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3 Ways to Streamline Expectations While Making Things Easier for Educators

A Principal's Reflections

The fact remains that there was no professional learning to prepare for the reality that everyone is facing nor a plan for something like COVID19. I always like to focus on the small wins when I am facilitating professional learning with schools and districts. My favorites are Mentimeter and Padlet.

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10 Ways to provide differentiation in professional development for teachers

Neo LMS

Differentiation in PD changes professional development into continuous professional learning, with teachers training at their own pace while collaborating with their peers at different levels of expertise. Read more: How edtech supports teacher work-life balance and wellbeing. Use microlearning .

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Crowdsourcing Your K-12 Innovations: Three Lessons Learned During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Digital Promise

This 3-part blog series, featuring guest authors from Michigan Virtual , describes the formation of the Learning Continuity Workgroup and how it has supported their edtech procurement and decision-making processes. But we quickly realized that we needed to prioritize the most pressing issues.

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3 Key Findings on the State of Digital Learning in K–12

EdTech Magazine

Schoology recently released a report on the 2018-2019 state of digital learning in K–12 schools. Using the responses from 9,279 teachers and administrators , Schoology identified three major steps for moving forward with digital learning. MORE FROM EDTECH: Check out how schools should define and act on digital learning.

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Creating Interactive Lessons Through App Smashing

A Principal's Reflections

Educators now shoulder the burden to create lessons and activities that will enable students to learn at home. Virtually none have received extensive professional learning in this area. That is a good start, but not a solution if learning is the goal. So, what does this all mean?

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Can EdTech enable Social Emotional Learning (SEL)?

Neo LMS

Can EdTech enable Social Emotional Learning (SEL)? In this context it may be hard to imagine that EdTech can add to or even improve SEL teaching — as it seems to be a wholly “human-human” interaction. Let’s explore: Project-Based Learning. Implementing new SEL curricula and professional learning opportunities.

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Making Headway with Remote and Hybrid Learning

A Principal's Reflections

They also shared that the facilitation of professional learning improved, a greater reach was achieved thanks to technology, previously unknown teacher strengths were unearthed, and there was the ability to get into more classrooms. Your superstars can also lead professional learning. Don't sell yourselves short.