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Illuminating Teachers’ Bright Ideas

10/11/2021

Topics: Education leadership

As schools face mounting problems, some district leaders are using design thinking to crowd-source solutions and fail upward

Before COVID-19 put schools in lockdown, teachers at Gwinnett…

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Recommendations for Helping Students Catch Up After Disrupted Learning

09/08/2021

Topics: Education leadership

As students return to the classroom, addressing instructional time lost to COVID-19 may be one of educators’ greatest challenges this new school year. Although students have made a range of…

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A Silver Lining Playbook for Turning Disruption Into Innovation

07/06/2021

Topics: Education leadership

After more than a year of struggle and stress, many educators are hungry for a return to normal. But what are they really going back to?

Copious research shows that in education, what’s familiar and…

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How To Lead a School District in a Crisis

04/07/2021

Topics: coronavirus, Education leadership, Online learning, Technology planning & infrastructure

Remember when 1:1 devices were a luxury and video lectures felt subversive? For many school districts, it wasn’t that long ago.

Over the past few decades, education has been dipping its feet in the…

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All in! 4 leaders share how a districtwide vision led to transformation

06/17/2019

Topics: Education leadership, ISTE Standards for Education Leaders, Online learning

Too often, tech integration is driven by innovative teachers working alone in classrooms, tech directors and coordinators with too many teachers to adequately serve, or a single school that becomes the showcase…

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Moviemaking in the Classroom

Topics: Curriculum, Education leadership, professional learning

Lifting Student Voices Through Digital Storytelling

By Jessica Pack

ISBN: 9781564849281

October 2021

Length: 152 pages

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Passion drives Nemko to advocate for ed tech

Passion drives Nemko to advocate for ed tech

04/25/2017

Topics: Advocacy, Education leadership

There’s no great secret to being an effective advocate for technology in education, says Barbara Nemko, the longtime Napa County (California) Superintendent of Schools.

“You can’t be an advocate unless you’re passionate about it, too,” she said.

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Family tech nights can narrow the digital divide

Family tech nights can narrow the digital divide

10/17/2018

Topics: Education leadership, Parent engagement

When we talk about digital equity, the conversation often focuses on providing opportunities for all students to learn in an increasingly connected world. We talk about devices and home connectivity. We talk the importance of parental support. We talk about training all educators to  …

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Successful edtech initiatives have these traits in common

Successful edtech initiatives have these traits in common

09/21/2018

Topics: Education leadership, Technology infrastructure

 

Over the last 30 years, I’ve worked on national and international projects focusing on the integration of digital technologies in formal learning environments from the preschool to the university level. Many recollections come to mind when I consider the challenges educators face when…

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TED helps educators tell stories worth sharing

TED helps educators tell stories worth sharing

09/13/2018

Topics: Assistive and adaptive technologies, Education leadership

Earlier this year, I received an intriguing email. The subject line read: “ISTE/TED Invitation,” and my attention was immediately piqued. As I read on, I learned that as an ISTE PLN leader, I had been selected to pilot…

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