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Professional Learning School Leaders Need and Deserve

A Principal's Reflections

If in-district professional development wasn''t bad enough, I also attended my fair share of workshops and conferences that were a complete waste of time. I attended many of these events just to meet the required hours of professional development. Digital Leadership ICLE Jimmy Casas Principal Academy professional learning'

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Pillars of Digital Leadership Series: Professional Growth

A Principal's Reflections

Without funding, many districts no longer allow leaders to travel to national/state conferences or even attend local workshops. These are not the meaningful, rich, and relevant learning opportunities that leaders of today’s schools deserve or yearn for.

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What Constitutes Good PD?

A Principal's Reflections

Educators now have to attend mandate-driven workshops on the Common Core, teacher/principal evaluation, and student growth objectives. Below are some effective strategies, ideas, and learning opportunities that will provide you and your school the means to invigorate professional development to get real results.

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3 Ways a Company Can Personalize Its Support for Teachers

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Working together over the course of the year, we—at Torah Academy and Kiddom—together learned three powerful lessons about how to deliver personalized support to educators: 1. Teachers learned how to move their existing curriculum from Google Drive into collaborative Kiddom classes.

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Online Classes! On Your Schedule

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Classmates will become the core of your ongoing Professional Learning Network. Educators participate in this three-week hands-on quasi-writer’s workshop as they learn to use widely-available digital tools to help their students develop their inner writer. Teach Writing with Tech. Certificate.

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Harnessing Powerful Ideas: Leading One-to-One

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For example, our district is also implementing the Arizona College and Career Ready Standards (known in other states as the Common Core State Standards); therefore, it''s imperative that we connect and communicate how technology is built into the standards. What percentage of the tech budget goes towards educator PD?

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Creative Coding and Robots in the Classroom

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Two common computer science misconceptions are that it’s just about programming and that only teachers with computer science degrees should teach it. As early as kindergarten, Common Core math requires students to see math abstractly with numbers, concretely with objects, and visually with pictures. About the Presenters.