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

Edsurge

She began her career as a third-grade teacher, later served as director of technology for a school district, then directed a research department at BrightBytes, which helps K-12 administrators and school leaders align school spending with learning outcomes. Companies are seeing the impact that a strong culture can have,” she adds.

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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 This empowers them to be more creative and innovative.

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Virtual Mentorship for Emerging Leaders

The CoolCatTeacher

Or maybe they’re happy in their classroom now being a teacher, but all all of them are either attaining or will be looking for jobs this spring. The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product. Vicki: You are passionate about mentoring.

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Give Teachers Credit: They Know Learning Is Social

Edsurge

Companies] are trying to cut and paste solutions they built for one industry and sell them to teachers and administrators because they feel the market is hot. Virtually all of those companies, along with thousands of other venture-backed outfits during that time, turned into doo-doo. This approach won’t work.

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Flipsnack: A fun way to make interactive online magazines #edtech

The CoolCatTeacher

Mandy Froehlich talks about a tool she uses in her classroom, Flipsnack. Learn how she uses this tool. FlexPath – only at Capella University – lets teachers work at their own pace to earn their MEd in a competency-based learning format. This company has no impact on the editorial content of the show.

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Digital Equity in Rural School Districts

edWeb.net

One of the struggles in Wisconsin is digital learning days, where students with limited or no access to WIFI at home cannot access their education. Outside of the classroom, she is the lead organizer for Edcamp Suwannee and also co-moderates #FLedChat and #RuralEdChat each week on Twitter. Join the Community.

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5 Simple Ways to Improve Teacher Professional Development

The CoolCatTeacher

Coming back from GAETC 2015, I realized that I had been to the conference before but my classroom was unchanged. I would keep a list of the next three things I wanted to learn. I would steadily learn about those things until I integrated them into my classroom. Jones has me helping her with a classroom management problem.”

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