A Principal's Reflections
OCTOBER 17, 2021
At the individual level, intrinsic motivation drives educators to actively seek opportunities that support their diverse learning interests and needs. I have written in the past about the need to move from professional development (PD) to professional learning.
Digital Promise
MAY 13, 2022
In 2021, six educators representing community-based organizations, libraries, public schools, and the Digital Promise Maker Learning team embarked on a journey to increase opportunities for virtual and remote maker learning.
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A Principal's Reflections
NOVEMBER 8, 2020
For the better part of my educational career, I always referred to any type of learning to assist me as a teacher or administrator as professional development (PD). For the most part, this consisted of attending mandatory district “PD” days, professional learning communities (PLC)’s or approved off-site experiences such as conferences, workshops, or webinars. With a PLN, I was able to learn anytime, anywhere, from anyone I wanted for free.
Digital Promise
OCTOBER 6, 2020
Micro-credentials present a unique opportunity to link professional learning to practice. Through each competency-based credential, educators demonstrate application of their learning. Focus on integrating the new learning into instructional practice.
A Principal's Reflections
SEPTEMBER 29, 2019
No matter your position in education, you have gone through some form of professional development. Now, don’t get me wrong; some educators find value in the experiences I have outlined above and have gone on to change their respective practice for the better. The bottom line is that all educators yearn for quality professional learning as opposed to development that leads to sustained improvements in teaching, learning, and leadership.
eSchool News
JANUARY 13, 2023
I learned about Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling Suite (LETRS) from my mentor principal at the state department, which works with schools like Central Elementary to establish the specific benchmarks that each Alabama school must reach.
Digital Promise
MAY 20, 2020
With schools closed and social distancing orders in place due to COVID-19, micro-credentials —which are online and on-demand—allow educators to continue their professional learning without leaving their homes. Micro-credentials support timely topics like distance learning.
Education Elements
JANUARY 24, 2022
School district leaders face the enormous challenge of understanding and responding to how professional learning has been impacted by the global pandemic. Virtual Learning Instructional Coaching
Digital Promise
JUNE 15, 2020
As part of our robust micro-credential ecosystem, we proudly partner with organizations to provide opportunities for personalized professional learning. This stack includes: Conducting a Needs Assessment for Digital Learning. Developing a Virtual Desk for Digital Learning.
Digital Promise
JANUARY 13, 2021
The Edcamp Community supports educators to organize and participate in participant-driven professional learning designed by and for educators. The efforts of this amazing community helped educators stay connected and empowered as they navigated tough times together.
A Principal's Reflections
SEPTEMBER 2, 2018
Have you ever paid money to go and watch a professional sporting event, play, or musical? Let me focus the rest of my point on professional sports. These individuals either excelled at some level, whether professional or collegiate, or they are a master teacher when it comes to knowledge, ideas, and strategy as to how to take a group of individuals and help them succeed as a team. Quality professional learning takes time and goes well beyond one and done.
edWeb.net
OCTOBER 24, 2022
Why should professional learning be a part of every technology initiative? Because of equity, said the three leading superintendents on the edLeader Panel, “ Creating and Leading a Professional Team of Lifelong Learners.” Watch the Recording Listen to the Podcast.
Digital Promise
SEPTEMBER 30, 2015
Jennifer is the Director of Educator Micro-credentials. According to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, states and school systems spend $18 billion annually on professional development for educators in the United States, and almost all teachers participate in some form of professional development. Educators want and need this development for themselves and for their students. Are you interested in learning more about micro-credentials?
Digital Promise
SEPTEMBER 11, 2020
As part of our robust micro-credential ecosystem, we proudly partner with organizations to provide opportunities for on-demand, personalized professional learning. Clark County Education Association. 21st Century Learning Through Global Education.
Digital Promise
JULY 29, 2019
As part of our robust, on-demand micro-credential ecosystem, we are proud to partner with organizations and educators to develop rigorous, research-backed micro-credentials that support educator professional development and recognition of their skills. The Carey Institute for Global Good has added two micro-credentials to its Refugee Educator stack. The CAPS Network has built out a Profession-Based Learning stack to address rich experiential learning opportunities.
eSchool News
JANUARY 5, 2022
It’s one thing to attend a professional learning or instructional coaching session—but taking what you’ve learned and putting it into action is another. My time as a classroom educator helped me realize a passion for helping fellow teachers learn and grow.
Tom Murray
DECEMBER 26, 2013
Recently, I had the opportunity to record a Google Hangout with four connected educators on “Growing Your PLN.” Lyn Hilt (@l_hilt), Nick Provenzano (@thenerdyteacher), Lisa Dabbs (@teachingwthsoul) and Patrick Larkin (@patrickmlarkin) joined the conversation and shared a wealth of advice on how educators can develop a strong personal learning network. What is a personal learning network?
edWeb.net
OCTOBER 6, 2022
Each new school year brings a promise of growth in students and teachers, as well as in professional learning. Teachers and administrators across the country prepare for the new school year by designing professional learning that is meaningful and engaging for their staff.
Digital Promise
OCTOBER 22, 2019
BSD was motivated by the desire to evolve teaching and learning approaches that would offer increasingly relevant and interesting learning opportunities. These learning experiences would elicit deeper levels of engagement and improved outcomes for—and also beyond —academic achievement. The job description emphasized professional development as a key focus area. The post Innovating Professional Learning with Micro-credentials appeared first on Digital Promise.
Ditch That Textbook
DECEMBER 15, 2017
For me, professional development has often meant sitting through a staff-wide meeting about topics with limited interest and little time to practice hands-on. That kind of professional learning stinks. Thankfully, we have TONS of options for fun, hands-on, relevant professional learning — on our own terms. How can find this kind of professional learning — […].
Ed Tech from the Ground Up
JULY 30, 2018
An extensive list of websites, books, podcasts, Twitter chats and resources to help educators prep their computer science skills for the coming school year. The post 12 Computer Science Resources That Boost Summer Professional Learning appeared first on Market Brief. The Startup Blog PD professional learning Teachers
The Web20Classroom
MAY 19, 2019
Professional learning for educators comes in many flavors: Face-to-face, blended, online Content-driven, instructional practices, Edtech focused Faculty meeting, half-day, conference session If we were all to think long enough we could come up with a list of the best professional learning we've participated in and what made it great. For me it was learning where I connected to the presenter and the presentation immediately.
eSchool News
AUGUST 16, 2021
16, 2021) – Lexia® Learning, a Cambium Learning® Group company, announced today that all schools throughout Alabama can now boost literacy instruction via LETRS® (Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling) professional learning. About Lexia Learning.
Digital Promise
JULY 20, 2020
Why is it so important to have a strong research base to our web app, the Learner Variability Navigator (LVN), and its factors of learning? All of these factors interact to impact a child’s readiness to learn when they come into the classroom.
edWeb.net
APRIL 29, 2021
“We are not isolated in our common concerns regarding student learning in light of the COVID pandemic, and it has been a great resource to find solutions to common problems shared by fellow educators.”. The Professional Learning Survey was conducted the week of April 12th.
EdTech Magazine
MAY 25, 2018
5 Tips That Foster Collaborative Professional Learning. Leveraging new technology for professional learning requires some creative thinking — and it also takes money. A few years ago, a group at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte received a grant from the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction that paid for notebooks and software for creating a professional development program for elementary school teachers.
Digital Promise
OCTOBER 23, 2018
Imagine a world where every learner has the capacity and drive to learn for life. At the Institute for Personalized Learning , we focus on bringing this vision to life in our work with education leaders and practitioners. To make this shift, we need to design a system that develops “POWERful” adult learners as well, who are active participants in their learning experiences. They currently have a variety of micro-credential pathways that educators can choose from.
edWeb.net
FEBRUARY 17, 2022
edWeb.net is an award-winning professional learning network that helps engaged and innovative educators share their best ideas and practices — anytime, anywhere — with educators around the country and the world. edWeb is free for all educators and educational institutions.
Digital Promise
APRIL 16, 2020
In the last month, our teaching and learning environment has been upended. In the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, districts and educators have been tasked with shifting teaching and learning online, and many are seeking resources to support learning in this new environment.
EdNews Daily
FEBRUARY 21, 2020
The blue-collar aspect of education reinforces this meme: Teachers work the trenches; Administrators supervise; Superintendents are the top brass. Lack of professional opportunities to develop this complex skill set is leading to frustration and an exodus is building. By Thom Markham.
eSchool News
APRIL 9, 2021
Facilitating in-person professional learning is exhilarating. Schools closed and moved to remote learning, including the district where we work. While there was still a need for professional learning in the virtual space (perhaps even more so!),
edWeb.net
FEBRUARY 15, 2022
edWeb.net is a free professional learning network that provides educators with online professional learning communities and edWebinars. edWeb has grown to a global community of over 1 million educators from preK – higher ed.
A Principal's Reflections
DECEMBER 15, 2019
Thus, I basically just shared what my teachers and students were doing at New Milford High School (NJ) and the evidence that showed how our implementations of innovative ideas were improving student outcomes as well as teaching, learning, and leadership practices.
eSchool News
DECEMBER 16, 2021
Silver Spring, MD (Thursday, December 16, 2021) — As school systems nationwide begin to look towards Winter Break, Discovery Education and select social impact partners present curated professional learning resources at no cost to support educators’ continued professional learning.
Tom Murray
AUGUST 28, 2016
During my time as a public school employee, I’d occasionally hear about educational organizations that were working to support schools in some capacity. This is the second post in a short series meant to highlight the great work of many nonprofit organizations that are working diligently to support students’ learning on a daily basis. All of these organizations are shifting the needle and rocking professional learning nationwide. Organization: Learning Forward.
edWeb.net
JULY 28, 2022
If people are that particular about their coffee, imagine how they might feel about their professional learning, says Robin Knutelsky, Director of Curriculum, Instruction, Assessment, and Human Resources for Northern Highlands Regional High School in New Jersey. Decaf. Cream. Sugar.
Tom Murray
MARCH 27, 2015
As educators, our core business is learning. We fulfill a multitude of additional roles that are also extremely important, yet, at its essence, education is about learning and our schools and school districts must be learning-focused organizations. Of course, when we talk about learning as our core business, we (rightly) think, first and foremost, of student learning.
edWeb.net
NOVEMBER 5, 2021
In this edWebinar, the Georgia Department of Education (GaDOE) Social Studies team, made up of regional and district leaders, describe how their virtual learning communities on edWeb.net helped them support educators, and their students and parents, during a time of crisis.
edWeb.net
NOVEMBER 5, 2021
In this edWebinar, the Georgia Department of Education (GaDOE) Social Studies team, made up of regional and district leaders, describe how their virtual learning communities on edWeb.net helped them support educators, and their students and parents, during a time of crisis.
eSchool News
MARCH 31, 2020
IBM AI Education: mindSpark Learning and IBM partnered to create this free, interactive professional learning suite of online experiences to guide educators through AI’s foundational concepts and K-12 classroom connections.
edWeb.net
JUNE 8, 2021
As educators and industry partners look ahead to the 2020-21 school year, they’re examining the impact of the pandemic and the potential transformation of all aspects of K-12 education. Highlights from the Simba PreK-12 Professional Learning Market 2020 Report.
edWeb.net
DECEMBER 29, 2020
Despite decades of existing research, most professional development programs fail to adhere to established criteria for effectiveness. Moore says that before any rollout of sustainable and effective professional learning, there are four factors that school leaders must consider.
eSchool News
JUNE 24, 2020
Flinn Scientific is hosting a safe return to school series of webinars, designed to provide facts and information to enhance student learning and facilitate instruction in a safe format, regardless of the learning modality.
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