Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2017

LearnLaunch Institute , the Massachusetts Personalized Learning Edtech Consortium (MAPLE) functions as a professional learning community for 32 district members that aim to implement personalized learning. Last week, MAPLE released its first report: a. Last week, MAPLE released its first report: a.

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eSchool News

APRIL 26, 2024

Teachers who complete the course will earn a certificate that can be presented to their district for professional development (PD) credit. Teachers will also learn how to input their specific lesson plans into generative AI tools to get ideas for grade-level appropriate exit activities.

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Course Training Google Professional Learning 98

edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

edWeb.net was founded 10 years ago, and in that time we’ve grown into an award-winning professional learning network that helps engaged and innovative educators share their best ideas and practices – anytime, anywhere – with educators around the country and the world.

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Professional Learning Learning Personalized Learning Tools 45

Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Following years of disrupted learning during the pandemic, the recently released Nation’s Report Card shows an overall drop in both reading and math scores, with math scores falling in nearly every state. Substantive insights for teachers, rather than just numerical reports, will require less time spent decoding data.

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EdTech Data Professional Learning Assessment 158

eSchool News

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Because the Nation’s Report Card data released in the spring revealed that roughly two-thirds of fourth- and eighth-grade students cannot read proficiently, the efficacy of reading instruction once again became national news. Parents are already invested in effective instruction and learning for their students.

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Learning Training Survey Professional Learning 99

edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

In the edWebinar “ Students Leverage Technology Tools and Makerspaces to Personalize Learning,” Grace Borst, Innovation Specialist at St. Albans City School, and several of her students explained how they’re using technology for assessment, service work, and more. Students upload their homework, projects, and even pictures.

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 21, 2017

I frequently hear about high numbers of students who are not engaged in their learning, but I hear less about teachers who are not engaged in their work. However, a Gallop Poll found that 57% of teachers report that they are “not engaged” at work, with an additional 13% reporting that they are “actively disengaged.”

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Personal Learning Network Professional Learning Report Training 420

NeverEndingSearch

AUGUST 12, 2018

A recent winner of the ISTE Seal of Alignment Report , Participate.com is a professional learning networker’s dream, packed with features offering local relevance as well as the potential for global connections. It’s definitely time for a revisit.

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Professional Learning Learning Edcamps Twitter 40

Edsurge

APRIL 10, 2024

Data-driven decisions are increasingly recognized as a critical component of K-12 education, enhancing personalized learning, improving assessment and feedback, optimizing resource allocation and fostering early intervention. We approach this with a combination of professional development and ongoing, job-embedded support.

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Outcomes Data Strategy Analysis 122

Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

As Director of Professional Learning Systems for Tennessee’s Department of Education, I have the privilege of being able to witness teachers get excited to learn a skill they not only need to learn, but want to learn, and in the way best suited for their unique learning style.

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Professional Learning Personalized Learning Policies System 218

Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2017

The Office of Educational Technology (OET), in partnership with the American Institutes for Research, developed a research-based synthesis that defines a set of 27 policies and practices within four focus areas: collaborative leadership, personalized student learning, personalized professional learning and robust infrastructure.

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Future Ready Report Policies Digital Learning 62

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Provide professional development opportunities to invest in your staff While the school district I lead in Florida has less than a 7 percent turnover year over year, a recent report by the RAND Corporation showed that teacher turnover rates across the nation grew to 10 percent in the 2021-22 school year.

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Resources Strategy Blended Learning Trends 111

Digital Promise

OCTOBER 10, 2018

teachers are) just learning how to get the technology into their classroom and how to incorporate it with their curriculum so that it's meaningful and embedded. Districts are using technology tools in powerful ways to enhance student learning and engagement. How can teachers embed career readiness into their curricula?

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Education Trends Report Resources 211

Digital Promise

AUGUST 21, 2018

They don’t need new learning goals that rely on a fancy new technology tool the coach or teacher wants to use. Digital Promise’s 2017 report, Exploring Coaching for Powerful Technology Use in Education , talks about what this can look like in classrooms. So what do instructional coaches need to do to support teachers in this work?

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Technology Digital Citizenship Learning Meeting 245

Edsurge

AUGUST 24, 2017

Prompted by district administrators’ desire to find ways to build student agency, engage student passion and personalize learning, we hoped blended learning would shake up the status quo and spark large scale change. Provide professional learning that allows participants to experience blended learning.

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Blended Learning Learning Training Assessment 131

The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 21, 2017

Barbara Bray talks about personalizing learning in the classroom. She teaches us strategies and helps us think about how to make our classrooms better. Score assessments, generate reports and transfer grades automatically. How to connect and go off script safely. I call it personal professional learning.

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How To Company Twitter Personalized Learning 231

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

When we reflect on how the pandemic disrupted education, we’ll think about the resiliency of our teachers, who were challenged like never before to connect with students in new ways to keep learning going in the face of nationwide school closures. In short, it’s time to more intentionally think about educators as Learning Engineers.

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Learning Data Survey Training 201

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 3, 2024

because teaching is no longer an isolated profession; it’s a dynamic and interconnected field requiring teachers to work collaboratively and build expansive professional and personal learning networks. Exploring the relationships between professional learning community, teacher and student characteristics.

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Study Outcomes Elementary Data 121

The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 3, 2021

How to Reach Students Who Have Experienced Trauma. So, we have to learn how to reach and teach students who have experienced trauma. Helping Students Overcome Trauma In this course, you will explore the different types of trauma and how they affect students’ behavior and academic performance.

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Course Assessment Online Assessments Strategy 486

The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2020

In fact, each chapter of my life has taught me the empathy and professional skills that I now use as a high school math educator. I learned how to treat people with compassion. Now schools are formulating plans to reopen, most likely with some combination of online and in-person learning.

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Learning Social Media Report System 125

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Children in early elementary school have had their most formative first few years of education disrupted by the pandemic, years when they learn basic math and reading skills and important social-emotional skills, like how to get along with peers and follow routines in a classroom. Credit: Jackie Mader/ The Hechinger Report.

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Elementary Report Groups Assessment 145

edWeb.net

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Sixteen states are developing Portrait of a Graduate programs, while six states are diving into personalized learning. The model involves initial assessment, reviewing reports, content-based instruction based on results, and a final reassessment. Notably, in Minnesota, 20 districts are embracing a competency-based approach.

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Secondary Assessment Outcomes Policies 79

The Principal of Change

APRIL 9, 2015

(This is the second of two parts on professional learning. Connected Learning. To be successful in helping people develop professional learning networks is to narrow the focus on the tools that are being shared with staff. You can read the first part here. We need to do less, better.

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Professional Learning Edcamps Learning Assessment 28

Edsurge

JUNE 15, 2020

Reflecting on these unprecedented times, it is easy to understand how schools might have been caught unprepared for the current pandemic. But as the work to retool continues, no community will accept its school moving forward without a plan to transition quickly between in-person learning and distance learning.

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Assessment Differentiated Instruction Data Comparison 160

EdTechSandyK

OCTOBER 12, 2009

The Personal Learning Network (PLN) that I''ve built on Twitter over the past couple of months has become an amazing resource for learning about what''s going on in the educational technology world. I almost titled this post How To Build a PLN on Twitter , but that would imply that there really is a specific "method".

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Personal Learning Network Twitter Personalized Learning EdTech 73

edWeb.net

JANUARY 22, 2021

All educators have now become managers and reporters of data, whether they are classroom teachers compiling information on individual students and sharing it with parents, or top district administrators evaluating teachers, principals, and all their students. Optimizing Data Reports. By Robert Low. WATCH THE EDLEADER PANEL RECORDING.

Data 54

Data Education Report Professional Learning 54

Graphite Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Disruptions like school openings and closures, shifts between remote, hybrid, and in-person learning, new policies and procedures, and the loss of shared traditions have made things difficult for everyone. As we regain some sense of normalcy, many teachers report that students are struggling to get engaged in learning.

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Student Engagement Strategy Social Media Personalized Learning 75

Edsurge

APRIL 17, 2017

One of the most difficult challenges I faced was supporting our 400 K-8 math teachers with substantive professional learning. To ensure equitable learning outcomes for all. also ensure equitable professional learning outcomes for all mathematics teachers. To ensure equitable learning outcomes for all.

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Professional Learning Data Outcomes Accessibility 93

User Generated Education

OCTOBER 7, 2017

Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, said in a statement, “Even high quality professional development must be directly relevant to the needs of teachers and genuinely improve teaching and learning.” Effective Teacher Professional Development ). We learn best when we think, feel and do.

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Education Elementary Professional Learning Guidelines 178

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2017

As more schools across the country experiment with d personalized learning approaches to better meet the needs, goals and interests of individual learners, many are overlooking an important piece: arts integration. The Academy is a magnet elementary school is located in a U.S. Related: Can testing save arts education?

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Personalized Learning Common Core Elementary Exercises 85

eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

From how to delve into the nuances of student learning and removing the heavy lift of teachers trying to figure out how to individualize instruction, to enabling someone like me to speak in seven languages so that I may express ideas or collaborate with others from around the world, AI holds endless potential.

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Trends EdTech Industry Data 143

Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) have long supported teachers in their career development, but with the help of technology, they’re now transforming education itself. We spoke with educators around the country and discovered seven ways that PLCs are transforming teaching and learning in schools.

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Data Secondary Education Assessment 114

techlearning

AUGUST 6, 2018

If we have heard it said once, we have heard it said 1,000 times: Professional Development is Broken For every time we have heard that said, we have also heard suggestions on how to fix it. Online professional development courses, allow for anytime, anywhere, self-paced, personalized learning. [

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Course Professional Learning Digital Badges System 44

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2021

The profiles are part of the school’s embrace of personalized learning, which centers on the belief that a teacher lecturing at the front of a classroom is a bad fit for today’s students. Personalized learning has, in recent years, become one of the most talked-about trends in education.

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Personalized Learning Education Learning Elementary 145

Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2018

Education is awash with efforts to personalize learning. But what does it mean for a company to personalize its support for the teachers who use its product? Teachers learned how to move their existing curriculum from Google Drive into collaborative Kiddom classes. She struggled to figure out what was going on.

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Company EdTech Common Core Assessment 122

Edsurge

OCTOBER 29, 2017

The non-profit collaborative helps educators apply research about learning and school design, and works with them to create environments in which 21st century learning can flourish. It provides a robust source of information on what’s actually working in the classroom, in the form of toolkits, articles and deep-dive research.

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Learning Professional Learning Assessment Report 60

EdNews Daily

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Vrain is also the only district Learning Counsel has found that is deeply involved in workflow aimed at personalized learning, with 100% digital coverage for core curriculum, 90% for electives, 80% for special needs and 100% for professional development. Most recently they unveiled a new mobile Innovation Lab.

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Survey Elementary Software System 130