

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Improving Student Outcomes by Implementing Equity Strategies

edWeb.net

Two other data sets can contribute to the equity discussion and strategy development process. To make effective progress, the implementation of equity strategies must be a sustained process that includes new policies and procedures, as well as continued data-driven discussion. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING. Implementing Solutions.

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Georgia Model for Virtual Professional Learning: Supporting Educators During COVID

edWeb.net

In this edWebinar, the Georgia Department of Education (GaDOE) Social Studies team, made up of regional and district leaders, describe how their virtual learning communities on edWeb.net helped them support educators, and their students and parents, during a time of crisis. There’s always a constant growth pattern.

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Georgia Model for Virtual Professional Learning: Supporting Educators During COVID

edWeb.net

In this edWebinar, the Georgia Department of Education (GaDOE) Social Studies team, made up of regional and district leaders, describe how their virtual learning communities on edWeb.net helped them support educators, and their students and parents, during a time of crisis. There’s always a constant growth pattern.