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Future of Learning
Harmonizing with Microcredentials: 7 Steps to Reimagining Your School’s Professional Learning
[…] 100,000 staff, students, parents, and collaborators spread across Texas. We’ve heard the voices representing these roles and have seen how the program has been well-received by the teachers participating and even the students on the receiving end of their action research projects. In short, the commitment to building these pathways and offering incentives to […]
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New Pathways
How Teacher Beliefs Transform Student Outcomes: The Impact of Collective Educator Agency
By: Dr. Dennis Johnston Belief before behavior. This phrase has the power to transform classrooms, schools — and lives. The importance of teachers’ beliefs has been demonstrated over many years of research. This work builds on the scholarship of psychologist Albert Bandura, who demonstrated that teams that believed in their potential to create change […]
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Difference Making
Post-Pandemic Education: Public-Private Partnerships Are Critical in Developing Countries
[…] than 80 public education instructors in Ghana participated in virtual training sessions that featured Sesame Street Muppets Zobi and Kami, along with Ghanaian actress Matilda Asante playing their teacher Ms. Efia. The sessions, designed to help teachers make learning interactive and enjoyable for children, originated at Sesame Workshop. They are part of a program, called […]
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Early Learning
10 Steps to Develop Great Learners: I Am a Parent Not a Teacher
[…] The following is an excerpt from 10 Steps to Develop Great Learners. Schooling was made compulsory in the 1800s based on a simple premise – experts ( teachers) are more able to educate children in school-related topics that most parents can. And this has proved to be the case for 150 or so years […]
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EdTech
Tech Can’t Teach but it Can Help with Feedback
[…] and parents felt abandoned by the education system. The transition to distance learning was abrupt; schools did not have any time to prepare; and both students and teachers were forced onto a variety of unfamiliar tech platforms that often led to frustration before education. It showed how important fine-tuned routines and clear expectations are […]
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Leadership
Meet the Culture Hackers: Microcredentials Aren’t Just for Students
[…] Public Schools (Harmony) received a Race to the Top grant in 2012, a lot of expectations changed across the system. As student-centered models for instruction took hold, teachers demanded higher quality professional learning experiences and requested more academic leadership from their administration including more collaboration with their colleagues. The competency-based approach to professional learning […]
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Equity & Access
What is Vertical Coherence and Why Does it Matter for Equity?
[…] which is logically-structured, builds on previous learning, and facilitates student mastery of standards in every grade. Vertical coherence is a challenge in the best of times when teachers work physically side by side in buildings—talking during breaks, sharing plans, and co-creating lessons in person. But the COVID-19 pandemic has forced many teachers to work […]
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Equity & Access
Shifting Demographics: How School Districts are Diversifying their Workforce to Serve All Students
[…] highest level of academic and wellbeing support. District leaders are recognizing this moment as an opportunity rather than a divide, as a significant percentage of the current teacher demographic retires or leaves the profession, a clear and present opportunity is in expanding the current pipeline and workforce models to attract the teacher talent of […]
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Equity & Access
Restorative Practices at Building 21 Philadelphia
[…] explains. “It’s a huge commitment, and there’s a lot you’re going to have to go through together.” B21 started by providing professional development in restorative practices for teachers and administrators during its Summer Institute (a two-day, off-campus retreat), as part of faculty meetings prior to the beginning of school, and then through regular professional […]
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Leadership
Harmony’s Commitment to Microcredentials: A Close Look at their Professional Learning Experience
[…] and contextualized to their practice can happen in our schools, however. It takes a commitment to establish a system replete with natural opportunities to invest in a teacher’s career advancement and Harmony Public Schools has made that commitment. As Harmony’s Robert Thornton said in his recent post, starting a microcredential track is often born […]
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