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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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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

The Alliance for Excellent Education (All4Ed) & Future Ready Schools (FRS). Connect: www.all4ed.org , @all4ed | www.futureready.org , @FutureReady. The Alliance also has run Digital Learning Day for the past five years. National Association of Elementary School Principals (NAESP). Connect: www.naesp.org , @NAESP.

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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

Learn more about this edWeb broadcast, A Roadmap to Employability: Integrating Higher-Order Skills Into Curricula and Assessment , sponsored by CAE. Since 2002, CAE has developed performance-based and custom assessments that authentically measure students’ essential academic and career skills.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 14, 2016

Speakers proposed rethinking education by setting an inclusive vision that puts teachers and students first, encouraging students to showcase their work, leveraging the power of technology to improve student outcomes, and investing in the potential of every student. Leveraging the power of technology to improve student outcomes.

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Edsurge

MAY 31, 2017

If we are going to spend billions of dollars each year infusing technology, we must be prepared to share evidence of an ROI that demonstrates improved student learning outcomes. Key #4: Learning spaces must become learner-centered. Key #5: Professional learning must be relevant, engaging, ongoing, and made personal.

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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. Technology and Professional Development. ” Jill Abbott Sr. Join the Community.

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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 1, 2024

In 2024, developing more meaningful school-home relationships and partnering with families to support better student outcomes will be imperative. Communications with student-level data tied to outcomes feel relevant and actionable to families. Courtney Groskin, Instructional Learning Coach, St.

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edWeb.net

JANUARY 27, 2018

He talked with Lisa Schmucki, founder and CEO of edWeb.net, about how he uses edWeb.net to provide personalized PD that gets his teachers really motivated and excite about their professional learning. Rob describes how successful it was the first time he asked his teachers to try using edWeb for PD. “We

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edWeb.net

JUNE 26, 2018

Over the past 20 years, Devin Vodicka’s vision for how to drive high-quality student outcomes enabled him to quickly ascend the roles of educator, school principal, district administrator, and superintendent. He has served on Future Ready Leaders Panel of Visionary Educators, and the NAF Leadership Fellow. About the Presenters.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

In 2024, developing more meaningful school-home relationships and partnering with families to support better student outcomes will be imperative. Communications with student-level data tied to outcomes feel relevant and actionable to families. Courtney Groskin, Instructional Learning Coach, St.

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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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edWeb.net

JULY 22, 2019

Howard and Noakes: Howard encouraged educators to ask for documented and validated positive learning outcomes with actual kids. 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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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. How will you make learning personal and authentic for your students?

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Tom Murray

MARCH 15, 2016

To support this comprehensive transformation, Samsung Education developed the “ Transform Learning with Digital Curriculum ” infographic. Begin with the Why and Focus on Learning Outcomes. What is it that your district wants teaching and learning to look like in your classrooms five years from now? Redesign the Space.

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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. Join the Community.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Previously, each school in the district had its own platforms, many of which “didn’t talk to each other,” and the district could not provide effective tech support and related professional learning for many of the end users. The post Using Data to Improve Student Outcomes and School District Management appeared first on edWeb.

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edWeb.net

MAY 19, 2021

Action 3: Future Proof Your School. What else must educational leaders do to get their schools and districts future ready? MacLean, Morris and Walker emphasized that everything they learned and applied will figure into their long-term planning. Join the Community. Leadership 3.0 Leadership 3.0

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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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