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. But how does the community know?

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Tom Murray

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Professional learning in many districts must undergo radical reform, from a model that’s outdated and ineffective to one that’s personal, empowering, and owned by the learner. How school leaders run faculty meetings and in-service time should be a direct reflection of the type of instruction they seek in the classroom.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2022

Located in south central North Carolina, Hoke County Schools is a trusted community partner ensuring an inclusive and supportive environment that provides authentic learning opportunities preparing future-ready students. Those resources are: The Discovery Education platform. .

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

Watch the Recording Listen to the Podcast Join the Community Leadership and Innovation is a free professional learning community that serves as an online forum for collaboration on leadership and innovation in schools to meet the needs of the next generation. Article by Diana St.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 27, 2019

Generously supported by Ted Dintersmith and in cooperation with the North Dakota Council of Educational Leaders , the goal was to kick off a three-year investment in leadership capacity-building across the state for future-ready learning, teaching, and schooling. We have 72 participants representing 14 school districts.

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TeacherCast

JULY 25, 2022

The coach says “let me show you my calendar … it's full of events, meetings, and other interesting things … and look … It's colorful! The members of the district's senior leadership team are then tasked with meeting those goals and improving the school district. What happens next is usually one of two things.

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edWeb.net

MAY 6, 2022

During the edWebinar, “ Future-Ready Emergent Bilingual Education: 3 Factors to Improve Teacher and Student Support ,” Kristie Shelley, Senior Director of Emergent Bilingual Curriculum at Lexia Learning, and Cynthia Peng, Manager of Educational Content for Lexia English Language Development, discussed ways to achieve that goal.

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TeacherCast

JULY 25, 2022

it's full of events, meetings, and other interesting things. The members of the district's senior leadership team are then tasked with meeting those goals and improving the school district. Additionally, many school districts have digital learning goals to improve the Future Readiness of their students.

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edWeb.net

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Rachel Jorgensen, Coordinator of Work-Based Learning for the Anoka-Hennepin School District (MN), points out that students are coming into our learning community with unique needs, and all of their actions and communication is to try to get those needs met. She is grateful to invest her career in helping students find theirs.

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Edsurge

MAY 31, 2017

And we’ve traveled meeting with thousands of school leaders, teachers and students, listening to their experiences, both good and poor. Key #5: Professional learning must be relevant, engaging, ongoing, and made personal. For decades, we’ve debated how to make teachers’ professional learning experiences more relevant.

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techlearning

MAY 16, 2018

(May 16, 2018) – Texas’ Richardson Independent School District (RISD) today announced it has selected Discovery Education , the leading provider of digital content and professional development for K-12 classrooms, to support the district’s new, three year “Future Ready: STEM for All” initiative.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 14, 2016

Mark Ray , Chief Digital Officer of Vancouver Public Schools , spoke of transforming the role of librarians in his district to support students in becoming “future ready.” Through the vision of the district, librarians are deeply integrated in the learning experiences of students.

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TeacherCast

OCTOBER 16, 2021

To establish Microsoft Teams as a Digital and Professional Learning platform. Establish school and district Professional Learning Communities focused on measuring and improving instructional practice using digital resources. To create and deploy a model for professional coaching and collaboration.

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edWeb.net

MAY 14, 2020

Aglio points out that school districts must implement the same collaborative process for the acquisition of educational programs and curricula no matter whether stakeholders are meeting in person in a school conference room or online in a Zoom or Google meeting room. The New August. Join the Community.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

“Don’t call it professional development—call it professional learning.” The first goal of effective models of teacher professional development is understanding who they are and what are their needs. This approach can enable administrators to differentiate to meet the needs of all their teachers.

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edWeb.net

JUNE 30, 2018

They also send a technical survey to the vendor, many times followed by a call or meeting to review more details of that resource. Zach was recently appointed to the advisory board for Future Ready Principals with the Alliance for Excellent Education. Mark has presented at ISTE, SXSWEdu, FETC, CUE, and AASL. Join the Community.

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techlearning

JUNE 20, 2018

- Award-Winning Digital Services and Professional Learning to Support the Development of Life-Long Learners- Silver Spring, Md. This unique combination of rich digital content and professional learning will drive HCS’s efforts to help all students become life-long learners.

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TeacherCast

OCTOBER 16, 2021

To establish Microsoft Teams as a Digital and Professional Learning platform Establish school and district Professional Learning Communities focused on measuring and improving instructional practice using digital resources. To create and deploy a model for professional coaching and collaboration.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 29, 2017

I was recently in a district-level administration meeting where we were planning for the upcoming school year. As is typical in our district, this meeting was relatively casual. . — Rosabeth Moss Kanter.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 20, 2015

League members are represented by their superintendent, who commits to: ● Attend biannual League meetings, which feature classroom visits, collaborative problem-solving, and relationship-building with peers and partners. Engage with entrepreneurs to advance product development and meet district needs. 25-27 in Pittsburgh.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

This past year presented numerous challenges for educators, leaving many of us scrambling to do our best to meet the rising needs with limited time and resources – which isn’t sustainable. This will necessitate a reevaluation of curricula, training methods, and the development of future-ready skills.

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edWeb.net

JULY 9, 2022

Success means sourcing and recruiting to meet the needs as well as having a diversity measure. CTO Tech Talks is a free professional learning community where technology leaders can gather together to share and explore best practices, challenges, and successes in advancing learning with technology.

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edWeb.net

AUGUST 23, 2019

One of the basic needs building principals strive to meet, and the one that presents the most challenge, is ensuring that students feel safe in the school environment. Dr. Rob is the author of several books including Reading, Technology, and Digital Literacy and the ISTE bestselling title Are You Future Ready.

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edWeb.net

JUNE 26, 2018

He has been actively involved and presented at numerous leadership organizations, including ACSA, AASA, CSBA, CALSA, Partnership for the 21st Century, TICAL on topics of Personnel, 21st Century Learning, eLearning Summit, Personalized Learning Summit, and Linked Learning Convening. sup_du_jour. Join the Community.

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The PL2C Blog

MAY 2, 2018

Without professional development, educators become stuck in a rut, not knowing what best practices are and how to implement change in their school. This network has given me best practices, protocols, a professional learning network, and has changed the culture of both schools in which I have worked.

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techlearning

OCTOBER 24, 2018

To reach this goal, the district utilized Federal funds to create the X-STREAM program, which helps students meet state and local standards in core academic subjects, particularly in reading, science, and math. million educators and over 50 million students, Discovery Education’s services are available in approximately half of U.S.

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NeverEndingSearch

JULY 5, 2017

Curation is a direct translation of collection building, critical evaluation, instructional partnership, sense making, meeting community needs, knowledge building and instruction. Facilitates Professional Learning. For professional development : Your school’s PD efforts don’t need to go poof.

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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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eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

This past year presented numerous challenges for educators, leaving many of us scrambling to do our best to meet the rising needs with limited time and resources – which isn’t sustainable. This will necessitate a reevaluation of curricula, training methods, and the development of future-ready skills.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Fortunately, districts appear to be meeting these challenges head-on, as evidenced by a recent panel discussion for administrators and tech directors in Dallas, hosted by the IT products vendor PCMG , called “Preparing the Next Generation of Personalized Learners in the Digital Age.” That takes time and money.

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NeverEndingSearch

JULY 18, 2017

There are some new Future Ready Frameworks in town as well. You likely already know about Future Ready Schools and the Future Ready Pledge. And, you are likely already very familiar with the Future Ready Librarians framework released last year. Making anytime, anywhere learning a reality.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Meaningful Feedback In Iowa, at Van Meter Consolidated School District, Future Ready Librarian spokesperson and librarian Shannon Miller explains their school library is the heart of their culture. So, we took advantage of the ability to run focus groups and customer advisory meetings remotely. I tell jokes at lunch.

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edWeb.net

JUNE 17, 2022

In addition, the district established regular principal development meetings, in which principals could learn from each other about how they were pivoting in response to their new circumstances. Strategic Staff Development. ENA delivers transformative technology solutions supported by exceptional customer care.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 3, 2017

So we did, through Future Ready Schools and my teams at the Alliance for Excellent Education , we partnered with Dr. Linda Darling Hammond , one of the top known researchers in the world when it comes to education and what works, and our team at Stanford University, to dive into the topic of what is it that actually works.

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Tom Murray

JANUARY 29, 2016

Classroom teachers often end up with a hodgepodge of devices and software leading to common frustrations over lost instructional time, web-resources that don’t move past low level skills which also utilize a one-size-fits-all approach, and minimal professional learning – a top deterrent to improved instruction.

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Tom Murray

AUGUST 16, 2017

” Tommy and Timmy were the first two students of mine that I would ever meet. 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.

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Tom Murray

MARCH 15, 2016

Remain focused on student learning and utilize the technology as the amazing accelerant that it can be. Personalize Professional Learning. High quality professional learning mirrors dynamic classroom instruction. Professional learning must be relevant, ongoing, engaging, hands-on, and meet the needs of a learner.

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