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Using the Learner Variability Navigator for Professional Learning

Digital Promise

All of these factors interact to impact a child’s readiness to learn when they come into the classroom. We’ve found in our national survey, Learning in the 21st Century: How the American Public, Parents, and Teachers View Education Priorities and How to Achieve Them , that only half of teachers rely on research to inform their practice.

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How to Achieve Powerful Digital Learning

Digital Promise

Districts are leveraging the coaches and resources from Verizon Innovative Learning Schools by conducting training sessions for their colleagues to support other schools across the district. Verizon Innovative Learning Schools were prepared for the shift to distance learning. Bridging the Digital Learning Gap.

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Nurturing Relationships and Teacher Needs During COVID-19

Digital Promise

Our team at Lexington County School District One in South Carolina has focused on mitigating one of these complexities by addressing the human need for connection, support, and ongoing professional learning. Supporting Educators through the Shift to Digital Learning. Designing Virtual PL to Go.

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Using your LMS for teaching and professional learning

eSchool News

Picture this: You roll out a new learning management system (LMS) for students, but all of your professional learning is either hosted on a different platform or conducted in person with notes shared via email afterward. Sound familiar?

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Verizon Innovative Learning Schools Recognized for Addressing Digital Divide During Pandemic

Digital Promise

When schools were forced to quickly shift to distance learning in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Verizon Innovative Learning Schools (VILS) team immediately sprung into action to provide professional learning and support to educators within the network—which grew to 264 middle and high schools across the country by late 2020.

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What Do You Need to Sustain a Culture of Powerful Learning that Leverages Technology?

Digital Promise

122 billion of unprecedented federal funding is now available to school districts, providing an opportunity to make significant strides in closing the Digital Learning Gap —but only if we think differently about how schools use technology to meet the needs of every learner. Always-available technology and broadband access.

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How the Substitute Teacher Shortage Is Impacting Teacher Professional Development

Edsurge

Fast forward to September 2022, and I am finalizing modules on Canvas, our learning management system, to continue to deliver the same quality professional learning, but in an entirely different format. This reality is problematic for teachers and necessitates a new approach to providing professional learning.