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How to connect EVERY educator to awesome professional learning

Ditch That Textbook

For me, professional development has often meant sitting through a staff-wide meeting about topics with limited interest and little time to practice hands-on. That kind of professional learning stinks. Thankfully, we have TONS of options for fun, hands-on, relevant professional learning — on our own terms.

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Model What You Expect

A Principal's Reflections

It goes beyond just telling people what to do by instead showing them how to do it as a means to either support learning or change. In the classroom, modeling aids in making concepts clear where students learn by observing. Learning, in many cases, results from observation (Holland & Kobasigawa, 1980).

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Identifying the Best Supports for Personalization

A Principal's Reflections

While a one-size-fits-all approach served its purpose for some of us, it doesn’t meet the diverse needs of kids today. It also doesn’t provide teachers and administrators with valuable insight on how to best support learners no matter where they are in relation to standards and critical competencies.

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What lessons does special education hold for personalized learning?

The Hechinger Report

On a shelf in her Chicago classroom, third grader Arianna has a thick binder that details her achievements, strengths and goals as a student, along with some revealing information about her personality. Personalized learning has, in recent years, become one of the most talked-about trends in education.

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An Open Letter to Teachers About Online Classes

Ask a Tech Teacher

Done right, you don’t have to give up the collaboration, camaraderie, and new friends to get the passion of learning, the huzzah of amazing knowledge, and the high of improving yourself. Many students don’t learn well in a traditional school due to classmates, the environment, rules, time limitations, or a different reason.

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64 predictions about edtech trends in 2024

eSchool News

We asked edtech executives, stakeholders, and experts to share some of their thoughts and predictions about where they think edtech is headed in 2024. Another advantage of AI is the time it can save teachers in the creation of personalized learning experiences. This begs the question: What’s next for education? Today, over 2.9

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Thinking About Redefining Professional Development

The Web20Classroom

One idea that I’ve been thinking a lot about lately is Flipped Faculty meetings. I always heard there wasn’t enough time before school/after school or during the day to do professional development. So we had to look at how to reclaim some of that time. Check out this blog post to learn more.

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