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A 5-Step Plan to Improve Professional Learning in Your School

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We must commit to creating meaningful, purposeful professional learning experiences for our educators. We must commit to creating meaningful, purposeful professional learning experiences for our educators. From there, you can construct a solid professional learning plan for your team.

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Exploring Coaching Trends in Classrooms

Digital Promise

During the first two years of the program, we found that teachers who participated in the DLP used technology more frequently and in more powerful ways with their students. including access to coaching, the perceived effectiveness of coaching, and the existing financial and professional support for coaches. 11 from 3-4 p.m.

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Tips and Strategies to Boost Student Engagement

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There's little doubt that these starts, stops, and shifts have taken a toll on students' motivation and engagement in school. As we regain some sense of normalcy, many teachers report that students are struggling to get engaged in learning. featured_content_3%%.

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New iCoachTEAM Partnership Sets out to Improve Equity in Middle School Math

Digital Promise

We found that teachers who received DLP instructional coaching, compared to their peers who didn’t, used technology more frequently and in more impactful ways with their students—which, according to teachers, resulted in increased student engagement and learning. This is especially true when it comes to mathematics.

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Hear from Real Teachers about the Benefits of Micro-credentials

Digital Promise

Across the country, educators are demanding opportunities to personalize their professional learning. Research suggests the traditional professional learning methods—typically one-size-fits-all and top-down—don’t meet the needs of today’s educators or their students.

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Prioritizing The Most Urgent Education Challenges

Digital Promise

Social-emotional learning (#2). Student engagement (#3). More and more schools across the country are thinking beyond academic initiatives, working to broaden the definition of success to ensure all students are healthy, safe, and engaged in their learning. Each circle represents a challenge.

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New Computational Thinking Resources for Powerful Learning

Digital Promise

Teachers around the nation are being called to integrate computational thinking into their classrooms to prepare all students to thrive in a computational world. To do this, teachers need meaningful professional learning experiences and resources to integrate computational thinking in equitable, authentic, and sustainable ways.

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