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The Power of Local and National Community Connections

Digital Promise

Including school districts, government, universities, the private sector and many more stakeholders, this network of networks is uniquely positioned to design, launch, iterate on, and disseminate breakthrough learning practices and tools. Within their local context, EdClusters drive powerful change within their communities.

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#AskExcelinEd: What does it look like when a state takes assessment literacy seriously?

ExcelinEd

In Michigan, a group of grassroots volunteers gathered to fix this. Using their own resources, the group created the Michigan Assessment Consortium and began working to solve the problem of assessment illiteracy. Michigan Takes Assessment Literacy Seriously. After five years, the consortium incorporated.

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Trade Shows: When to Go and What to Do When You Get There

edWeb.net

Your company might have a white paper on SEL, for instance, or a blog post on improving parent-teacher communications that would be relevant. The education division of SIIA, ETIN, unites the EdTech community to provide thought leadership, networking, professional learning, advocacy, policy support, and awards programs.

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How Schools Can Create Foundations For High Quality Teaching

MindShift

They wanted to find out what good teaching looks like, how teachers learn to do it and what supports they need to spread those ideas. The white paper puts the problem bluntly: “Plainly put, there is no one responsible for producing actionable, practical knowledge about teaching. SOLVING THESE PROBLEMS.

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16 Great NonProfits Working to Support EdTech in Schools

Tom Murray

The International Association for K-12 Online Learning, known as iNACOL, works to “catalyze the transformation of K-12 education policy and practice to advance powerful, personalized, learner-centered experiences through competency-based, blended and online learning.” Organization: Maker Ed. Technology Leadership. URL: www.cosn.org.

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Observation and self-reflection in the classroom

Kathy Schrock

In a study group or professional learning community, educators can dissect the lesson and methodologies used in the videos and come up with ideas for use in their own classroom when using Discovery Education Streaming or Techbook. These videos can be used in a number of ways to enhance classroom instruction. Register today !

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WHAT’S NEW: NEW TOOLS FOR SCHOOLS

techlearning

HOONUIT’S NEW COURSES ( www.hoonuit.com ) Hoonuit announces the launch of accredited professional learning courses. The courses will be provided through Pathways, a new enhancement to Hoonuit’s online professional development solution, which groups similar modules together to provide a well-rounded study of a topic.

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