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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. Image credit: [link] The ever-increasing mandates at the state level impacting evaluation and curricular alignment to the Common Core have taken their toll as well.

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Leadership Ignited

A Principal's Reflections

This year, they have decided to rely instead on what NASSP members have reported as the issues that keep principals up at night, such as Common Core implementation, new teacher evaluation models, and dropout prevention and graduation rates. Feature chat sessions combined with some basic social media training.

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Online Classes! On Your Schedule

Ask a Tech Teacher

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. These can be adapted to any writing program be it 6+1 Traits, Common Core, or the basic who-what-when-where-why. social media. Certificate.

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Creative Coding and Robots in the Classroom

edWeb.net

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.

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Here's what you missed at the MidWest Technology Conference 2014 #METC14

MSEDTechie

I co-presented two workshops this year. link] [link] [link] social media - @METCenews [link] Solution for a teacher Web site, assignment submission, and a dozen other things that we do in a dozen different ways, but all in one place. Screencastomatic - Free online screencast Paul Bogush 15 assessments that don''t suck.

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Online College Classes Start Monday!

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social media. Understand the secrets to picking good digital writing tools while working with classmates in a hands-on and non-threatening writer’s workshop format. These can be adapted to any writing program be it 6+1 Traits, Write Source, IB, Common Core, or other popular language arts curricula. cyberbullying.

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College Credit Classes in Remote Teaching/Blended Learning

Ask a Tech Teacher

social media. Understand the secrets to picking good digital writing tools while working with classmates in a hands-on and non-threatening writer’s workshop format. These can be adapted to any writing program be it 6+1 Traits, Write Source, IB, Common Core, or other popular language arts curricula. cyberbullying.