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Leading Schools of the Future

A Principal's Reflections

Portions of this post are adapted from the Future Ready Schools website with permission. Digital leadership takes into account recent changes such as ubiquitous connectivity, open-source technology, mobile devices, and personalization. Digital Leadership and Future Ready Recently the U.S.

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Teachers Can Transform Education if We Reinvent Professional Learning

EdNews Daily

Train teachers for the future, not the past. More to the point: Stop the ‘guide on the side’ platitudes and establish and train for the skill set of a 21 st Century teacher. Link teachers to digital training resources. Next step: Train a corps of teacher-leaders to assist and lead. Not so with educators.

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Getting Students Career Ready

edWeb.net

District 214 adopted the flipped approach to support students’ career readiness across its six high schools. Its tagline is “Discover your future,” reflecting its vision of being future ready. It’s about increasing postsecondary readiness, persistence, and completion, regardless of a student’s direction.

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3 Techniques for Promoting Resilience in Adult Digital Literacy

Digital Promise

Blatantly audible complaints by employees (“We have ‘this new system…’”) made it clear staff were neither trained adequately nor on board with the new technology. But these behaviors are symptomatic of something more than a simple lack of software-specific training and “skills gaps.”. adults have some type of mobile device.

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4 Questions for 4 Edtech Thought Leaders

eSpark

Certified Google Educator, the Massachusetts Google Educator Group Leader, and Technology Integration Specialist/Mobile Learning Coach for Burlington Public Schools. Tom - The Future Ready effort is helping districts systemically plan BEFORE they purchase. Oversees the globally recognized BHS Help Desk. jlscheffer.

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Why a 21st Century Teacher Isn’t Just a “Guide on the Side”

EdNews Daily

The truth is that in the emerging era of project based learning, personalization, 21 st century skills training, commitment to social emotional growth, and attention to equity and social challenges, the complexities of teaching can’t be captured by a simple ‘You’re now a guide on the side’ mandate. For teachers, resistance will be futile.

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10 ways administrators should be collaborating with their librarians

eSchool News

Whether a principal, superintendent, head of technology, or head of curriculum, there is likely a gem of a resource among your staff who could push your Future Ready agenda forward. Here’s how many are doing it. Librarians are ninjas in digital citizenship.