A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 7, 2014

As a practitioner I am always looking to learn how to better assist educators at all grade levels. Superintendent Scott Rocco provided me with a great opportunity to not only work with teachers in his district, but to also push me outside my comfort zone, which has always been secondary education.

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The Thinking Stick

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

You integrate AI technology in your classroom, hoping to enhance student engagement and learning. This ineffective action leaves you feeling frustrated and disappointed, as you see little improvement in student outcomes. Does this sound familiar?

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Waterford

JUNE 11, 2020

The COVID-19 crisis is changing the educational landscape, often in unpredictable ways. It’s tough to know exactly what the upcoming school year will look like, but by keeping up on current trends in the educational sphere, you can return to school next year informed, whether you’re in a classroom or teaching at a distance.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 20, 2022

SILVER SPRING, MD (Wednesday, January 19, 2022) — Shawnee Mission School District (SMSD) in Johnson County, Kansas has initiated a new partnership with Discovery Education supporting science education. Discovery Education is the worldwide edtech leader whose state-of-the-art digital platform supports learning wherever it takes place.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Establishing engaging and educational station activities for primary-age students in the English Language Arts (ELA) curriculum is essential for fostering literacy skills, including reading, writing, listening, and speaking. At the same time, the teacher can pull small groups for targeted instruction or support.

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Edsurge

JULY 23, 2018

Moving towards personalized learning can be fraught with tension. Putting vision into practice Any school district knows, creating a vision for personalized learning is useless if you do not provide staff the steps to actually get there. How do you set a vision? What supports do you need in place?

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

At last February’s Board meeting, 10-year old Ryan inspired the adults in the room to see how tech can be leveraged for learning in a whole new light. Ryan had this chance to shine because of Fresno’s Personalized Learning Initiative (PLI), which has been fostering student voice, choice and collaboration over the last two years.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

The project typifies the mix of personalized and social learning that’s been a mainstay for 25 years at King, a founding member of a school network called EL Education. But there’s no common definition yet for what personalized learning actually is.”. Related: Is the new education reform hiding in plain sight?

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

PARAMUS, NEW JERSEY — Savvas Learning Company is excited to announce new and enhanced math and reading solutions that engage and inspire students to learn, while giving educators the evidence-based instructional resources they need to accelerate learning and help all students achieve. “At

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eSchool News

APRIL 23, 2024

From interactive simulations to online databases of primary sources, these tools offer educators a wide array of resources to enrich their curriculum and foster student learning. With the rapid advancement of technology, digital tools have emerged as powerful assets in achieving this goal.

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User Generated Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2020

Almost half of students who responded to the survey are engaged with school (47%), with approximately one-fourth “not engaged” (29%) and the remainder “actively disengaged” (24%).A A closer look at the data by grade level reveals a disturbing trend.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

In October, we will share a guide highlighting the trends, insights and challenges we've learned about while profiling five key players in the world of school redesign. Education Elements provides support for schools and districts as they transform their school models to personalize learning. Stay tuned!

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

In the Florida Virtual School (FLVS), students are learning in unique ways while developing these much-needed skills through individualized and personalized learning methods, said Sarah Sprinkel, FLVS elementary principal. Students work independently with their parents three times a week.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 9, 2022

As an education community, we are beginning to understand the depth of the pandemic’s impact, especially on our students of color, our English Language learners and our students with disabilities. We, as an education community, must commit to the principles of Universal Design for Learning for the benefit of all learners.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 17, 2019

The Kentucky Valley Educational Cooperative (KVEC) is an educational service agency in rural southeastern Kentucky that serves 22 school districts, 134 schools, over 3,000 teachers, and more than 50,000 students. This network helps us organize and maximize resources to advance student outcomes.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

In collaboration with Discovery Education —the worldwide edtech leader whose state-of-the-art digital platform supports learning wherever it takes place—HCS is integrating a suite of award-winning, flexible digital resources into teaching and learning across the district’s elementary and middle schools.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

– Michael Gorman ( 21centuryedtech ) By now you have run into the idea of AI (Artificial Intelligence in education. It helps us by learning, solving problems, and making decisions, just like we do! In education, AI can be helpful. It can make learning more personalized for each student.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Still, teachers are tirelessly putting in their best effort to make distance learning work for their students. Through a large-scale, multi-year, federal project focusing on early literacy, we were able to gather feedback from educators on how instruction has been going this school year. Reimagining Family Engagement.

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techlearning

APRIL 5, 2018

- Discovery Education´s Digital Resources and Comprehensive Professional Development System to Create Authentic STEM Teaching and Learning Environments for Elementary Students- Silver Spring, Md. Discovery Education’s Science Techbook series empowers educators to transform science instruction.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2021

At first glance, the binders incorporating a whole year of learning at the Parker-Varney elementary school in Manchester look a little like Candy Land, the beloved game of chance where players navigate a colorful route past delicious landmarks to arrive at a Candy Castle. MANCHESTER, N.H. — It’s a view that’s catching on.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 2, 2023

Undeterred, Doreen Gehry Nelson, now 86, went on to start her own nonprofit , win a slew of awards and share her city-building teaching methods with thousands of classroom teachers and other education professionals around the world, though not nearly as many as she would like. over how and what students are taught.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 2, 2021

1, 2021) –– The Kansas State Board of Education is providing statewide access to LETRS® (Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling) professional learning for educators in prekindergarten through third grade to individuals entering the early education field. LETRS for Elementary. BOSTON (Dec.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 3, 2024

Welcome back to our insightful series on 21st century education. It’s astounding to reflect on how much has changed in the intervening years in the world of education and teaching. In this latest installment, we turn our focus back to a topic I last discussed in 2011: the characteristics of 21st-century teachers.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 29, 2021

Personalize learning and make it fun for students. In this post, I’ll share how parents can use SplashLearn this summer and why educators should prepare now to set up their free SplashLearn account for the fall. From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Monica Williams remembers the late May day she and first grade teacher Lizette Gutierrez reconnected with the four young siblings from Cable Elementary. No teachers from the San Antonio elementary had heard from the children since schools closed abruptly in March due to the pandemic. We don’t have eyes on our students.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 19, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic has continued to cast uncertainty on education, and the beginning of the 2022-2023 school year is no different. But with some valuable lessons learned under their belts, educators are feeling better prepared for the back-to-school season–one that could be the most normal since the pandemic.

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Shake Up Learning

MAY 31, 2022

Monica loves getting students connected on a global scale and loves to use digital tools like Lumio to create interactive lessons to engage her students. Tune in to learn more about Global Connections Week and other great ideas from Monica! Currently, Monica serves four elementary schools in her district.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 3, 2021

This summer, educators need to get some rest so that we can be our best. However, our professional accreditation requirements are still on track and need to be renewed, as we have to learn and up our abilities for the fall. Social-Emotional Learning. Social-emotional learning (SEL) is right at the top of the list for many of us.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 28, 2023

With built-in student differentiation and support, every student gets a personalized learning experience designed for their unique needs. Jennifer's Podcast: To the Classroom Conversations with Researchers and Educators. She also has a podcast called To the Classroom: Conversations with Researchers and Educators.

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Doug Levin

APRIL 21, 2016

Secretary of Education Richard W. ” This letter marked the launch of the implementation of the first federal program dedicated to ensuring universal access to information and communications technology for improved teaching and learning in the nation’s schools. On November 22, 1996, U.S. House of Representatives or Senate.

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Digital Promise

MAY 23, 2019

Behind strong school-based leadership, the schools built sustainable systems in professional learning and IT logistics and have created innovative ways to leverage their iPads to increase student engagement, communication, problem-solving skills, and critical thinking skills. STEM Culture of Innovation. Model for Sustainability.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2020

Their experience with remote learning helped when schools closed because of the coronavirus. As closures stretched on for weeks and reopening seemed increasingly distant, Shelby County educators had to shift gears. This model, however, embeds teaching and learning of new content in the projects themselves. In the end, it worked.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 23, 2023

Prior knowledge is one of the key concept in educational research that fundamentally reshape our understanding of how learning occurs. Declarative Prior Knowledge Declarative prior knowledge refers to the ‘what’ of learning—it’s the factual information and concepts that students bring to a new learning situation.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

“So that they pursue their postsecondary education goals based on their interests and what’s going to ultimately make them happy and gainfully employed.” There are guidelines, of course, but no scripts, and teachers have wide latitude in determining how to weave career education into their classes. That’s by design.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

As we wave farewell to 2023 , we’re looking ahead to edtech trends in 2024 with optimism for education as a whole. Moving away from the pandemic, educators still grapple with learning loss and academic disparities and inequities. This begs the question: What’s next for education? What are the projections for edtech?

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Graphite Blog

AUGUST 7, 2020

During the pandemic, the upheaval in families' and students' lives affects all of these basic needs, and school leaders and teachers must do their best to focus on well-being and positive relationships -- even more than usual. "Just having students turn in assignments on Google Classroom isn't going to cut it."

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EdNews Daily

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

A new school year has begun and educators will face the task of engaging a new set of students. Cultivating an environment where students are consistently engaged with the curriculum brings a unique set of challenges with each new mix of students and level of study.

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