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Discovery Education Offers Educators New Resources Supporting Black History Month Observances 

eSchool News

The collection of dynamic, on-demand resources supports educators’ efforts to drive deeper student engagement by connecting classroom lessons to the real-world. Career profile videos show students a variety of STEM careers across software engineering, chemistry, and technology support.

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5 Technology Workflows Your School Needs

Vizor

Retrieved from Kelly Stephens Twitter Feed. PRO TIP: Make it easy for students and parents to get the technological support they need 24/7. Including technology in your curriculum involves the district, the students AND their parents. Start a private Facebook page where the community of parents can help each other.

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Communicating Through Change: How a CA District Is Supporting Families in the Year Ahead

Edsurge

For example, DC Public Schools hosts Twitter town halls that allow families to get answers to their at-home learning questions and hear important announcements from district leaders. Technology training for parents and caregivers can help those at home gain the knowledge they need to support learning at home.

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Role of Tech in Ed: Consideration #1

The Innovative Educator

He explains that young people have an advantage when asking adults for support and tells the story of himself picking up the phone at 12 years old and calling Bill Hewlett (of Hewlett Packard). At the time, his number was in the phone book. Stay tuned on The Innovative Educator blog for the additional considerations in future posts.

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This Teacher Started a Hands-On PD Lab That’s Sparking Change Across the District

Edsurge

The reality was that although technology had evolved rapidly since 2013, professional development offerings for computer science teachers—especially at the elementary level—hadn’t changed much. I became increasingly frustrated with the lack of technology support and PD opportunities in our district.

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Innovative Educators named Bammy Awards finalists!

The Innovative Educator

He also is always on a quest to support students in learning in ways aligned to their interests, strengths and talents as he wrote about in this great lesson that he implemented [link] For his colleagues at his school, Deven has led the development of a more technology-capable staff through one-to-one training of tech-phobic or reluctant teachers.

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Google Teacher Tribe Podcast | Episode 2 Karly Moura

Shake Up Learning

Episode 2 Show Notes: Karly Moura is a Teacher On Special Assignment (Instructional Coach & Educational Technology Support Teacher) at Sun Terrace Elementary School, MDUSD. Follow @GTeacherTribe on Twitter. Follow the Google Teacher Tribe Podcast on Facebook. gttribe #googleedu Click To Tweet. CLICK TO TWEET.

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