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Many Frustrated Teachers Say It’s Not Burnout — It’s Demoralization

Edsurge

in the midst of a growing teacher shortage, which according to researchers at the Economic Policy Institute is only getting bigger. She says she loved working in elementary school but the switch to middle school was tough. After years of requests, she received a transfer to an elementary school, where she now teaches second grade.

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Merritt Public Schools: How a Rural Oklahoma District Developed its Digital Learning Program

Education Superhighway

Walking into a Merritt Elementary School classroom today, you’ll find students using iPads to figure out math problems and submit their answers, while teachers grade those answers and provide feedback and follow-up support in real-time. The changes in technology use that Merritt’s leaders advocated were initially met with resistance.

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Three Ways That Rural States Can Become the Hotbeds for School Edtech Innovation

Edsurge

It happened back in 2008 when new policies and funding sources were put forth with the intent to grow school districts’ abilities to supplement and meet the diverse needs of students—specifically in the face of foreign language teacher and Advanced Placement honors-level course shortages. We can be the example.

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Effective Digital Leadership: Moving Our Schools Forward

EdTechSandyK

Edcamps - unconferences where there aren''t traditional keynote speakers or vendors. Royse City is hosting EdCamp Awesome in Feburary 2014. Ex: Creating elementary student handbook. Please see specifics on my re-use policy in the right-hand column of my blog before re-posting/re-using any of my blog content.

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Connecting Teaching, Learning, & Leadership

EdTechSandyK

Mazza was the Lead Learner at Knapp Elementary School. (He Evolution of policies around connectivity for all. Blurring lines between local and global PLN Ex: Use PLN to connect with classes all over the world for mystery Skype, etc Policy Built to protect organization or encourage innovation on the part of all stakeholders?

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Understanding The Deep Fake: A Troubling Trend

The CoolCatTeacher

In 2013-2015 he taught 4th and 5th grade STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) at Independence Elementary in Yukon Public Schools in Oklahoma. He is an organizer for Oklahoma EdCamp and the PLAYDATE OKC professional development conferences. He is the Director of Technology for the Casady School in Oklahoma City.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” More on the policy change via IHE. The winners of this year’s Harold W McGraw Jr Prize in Education : Dr. Christine Cunningham, Founder and Director of Engineering is Elementary (EiE) at the Museum of Science; Dr. Sandy Shugart, President of Valencia College; and Chris Anderson, TED “curator.”