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Edcamp Library Promise Goes Virtual

Digital Promise

During this pandemic year, we have grown to understand the value and importance of staying connected as an educator and librarian community. The Edcamp model of professional development is unique in that the participants drive the learning. Everyone is treated the same and is considered an expert in their craft as an educator.

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How Are Educators Continuing Powerful Professional Learning Online?

Digital Promise

In June, the Edcamp Community joined our Digital Promise family. The Edcamp Community supports educators to organize and participate in participant-driven professional learning designed by and for educators. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, Edcamps were typically in-person and locally focused.

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Digital Promise Brings Edcamps Into Its Tent

Edsurge

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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Looking Ahead to the 2020-2021 School Year

Digital Promise

Despite the complexities of the moment, educators are creative, resourceful problem-solvers. There is an emerging widespread awareness that digital learning is critical to the success of students’ education—certainly now, but also in a post COVID-19 world as we work to finally close the Digital Learning Gap.

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My Journey to Becoming a Distance Learning Teacher-Leader

Digital Promise

Manus shares how these Edcamps supported her practice and work with other educators, and we look forward to the launch of our next Edcamp: Powerful Learning at Home session on November 21. . As I scrolled through Facebook, I saw a teacher post about “virtual Edcamps” being offered by Digital Promise.

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Chaula Gupta Joins Digital Promise as Vice President and Chief Program Officer

Digital Promise

In this new role, effective May 2, Gupta will oversee Digital Promise’s national program team and an expanding international portfolio in partnership with leading international education and education technology organizations. and global education,” said Digital Promise President and CEO Jean-Claude Brizard.

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Why innovation is Crucial in Education #Podcast

The Principal of Change

If every educator in every school pursued excellence instead of allowing excuses about what students can and cannot do, we would meet the needs of all students. “Innovation” is one of the most used words in education right now. That being said, there are many ways that educators are innovative without using technology.