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An Onboarding Course to Help Your New Edtech Hires Empathize With Educators

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Like many fellow founders in this space, I left the classroom to create solutions to the challenges that I faced as a teacher and tech director. The program is designed for our employees to build knowledge of what actually happens in classrooms, as well as an understanding of the deep tensions and issues with our educational system.

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Investing in leadership capacity: The amazing, wonderful District 59

Dangerously Irrelevant

– Getting set up with Twitter and our new hashtag. traditional classroom ‘projects’ (how is PBL different from what we normally do in our classes?) Having time to work DEEPLY with colleagues – the time to really start to wrap our minds around what all of this actually needs to look like within the classroom setting.

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From Personalized Math to Micro-Schools, This NewSchools Cohort Is Reimagining Learning

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Scott Benson NewSchools Venture Fund Twitter: @scottb_edu So their two organizations decided to work together, creating The Collaborative—a ten-month, intensive professional-development experience for ten school districts and charter school management organizations from across the country. And he said, ‘Good question. How’d you do that?

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Addressing the Digital Learning Gap with Effective Educator Coaching

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However, in other scenarios, students are engaged with lower-level uses of technology such as test preparation, reading static online content, and seemingly endless drill and practice exercises. While there are many ways that teachers develop their competencies, one research backed strategy is classroom coaching.

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Learning Revolution Free Events - ISTE Unplugged + Hack Education - AERO - Gaming in Ed Call for Proposals - Students Driving Change

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

[link] Introduction to Mind Amplifiers June 11 - July 10, 2014: A five week course using asynchronous forums, blogs, wikis, mindmaps, social bookmarks, synchronous audio, video, chat, and Twitter. New Classroom 2.0 Karen Cameron shares her list in the Classroom 2.0 More information at [link]. 5 Musts for Reading Teachers.