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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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Powerful Learning at Home with Edcamp

Digital Promise

As schools and districts across the country transition to distance learning, educators are seeking new ways to engage their students in powerful learning experiences at home. Educators connect and collaborate at Edcamps. We just couldn’t let go of the Edcamp, which led us to the idea of going virtual.”

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Creating Future Ready Schools and Classrooms

Tom Murray

The gears of the FRS Framework are as follows: Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment. In a Future Ready district, curriculum, instruction, and assessment are tightly aligned, redesigned to engage students in 21st Century, relevant, technology-empowered, deeper learning. Personalized Professional Learning.

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The 6 Truths Of Effective Educators

The Web20Classroom

Are Students of their Students- Most educators can attest that if they know who their students are, how they learn and how they think, they can better differentiate for those student's needs. While formative assessment is a key part of knowing who their students are, Effective Educators go deeper. They know what motivates their them.

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Virtual Mentorship for Emerging Leaders

The CoolCatTeacher

Learn about this program, how you can join in, and how you can become a better mentor. Jennifer Gonzalez has released her 2018 Teachers Guide to Technology with over 200 education technology tools including tools for assessment, flipped learning, presentations, parent engagement, video engagement and more.

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Give Teachers Credit: They Know Learning Is Social

Edsurge

The future, and increasingly the present, of educator professional development is predicated upon insights and resources shared within professional learning communities. Based on the feedback and collaboration I received from pioneers within this movement, I am part of a team building a professional development platform at.

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8 Things to Look for in Today’s Professional Learning (Part 2)

The Principal of Change

(This is the second of two parts on professional learning. Connected Learning. To be successful in helping people develop professional learning networks is to narrow the focus on the tools that are being shared with staff. Self-Assessment. You can read the first part here. We need to do less, better.