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2018 Education Innovation Clusters Convening: Looking to the Future

Digital Promise

Excited to learn from other #EdClusters18 it is awesome to know hear about how so many people are working to unite people and find common ground to improve our world in this age of polarizing every subject. Roberts (@DoctorDRoberts) July 17, 2018. — Frank Bonsal III (@FrankBonsal) July 17, 2018. — Demetrius C.

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Using Micro-credentials for Personalized Professional Development

Digital Promise

The ACT Network brings together shared school leadership teams—teachers, principals, central office staff who serve the schools, and community advocates—to analyze a school’s data sources, including demographic data, perception and survey data, learning data, and program data. Micro-credentials are a solution to this need.

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The League of Innovative Schools’ 12 Days of Innovation

Digital Promise

2018 was an incredible year for the Digital Promise League of Innovative Schools and Education Innovation Clusters (EdClusters). We are always excited to invite new districts that are implementing new teaching and learning practices into the League. In 2018, we welcomed 12 new districts: Arcadia Unified School District , D.C.

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Characteristics of The 21st Century Teachers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

When teachers engage in this collaborative culture, they share best practices, develop interdisciplinary projects, and contribute to professional learning communities, leading to more innovative teaching strategies and cohesive learning environments. But culture is an elusive concept and mandates a definition here.

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Data Driven Instruction: How Student Data Guides Formative Assessments

EdTech Magazine

Tue, 10/16/2018 - 11:44. As personalized learning becomes a more mainstream pedagogy in K–12 classrooms, teachers have started to adapt assessment processes to get a deeper look at student growth. . MORE FROM EDTECH: Read more about adaptive learning tools teachers are using in their classrooms! eli.zimmerman_9856.

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Social Emotional Learning: Research & Applications for Distance Learning

MIND Research Institute

An examination of the CASEL model as a means to measure the development of SEL skills suggests that development in one area of competency improves other areas of development, though it’s unclear whether that is because there are then more opportunities to develop the other skills or if they share source skills - or both (Ross & Tolan, 2018).

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Visible Learning Research Proves Micro-Teaching Works. Try It These 2 Ways

Edthena

Remember to think about these things In Visible Learning , education researcher John Hattie conducted a meta-analysis of over 50,000 studies on the various influences on student achievement. But keep the video short and focused for this type of learning. What reflection protocol do teachers utilize to analyze their video?