A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 4, 2020

I have seen incredible lessons and activities that have both engaged and empowered learners through the purposeful use of technology, sound pedagogy, and personalized strategies. For virtually everyone, hybrid learning represents a monumental shift from what has been done in schools.

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 25, 2020

Now I am not saying that all meetings don't have value, but while the pandemic rages on minutes and essential information can be emailed to staff or made part of a collaborative Google Doc. No matter the route taken, this strategy is sure to build up morale. The majority of educators fall into the latter.

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Shake Up Learning

AUGUST 18, 2020

The post How to Create Google Classroom Blended Learning Lessons (Part 3) appeared first on Shake Up Learning. As schools switch to blended learning and remote learning models, educators need to know how to create Google Classroom blended learning lessons that are engaging and relevant for students!

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 10, 2020

Digital leadership can thus be defined as establishing direction, influencing others, and initiating sustainable change through the access to information, and establishing relationships to anticipate changes pivotal to school success in the future. You can’t re-envision or transform education if professional learning doesn’t change.

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Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

What strategies we can implement to reinforce those boundaries, day after day? As advocates of blended learning, Tiffany and I explore both the pitfalls and potential of integrating technology into classrooms. What strategies did you use to combat the students’ reluctance to lean into the learning? If so, how?

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 19, 2020

You can either lurk and learn or develop your own Personal Learning Network (PLN) to farm the best ideas and strategies that are actually working in similar demographics. Consider a daily or weekly YouTube video that can be embedded in a mass email to showcase how teachers are successfully implementing remote learning.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 19, 2023

As educators, there are many new options opening up to us that will help improve our classrooms and make our professional development more accessible and available via our mobile devices. Robert has held various leadership and instructional roles in the field of education, with a focus on online and blended learning.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 28, 2020

Better, more informed decisions can result from “walking in the shoes” of those who will be most impacted by the decisions that we make.” Active listening helps to accomplish both while opening up a leader to new ideas, strategies, and feedback. Research has shown many positive outcomes associated with excellent listening skills.

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 29, 2017

Practices such as BYOD, 1:1, blended learning, personalized learning, classroom and school redesign, branding, makerspaces, professional learning, etc. The DPA creates the context for our work with leaders and teachers, providing authentic baseline data to support personalized professional learning.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 3, 2021

Relationship over reproach: Fostering resilience by embracing a trauma-informed approach to elementary education. You’ll learn how to identify conditions such as PTSD and how to help students through natural and healthy grieving processes. Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment & Trauma, 30(1), 118-137.

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Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

What strategies we can implement to reinforce those boundaries, day after day? As advocates of blended learning, Tiffany and I explore both the pitfalls and potential of integrating technology into classrooms. What strategies did you use to combat the students’ reluctance to lean into the learning? If so, how?

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Shake Up Learning

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

How Busy Teachers Can Find Time for Meaningful Professional Development Click To Tweet How Busy Teachers Can Find Time for Meaningful Professional Development Embrace Asynchronous Learning One of the most significant advantages of the All Access PD Pass is its asynchronous nature. How awesome is that? 3 (FREE Download!)

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Edsurge

JUNE 4, 2018

The idea of using a learning management system (LMS) to deliver professional learning and development to K-12 educators is not new—but it’s not quite mainstream, either. The organization has been providing LMS-based professional learning for the state’s educators since 2004. “We Hint: Think AI.)

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Shake Up Learning

OCTOBER 2, 2020

The post Collaborative Notes with Google Docs appeared first on Shake Up Learning. One of my favorite Dynamic Learning strategies is collaborative note-taking with Google Docs. When students are able to take notes together, it allows them to learn from each other AND gives the teacher a way to check for understanding.

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Michele Dawson, Senior Director of Instructional Technology in Compton Unified School District, CA, and Kelly Urlacher, Senior Curriculum Designer at DreamBox Learning, had a conversation of essential approaches for supporting these students in “ Key Strategies to Making Access and Equity a Reality for ELL Students.”. Leadership 3.0

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eSchool News

APRIL 8, 2021

are motivated to improve teaching and learning in new environments and adopt strategies that promote social justice,” said Matt Kennard, CEO of BetterLesson. Objectives include increasing the use of student data to inform instructional strategy best practices. Learn more about the 2020 matching grant program here.

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Edsurge

MAY 28, 2017

In response to these challenges, the NYCDOE launched WeTeachNYC in September 2015, an online professional learning space for teachers and school leaders.WeTeachNYC was designed based on three core understandings: Educators benefit from having a centralized space where resources and opportunities are easily discoverable.

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Shake Up Learning

JANUARY 11, 2022

The post 10 Things for Teachers to Try in 2022 – SULS0140 appeared first on Shake Up Learning. We will explore strategies, digital tools, professional learning, and much more! Pulling out the most important information doesn’t always happen when students take notes. Read Blended Learning with Google .

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Edsurge

MAY 26, 2017

In response to these challenges, the NYCDOE launched WeTeachNYC in September 2015, an online professional learning space for teachers and school leaders.WeTeachNYC was designed based on three core understandings: Educators benefit from having a centralized space where resources and opportunities are easily discoverable.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Our approach is informed by both theory and the good work of our colleagues across the nation. If you feel you have arrived late to blended and personalized learning, relax. Capacity: Let the “Innovator” Teachers Develop the Professional Development Building teacher capacity was a key focus for our team.

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Shake Up Learning

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

In this episode, Kasey and other presenters from the Shake Up Learning Back to School Conference are sharing highlights from their presentations. Learn Google tips, Leadership Strategies, productivity tools, SEL tips, and more! Teachers will walk away with practical ideas to move learning forward.

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eSchool News

JULY 12, 2021

which contains new tools to help Emergent Bilingual students as they learn academic English and empower educators to streamline instruction and ensure their efficacy.”. This new feature supports a blended learning model and the need for teacher-led, targeted instruction. For more information, visit www.lexialearning.com.

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EdNews Daily

DECEMBER 20, 2019

, teacher professional development?, information and access for families? Those principles include: Intentional Leadership: School leaders championing a coherent and collaborative strategy that ensures digital technologies serve effective pedagogy to raise achievement for all students.?.

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Shake Up Learning

JULY 5, 2022

In this episode, Kasey interviews Mike Marotta, co-author of Inclusive Learning 365. Together they discuss how inclusive learning is meeting the needs of all learners. Mike shares tips and strategies to help teachers shake up inclusive learning in their classrooms. Every teacher should fight exclusion! What is Inclusion.

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edWeb.net

JULY 26, 2021

Learning should be active, socially connective, growth-oriented, and mastery-based, using resilient, schoolwide systems that accommodate both analog and technology-based approaches. Key components include harnessing technology in order to unlock learning potential, changing schools’ culture, and supporting innovation.

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edWeb.net

APRIL 6, 2021

With so much information being collected, there’s a danger that a teacher or administrator could see data that’s not necessary to their job and could compromise privacy laws. The first step was adopting data standards for all of their programs and informing the vendors of this new requirement. Join the Community.

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The Principal of Change

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

In my newly released, self-paced course, “ Developing the Innovator’s Mindset Through Remote, Face-to-Face, and Blended Learning ,” I have been sharing ideas and strategies that you can use in a remote, blended, or face-to-face setting. Self-Assessment. Ideas for implementation. Critical Thinkers.

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edWeb.net

JUNE 12, 2019

However, said Jamie Knowles, Senior Manager of Educator Professional Learning Programs at Common Sense Media, social media also has the ability to help users share their stories and shed a positive light on their activities. Once ready, Knowles suggested some strategies for making the most of the platforms. About the Presenter.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 23, 2021

Before that, as the dean of instruction and blended learning at Seton Education Partners, she enabled St. Nyree White is the director of digital learning at Achievement First Schools, which are in Connecticut, New York, and Rhode Island. For more information, visit www.lexialearning.com. About Cambium Learning Group.

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edWeb.net

JUNE 12, 2020

Daniel Domenech, Executive Director of the American Association of School Administrators, believes that only limited numbers of students will be back in the classroom at any one time, so there will be continued switching back and forth between remote and on-site education as part of a blended-learning approach. Join the Community.

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eSchool News

JULY 28, 2016

Currently, about 30,000 students in the state take courses through Virtual Arkansas and the program employs dozens of teachers, whose experience with blended learning might be spotty at best. When you talk about online and blended learning, they don’t have the background for that. An intense experience.

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eSchool News

JUNE 24, 2016

Educators point to the ability to learn from colleagues, in addition to experts, as essential for enhancing their abilities. Plus, participants will also be a major source of information, sharing their thoughts on trends, experiences, issues and strategies. Personalized Learning Roundtable. Tuesday, June 28, 10:00 a.m.

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Edsurge

APRIL 3, 2017

Traditionally, I controlled the way I presented information to my students by leading most activities, including introducing new material and even reading with them through passages of text. The pilot had another, unanticipated benefit—professional learning. The pilot had another, unanticipated benefit—professional learning.

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EdNews Daily

DECEMBER 20, 2019

From the experiences we provide (iPads, cutting-edge digital library, nationally-ranked Robotics program) to the inter-district professional learning we support (top-ranked VrainWaves podcast), at the core of our program is a belief in technology as a catalyst for learning at all levels. This is real and earned.”.

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edWeb.net

JULY 24, 2018

Using Student Learning Data to Foster a Growth Culture ,” featuring Amy Trees Dodson, M.Ed., Instead of teaching to the middle, they said, educators and students can use data to attack learning. Here, teachers need to understand that what gets assessed gets discussed and learn how to incorporate the information into their lesson plans.

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Fractus Learning

JUNE 25, 2015

Summer is an opportunity when many educators dedicate time to read, find new ideas to implement in their classrooms, and brainstorm strategies to use the in fall. Teachers want to read, share, and learn together. Even more than this, we have modeled blended learning and some cool tools as well. School book studies???

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Shake Up Learning

JANUARY 31, 2019

So no FOMO for Shake Up Learning readers! If you have never seen me present, you should know that my slides are loaded with information and resources so that they can be utilized and shared beyond the session. And if you want to learn more about all of the other goodies shared at FETC, take a look at the hashtag on Twitter, #FETC.

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