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8 Education Books For The Digital Age: The Connected Educator Series #CorwinCE

The Web20Classroom

My book, The Relevant Educator ships today. Corwin''s Connected Educators Series features short books, about 70 pages, in both paperback and electronic formats, aimed at helping educators improve classroom practice and educational leadership in the digital world, something that has been sorely missing in the education book world.

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Professional Development Done With Us, Not To Us

The Jose Vilson

For my part, I partook four events: a multilingual learner and teacher meet-up with Alejandra Vázquez Baur, a mentorship session focused on diversity, equity, and inclusion, and a book signing (I can’t believe This Is Not A Test is still selling well after a decade!). That’s healthy for everyone involved.

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Connecting Personalized Professional Learning to a Bigger Purpose

The Principal of Change

When I think about how to effectively empower educators to create personalized professional learning for themselves, I often think of Google’s “20% time”, where employees had 20% of their own time to move forward Google as an organization. “We Let’s start with the second point first.

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How Kristen Swanson Applies Her Classroom Experience to Lead ‘Professional Learning’ at Slack

Edsurge

These days, it involves spending time thinking about Choose Your Own Adventure books. For one of her latest efforts, called Slack Certification , her team developed a series of interactive scenarios partly inspired by those children’s’ books. Pull Learning'. She still chairs the board for the foundation.).

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The 6 Truths Of Effective Educators

The Web20Classroom

Continuously Seeking Out Professional Learning- Effective Educators don't just believe that lifelong learning is a characteristic they want their students to have, it's a mantra they live by. They aren't waiting for their principal or school or district to tell them what they need to learn.

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Taking Control Of Your Professional Development

The Web20Classroom

Many schools and districts are trying to do the right thing by meeting the needs of as many educators as possible when it comes to professional learning. But the reality is most schools and districts are not equipped to personalize the professional development of every educator. Edcamps can help fill that void.

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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. You can read the first part here. We need to do less, better.