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What School Leadership Can Learn From 2020

Edsurge

It has also forced school leaders to become more creative, outspoken and innovative in their advocacy and leadership—lessons they will take with them to help drive change in 2021. We are going to need to focus in 2021 on finding them and to accelerate their learning. We must keep pushing for systemic changes to support equity.

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On the Relationship Between Adopting OER and Improving Student Outcomes

Iterating Toward Openness

Leveraging the “No Significant Difference” Effect for OER Advocacy. They had an important role to play in OER advocacy. This thinking, with all the benefit that hindsight affords, doesn’t always reflect well on some of my earlier research. But that’s no reason not to share it.

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How diplomas based on skill acquisition, not credits earned, could change education

The Hechinger Report

The law requires that by 2021, students graduating from Maine high schools must show they have mastered specific skills to earn a high school diploma. I definitely would have struggled [in algebra] if I didn’t have to go through the process of re-taking.”. This year Payne doesn’t expect to lose Kylee or anyone else.

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Leading Teaching and Learning in Today’s World

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The 2021 Driving K-12 Innovation report released by CoSN selected the most critical Hurdles (challenges), Accelerators (mega-trends), and Tech Enablers (tools) that school districts are facing with personalized learning, innovation, and digital equity. By Eileen Belastock. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST. Tech Enablers.

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How much will it take to reopen, catch up kids, and save public schooling long term?

The Hechinger Report

Technology costs have been the greatest, but PPE and safety expenses have played a part as well. For those that closed buildings or turned to a hybrid of in-person and remote learning, it meant buying one-to-one remote learning technology so that every student had a laptop or learning device. Credit: Facebook/Patrick Miller.

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These Educators Grew Up Before DACA. Now Their Students Face the Same Barriers.

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who are undocumented but are able to work thanks to DACA protection, granted before the policy entered legal limbo most recently in 2021. Stuck in Limbo In a recently released report , immigration advocacy organization FWD.us Indeed, it seems like an essential part of their advocacy.

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AI, Instructional Design, and OER

Iterating Toward Openness

Instructional designers need a deep understanding of both learning science research and educational technologies in order to effectively integrate them in support of learning. 2021 ) The impact of LLMs on the economics of creating proprietary materials should be the same as it is for OER (assuming publisher adapt to this new reality).

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