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How Education Leaders Can Build Capacity for Digital Teaching and Learning
03/17/2021
Topics: Advocacy and funding
As the rate of COVID-19 vaccinations accelerate, increasing numbers of students are returning…
Jorge Valenzuela Found His Purpose as a National Education Advocate
09/16/2022
Topics: Advocacy and funding
Working as an instructional specialist in Richmond, Virginia, Jorge Valenzuela knew his mission was to help other educators elevate their work. But it wasn’t until…
Act now: Ask Congress to fund online learning PD!
08/11/2020
Topics: Advocacy and funding
As states and districts continue preparing for the upcoming school year, national data reveal the critical need to support educators’ capacity to deliver effective and equitable online learning experiences. For…
How states can support edtech priorities
04/30/2020
Topics: Advocacy and funding, COVID-19
Professional learning that improves educator practice is supported by ongoing, job-embedded coaching. Therefore, to build educators’ capacities in technology-empowered pedagogy, state leaders can plan…
Take Action: Tips for implementing, advocating for ESSA funds
03/28/2020
Topics: Advocacy and funding, ESSA
In December 2015, the U.S. Congress passed the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), a sweeping update to the No Child Left Behind Act that profoundly shaped public education for nearly 14 years. ESSA includes a…
Interview: How Wyoming is reimagining edtech professional learning
02/27/2020
Topics: Advocacy and funding, ISTE Certification, professional learning
State leaders, including Wyoming’s State Superintendent of Public Instruction Jillian Balow, are learning that access to technology alone doesn’t guarantee improved pedagogy. Access must be matched by efforts…
ISTE Carefully Watching Congress as Education Dollars for Local Schools and Students Face Uncertain Futures
07/14/2017
Topics: Advocacy, Advocacy and funding, Course of Mind
WASHINGTON, DC - July 14, 2017 - The International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) is anxiously following Congress as it eyes a slight increase in funding for education technology while also looking to severely curtail investments…
Advocacy with a capital WHY
09/21/2018
Topics: Advocacy, Advocacy and funding
“People at work are thirsting for context, yearning to know that what they do contributes to the larger whole.”
I’m certain that when Daniel Pink wrote this, he wasn’t thinking specifically of advocacy. Yet this quote helps answer the question as to why one would become an advocate?…
Partner to amplify advocacy efforts at the highest levels
06/19/2018
Topics: Advocacy and funding
When efforts to streamline teacher licensing in Massachusetts recently took an unexpected turn, a cadre of organizations, led by ISTE affiliate MassCUE, united to support educators. This effort is an amazing example of how partnerships in the education community can have a real and lasting…
Use advocacy, storytelling to grow learning initiatives
06/19/2018
Topics: Advocacy, Advocacy and funding
Advocacy, in education and elsewhere, involves working individually and as a group to influence decisions within political, economic and social systems and institutions. But advocacy involves more than providing testimony to your local, state or federal elected officials to influence legislation…