Digital Promise

JANUARY 20, 2022

How can teachers develop a practice of creativity and stay inspired in their classrooms? During a recent webinar, HP Teaching Fellows Brent Christensen , Vickie Morgado , Teena Hine , and Amanda Brace shared tips for igniting creativity in their teaching and learning practice. Move from consumption to creation.

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Hapara

JUNE 7, 2023

EDT Where : Pennsylvania Convention Center, Terrace Ballroom Lobby, Table SOA 37 Session type : Participate and share: Poster Session focus : Amy Miller, Hāpara Engagement Manager, will explore how Hāpara Workspace empowers educators to improve their professional practice. Plus, you’ll hear from students, coaches and IT admins.

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Edsurge

MARCH 15, 2024

This fall, after a restless night overthinking an assignment for my upcoming class and drinking three cups of not-strong-enough coffee, I added the final touch on my latest assignment for students in my World History II class. Sure, the skills of writing may have been practiced, but so what? It was a maddening moment of clarity for me.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 23, 2021

When COVID closed the door on in-person schooling in spring 2020, one of the biggest concerns for school districts was how to address the needs of students who experience cognitive learning challenges and/or physical disabilities. From the conversations, the following big ideas emerged: Student agency is paramount.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 13, 2018

While in some cases, technology is used in powerful ways to support students in developing critical thinking and collaboration skills, and to develop a sense of agency, in other situations it is used in things like drill and practice exercises, test prep, and reading online content.

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Hapara

MAY 20, 2022

In order to prepare students to become successful future global citizens, they need to engage in deeper learning. This form of education helps teach students the critical collaboration and analytical skills they will need to succeed in the future workplace and society. Incorporate inquiry-based projects.

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Hapara

MARCH 1, 2022

We will explore themes from Supporting Child and Student Social, Emotional, Behavioral, and Mental Health Needs as well as the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) framework for applying evidence-based SEL strategies to your classroom. A learner asks for help building resilience.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 12, 2019

This blog post is the second in a series where participating districts share why they are committed to providing maker learning opportunities to their students. Beginning in 2007, the district’s financial situation and declining enrollment were impeding its ability to equitably serve the student population.

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Hapara

JULY 19, 2023

Since Google Docs saves progress on its own, and learners can access it online, it certainly works well for word processing. Collaborate One of the benefits of Google Docs for learners is that it increases their productivity because they can access their documents from any device. Learners simply highlight the text and add a comment.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 24, 2022

While innovation takes a unique form in every school, I’ve drawn upon my experience collaborating with innovative thinkers across the PreK-12 landscape to gather a few key practices that I believe will be critical this year. The definition likely includes something around meeting every student’s academic needs.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 16, 2020

From increased anxiety and depression related to unhealthy usage of social media , to our students’ decreased attention spans , it’s time to take a “less is more” approach. But doing so is imperative if we want to re-humanize learning experiences for our students. Tip 1: Choose apps that work across many different subjects and needs.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 28, 2022

This impact is consistent with the average student using the Amplify Science curriculum moving up 14 percentiles compared to their peers who used other materials. The results were similar across gender and racial groups, and for students with varying levels of math and literacy achievement.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2023

Here she is training math teachers on how to teach children to solve word problems at an elementary school in Brooklyn, New York. More than half the students added the numbers 96 and 25 together. Credit: Jill Barshay/The Hechinger Report How does a revolution start? Sometimes, it’s a simple question. Instead, most couldn’t solve it.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

What’s more, it strips students of their agency and autonomy and strips learning of curiosity and serendipity. It’s time that knowledgeable, sentient educators reclaim personalized learning as a humanized pedagogy—one that cultivates student agency and keeps equity and inclusion at the center. Here’s how we can start.

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Edthena

MAY 6, 2022

Teachers, and the instructional coaches who support them, frequently set goals aimed at improving teacher practice and student outcomes. PEERS goals (Powerful, Easy, Emotionally Compelling, Reachable, and Student-Focused), developed by Jim Knight, are a tool for creating and better understanding goals for meaningful outcomes.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Often, the most powerful learning happens when students explore different perspectives, step outside of their typical environments, and are exposed to new ways of doing and thinking. Similar to the League’s cohorts , innovation study tours focus on discussing challenges and sharing best practices and resources.

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edWeb.net

JANUARY 9, 2024

In the edLeader Panel “ Key Strategies for Recruiting and Retaining Educators of Color ,” two district leaders and two educational experts shared key strategies and helpful insights about recruiting and retaining a diverse range of educators and how this diversity impacts student learning and achievement.

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 17, 2017

The focus might have been on digital, and I was the initial catalyst that got the ball rolling, but it was the collective action of my teachers, students, and other administrators who embraced different and better while showing evidence of improvement that resulted in improved outcomes.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 25, 2021

Some colleges, meanwhile, have decided to go it alone and build their own systems. To avoid such blunders, some schools wisely invite faculty to participate in focus groups, not only to tease out objections, but to encourage them to contribute to the effort. You would never do that on campus,” Springer continued.

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Edsurge

MAY 28, 2020

It’s an opportunity for the future teachers who are enrolled at the college to apply what they learn in class in a practical setting, testing out lesson plans with real elementary students. But education students still need to work on lesson plans, and kids still need summer activities. Some kids have no internet.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 1, 2019

So how do teachers actually create meaningful work and allow students real agency in a 21st century classroom? They want their students to be critical thinkers, problem solvers,communicators, collaborators and globally fluent. The challenge is translating that into day-to-day practice.

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Edsurge

APRIL 6, 2020

I am an edtech consultant and student of experience design at the University of the Arts, London. Here’s some of the biggest challenges schools are facing and how they’re making it work despite the uncertainty. On our call, he looks concerned, but in control, sitting at his home work station, a bike leaning against the wall. “It

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Dangerously Irrelevant

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Unless a teacher is creating a many-week, interdisciplinary, group project for her students, it’s nearly impossible for her to address all of the items on the protocol in a short lesson or unit. Julie Graber and I often get asked if the 4 Shifts Protocol can be used as a comprehensive walkthrough or observation tool.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 29, 2018

The results from building a blog, a readership, and subsequently, a following, can lead to incredible opportunities, wider impact and transformation. In the digital age, using your voice has taken on a whole new meaning. For five years, we’ve highlighted some of the best and brightest blogs within K—12 education. by Ricky Ribeiro.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

In the late 1960s, Nobel Prize-winning economist Herbert Simon posed the following thought exercise: Imagine you are an alien from Mars visiting a college on Earth, and you spend a day observing how professors teach their students. Teaching at colleges is often done without any formal training. But at a university? “We

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Edsurge

JUNE 4, 2020

This is the first of a three-part series looking at how social-emotional learning strategies can support teachers of students with learning differences during the pandemic. Can my most vulnerable students tolerate distance learning? Can best practice be translated to this way of educating? Will we ever catch up for time lost?

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Shake Up Learning

OCTOBER 20, 2020

The post Blended Learning Best Practices (with Catlin Tucker) – SULS085 appeared first on Shake Up Learning. This week, I’m chatting about Blended Learning best practices with the blended learning guru, Dr. Catlin Tucker. Blended Learning Best Practices (with Catlin Tucker) – SULS085. Click To Tweet.

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techieMusings

JUNE 21, 2023

Early in my teaching career, I attended a conference where a presenter shared a statement that has stuck with me ever since: “If there’s no sharing, there’s no learning. Teaching is fundamentally a sharing activity.” ” –Darren Kuropatwa.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

In 2023, a new popular kid in town, better known as AI, dominated headlines and prompted debates around how students could abuse–and should use–the generative tool for learning. Moving away from the pandemic, educators still grapple with learning loss and academic disparities and inequities. What are the projections for edtech?

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MIND Research Institute

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

While nothing could compare to collaborating with a group of outstanding ST Math educators face-to-face, we ultimately opted for a virtual setting. How can we leverage ST Math to empower students to own their creativity, provide a more equitable learning environment, and prepare all of us to solve the world’s most challenging problems?

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Edsurge

APRIL 9, 2019

The 20 students in my class received a wide range of grades, causing a mixture of satisfaction and dismay. I would integrate repeated practice for the fraction skills into the rest of our content and I would set up a time to meet with students who had failed, but I knew it wouldn’t be enough. My heart sank.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 1, 2016

They represent principles and practices essential to meeting all students’ needs and to ensuring that students graduate future ready. Comprehensive approaches to differentiation, special education, and RTI are more necessary than ever if schools will reach the goal of high levels of learning for all students.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

She brought to the role practical expertise, having spent more than two decades working as an early childhood educator. To address the problem, more than a dozen researchers across the country are collaborating to develop resources to prepare future policymakers for success designing, building and evaluating programs for young kids.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 21, 2019

Can it be honed through practice and repetition, in a similar fashion as, say, practicing shooting free throws? Other soft skills include critical thinking, collaboration, and negotiation. Creativity is best seen as a practice, or perhaps a perspective—a way of looking, thinking, living, seeing and being. Why—or why not?

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

In a study of 140,000 classrooms in K-12 schools across 39 states, more than half showed no evidence of students using technology to gather, evaluate, or use information for learning. And in nearly two-thirds of the classrooms, students didn’t appear to use technology to solve problems or work collaboratively.

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MIND Research Institute

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

As the new school year kicks off, you might be wondering how to help your students get excited about participating in math lessons. Mathematical discourse uses written and spoken communication to help students describe their thinking when solving a problem. Why Is Mathematical Discourse Important? Establish a Safe Academic Environment.

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Edsurge

MAY 31, 2017

For the past 20 years, we have worked as teachers, administrators and advisors in public schools around the country. And we’ve traveled meeting with thousands of school leaders, teachers and students, listening to their experiences, both good and poor. School improvement efforts rely heavily on high-quality, collaborative leadership.

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