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Amplify: Digital Teaching and Learning in the K–6 Classroom

Tom Murray

Future Ready Schools ® Invites You to a Participate in a Webinar. Tom Murray , Director of Innovation, Future Ready Schools ® , Alliance for Excellent Education. Mobile devices provide new options for students to create as they make a movie, record a song, or publish a blog post to capture understanding.

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9 Great Nonprofits to Support School Leaders

Tom Murray

The Alliance for Excellent Education (All4Ed) & Future Ready Schools (FRS). Connect: www.all4ed.org , @all4ed | www.futureready.org , @FutureReady. CCSSO provides leadership, advocacy, and technical assistance on major educational issues. The Alliance also has run Digital Learning Day for the past five years.

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Framing the Personalized Learning Discussion from Tom Driscoll

EdTechTeacher

Despite the long history of advocacy for student-centered learning, PL has been one of the more elusive reform efforts to actually define. Although we see some value in those approaches in certain contexts, we recognize that only providing this type of instruction is not what we envision as future ready learning for our students.

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Come for the computers, stay for the books

The Hechinger Report

Ray heads up Future Ready Librarians, part of Future Ready Schools — a network for sharing education technology solutions, which is sponsored by the Alliance for Excellent Education, a Washington, D.C.-based based education advocacy group. “It And if it bombs, it’s not on you.”.

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Buncee is headed to FETC19

Buncee

Shannon Miller-Name That Future Ready Librarian Wedge-3PM. Join Shannon McClintock Miller, teacher librarian, and Future Ready Librarian spokesperson, for a fun game of Buncee Doodle, Name That Future Ready Librarian Wedge. You will have a chance to work on your brand and advocacy efforts too!

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8 Ed-tech organizations every teacher should know about

Neo LMS

Focus: EdTech Access and Advocacy. Through the provision of training, policy advocacy, a number of professional events and forums, a range of professional development toolkits and research the organisation confidently asserts that it is at the forefront of developing a cohesive, empowered and knowledgeable community of edtech thought leaders.

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How to be a Teacher Librarian Rock Star

The Daring Librarian

I curate, I share, I write a little, blog, Tweet, chat, plan, dream, and strategize. I curate, I share, I write a little, blog, Tweet, chat, plan, dream, and strategize. Consider, another word for branding is advocacy. Don’t judge me. Sometimes to be the best we can be takes a little extra personal PD time outside of school.

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