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Valuing Professional Learning through Micro-credentials

Digital Promise

Districts across the nation are exploring a new approach to professional learning to meet the evolving needs of today’s diverse classrooms and the educators who lead them. We look forward to continuing to learn from them and the many other states and districts engaging with micro-credentials for professional learning.

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Educator Micro-credentials are Grounded in Research

Digital Promise

Micro-credentials offer an important opportunity for educators to strengthen their professional learning. Digital Promise’s new white paper examines how the organization has ensured the content of micro-credentials and the process for earning them are anchored in rigorous research. . …

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Leading the Integration of AI in a School System

edWeb.net

According to Larry Cocco, Senior Professional Learning Consultant at edWeb.net, it really is a form of “machine learning based on training,” which provides responses based on probability. Learn more about this edWeb broadcast, AI: Embracing the Opportunity , sponsored by Eduscape.

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#AskExcelinEd: What does it look like when a state takes assessment literacy seriously?

ExcelinEd

Assessment literacy is essential to make important decisions about students, educators, schools and state and local policy based on student data. Michigan Takes Assessment Literacy Seriously. In 2016, the Michigan State Board of Education endorsed Assessment Literacy Standards published by the Michigan Assessment Consortium.

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Creating a Vision for Your School and Getting Buy In from Stakeholders

The CoolCatTeacher

Tell us about some of those learning beliefs, about what you want your classrooms to look like. Tell us about your learning beliefs. So we actually learned through Education Reimagined. We read their white paper for transforming teaching and Learning. Lynn: Sure. We’ve adopted some of their core beliefs.

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How Schools Can Create Foundations For High Quality Teaching

MindShift

They wanted to find out what good teaching looks like, how teachers learn to do it and what supports they need to spread those ideas. The white paper puts the problem bluntly: “Plainly put, there is no one responsible for producing actionable, practical knowledge about teaching. SOLVING THESE PROBLEMS.

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Observation and self-reflection in the classroom

Kathy Schrock

In a study group or professional learning community, educators can dissect the lesson and methodologies used in the videos and come up with ideas for use in their own classroom when using Discovery Education Streaming or Techbook. These videos can be used in a number of ways to enhance classroom instruction. Register today !