eSchool News

AUGUST 31, 2017

Digital badging has arrived on the scene as a leading contender to close this gap and help provide teachers with a clear path to professional growth, and the micro-credentials to prove it. Badges help teachers focus on relevant professional developments opportunities because they support personalized learning.

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 21, 2014

Undeterred, I continued to talk about the concept of a Personal Learning Network (PLN) and what it had done for my professional growth. Depending on the semester, all teachers now have 2-3 duty periods off per week to engage in professional learning opportunities. Removing the time excuse didn''t hurt either.

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Edthena

MARCH 30, 2021

Micro-credentials are an emerging method for helping teachers document their professional learning. They offer districts an innovative way to document teachers’ skills while allowing the teachers to share their progress with others via a digital badge. Now these barriers are eliminated.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 19, 2017

Then during the actual meeting focus on one or two very important goals such as the following: How do we improve learning for our students? Have a back channel established and monitored using a tool like TodaysMeet to take educator voice to the next level. Educators should have more choice over how they learn themselves.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Schools should reflect real life, allowing and encouraging students to apply what they’ve learned through the tools they use outside of school. Pillar 2: Professional growth and development: Leveraging tools that allow pursuit of passions. And, how do we measure the impacts of PD on students and student learning?

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techlearning

AUGUST 6, 2018

If we have heard it said once, we have heard it said 1,000 times: Professional Development is Broken For every time we have heard that said, we have also heard suggestions on how to fix it. Schools want their educators to learn and grow, but in practice, professional development is innately broken, or even in some situations, nonexistent.

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EdTechTeacher

MARCH 6, 2015

. “If a child can’t learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn.” Today’s kids want to do real world work with real world tools. They want to be engaged in learning. However, technology is a tool and not a learning outcome. Professional Learning.

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