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Pillars of Digital Leadership Series: Professional Growth

A Principal's Reflections

However, the mounting pressure from ridiculous mandates as a result of the current education reform movement and massive budget cuts across the country, have made it a challenge to learn through traditional pathways. Digital leaders seize the opportunity to grow and learn like never before through a connected model of leadership.

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Autonomy Breeds Change

A Principal's Reflections

They desperately sought time during the school day to engage in professional growth opportunities, learn how to integrate Web 2.0 tools, and develop their own Personal Learning Networks (PLN’s). Math teacher Jeff Fiscina learned how to create engaging learning activities using Educreations.

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Roadmap to a Job-Embedded Growth Model

A Principal's Reflections

Undeterred, I continued to talk about the concept of a Personal Learning Network (PLN) and what it had done for my professional growth. PGP time for the past two yeas has been dedicated for my staff to become better educators and learners. The have been encouraged to find their passion and work to define their purpose.

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Learn to Blend Tech into Your Class; Get College Credit

Ask a Tech Teacher

The 21 st Century lesson blends technology with teaching to build a collaborative, differentiated, and shared learning environment. Classmates will become the core of the teacher’s ongoing Personal Learning Network. Use technology to support teaching and achieve Common Core Standards. Thanks everyone!

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35 Take-aways from Summer 2016 Professional Development

Ask a Tech Teacher

We experimented with some of the hottest tech tools available for the classroom such as Google Apps, differentiation tools, digital storytelling, visual learning, Twitter, blogs, Common Core and tech, digital citizenship, and formative assessment options. They worked together as a Personal Learning Network.

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17 Take-aways from Summer PD

Ask a Tech Teacher

Some had been teaching for thirty years and still enthusiastically embraced everything from twitter to the gamification of education. Lots of questions, often directed to each other–for clarification, personal experience, or simple collegiality. Participants worked together as a Personal Learning Network to understand.

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Online Classes! On Your Schedule

Ask a Tech Teacher

All are online, hands-on, with an authentic use of tools you’ll want for your classroom. The 21 st Century lesson blends technology with teaching to build a collaborative, differentiated, and shared learning environment. Classmates will become the core of your ongoing Personal Learning Network.