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JUNE 26, 2015

In November of 2014, President Obama challenged district superintendents to sign the Future Ready Pledge. By signing, school leaders committed to working with teachers, families, and community members to transition their districts to "personalized, digital learning.". What does it mean to be a Future Ready School?

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Digital Promise

JUNE 14, 2016

million students, the League of Innovative Schools is a coalition of education leaders use their collective voice to advance positive change in public education, as exhibited by a powerful series of TED talks delivered this April. Representing 73 districts, 33 states, and 3.2 Full Circle Images. Full Circle Images.

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Tom Murray

JANUARY 12, 2016

From Providence, Rhode Island to Phoenix, Arizona, I’ve had the privilege to travel and work with over 2,300 district leaders from almost 500 school districts over the past year through the Future Ready Initiative. These concerns are real and often become roadblocks for student learning.

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Tom Murray

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

During my time as a public school employee, I’d occasionally hear about educational organizations that were working to support schools in some capacity. Founded in 1865, AASA is the professional organization, comprised of over 13,000 educational leaders in the United States and throughout the world.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 6, 2019

The learning experience must be redesigned and made personal. Learning spaces must become learner-centered. Professional learning must be relevant, engaging, ongoing, and made personal. Technology must be leveraged and used as an accelerant for student learning. It’s hard to argue with any of these.

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edWeb.net

OCTOBER 17, 2023

During the edLeader Panel “ A Roadmap to Employability: Integrating Higher-Order Skills Into Curricula and Assessment ,” distinguished speakers shed light on crucial aspects of education policy, funding, and curriculum development, with a focus on preparing students for employability and entrepreneurship.

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Edsurge

MAY 31, 2017

Those experiences have sharpened our desire to prepare this generation of students to become successful citizens in a global society by putting to rest the weary industrial model of education and shifting to a more personal approach. Learning Transformed. Key #4: Learning spaces must become learner-centered.

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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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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

“Don’t call it professional development—call it professional learning.” The panelists recommended that educational leaders take a deep breath and recognize that there is a crisis happening in our districts. .” Effective Models of Professional Development. ” Jill Abbott Sr.

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edWeb.net

JUNE 30, 2018

He currently co-leads a Future Ready Administrators principal team to foster professional learning and he is working with the director of curriculum to define a blended and personalized learning framework to help implement digital content and services. Mark has presented at ISTE, SXSWEdu, FETC, CUE, and AASL.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 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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edWeb.net

JUNE 26, 2018

College and career readiness has grown to be a hot topic that is on the mind of every educational leader in the nation. But being college and career ready takes more than just career counseling or use of software in the classroom, it takes personalized, differentiated instruction that starts at an early age.

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edWeb.net

JULY 22, 2019

How do you approach purchasing education technology tools? Noakes: Likewise, she always encourages educators to ask: How might tech support educators’ ability to differentiate learning in the classroom? Then, learning goals drive the decision. She is co-author of the book Digital Solidary in Education (2014).

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Tom Murray

APRIL 12, 2016

The notion of “effective professional learning” is something that has been discussed for decades. A comparison in the philosophies of today’s school districts yields results that falls across a continuum of who controls the learning. Learn alongside your staff members and model expectations for them. Nothing more.

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Tom Murray

AUGUST 16, 2017

After facilitating a large number of admin retreats, leading conference sessions, emceeing multiple Future Ready Institutes, and keynoting many conferences this summer, my heart keeps coming back to one thing to start this coming school year. He also points to a direct overlap to our work as educators.

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Tom Murray

MARCH 15, 2016

Over the past few years, as most school budgets have remained stagnant, spending in educational technology has continued to climb. As seen many times in education, district leaders find themselves buying the stuff, pushing things out to buildings, and hoping it’ll have a positive impact. Personalize Professional Learning.

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edWeb.net

JUNE 4, 2019

Using CoSN’s blueprint for smart IT decisions as a guideline, the three superintendents explained how to align priorities, and balance choice with cost and outcomes to creative sustainable programs. She was selected to participate in the Future Ready Superintendent Briefing with the U.S. About the Host.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

While educators and school district administrators have grown used to reviewing assessment results and other forms of student data, they may not yet be looking at newer and increasingly important metrics such as online engagement, trending use of apps, and the return on investments in software. Data Analysis and Interpretation.

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edWeb.net

MAY 19, 2021

It looks like COVID-19 has one in the education sphere. Despite myriad challenges schools faced during the pandemic, many will come out of it with richer approaches to teaching and learning. ESSER II has encouraged educational leaders to creatively and strategically design programs to support school communities over the long term.

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eSchool News

JUNE 8, 2017

As evidenced in various OECD reports on the topic, the problem isn’t the technology itself per se but the lack of high-quality pedagogy, which often stems from a lack of high-quality professional learning to support educators with effective implementation. Professional learning must help educators do what they already do—better.

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