The Top Three ways Students Successfully Take Ownership Of Their Learning Path

When students choose what they study based on their preferences, and even personal experience, they do better in school.

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The future Is Online Learning: Crucial For Teacher And Student Growth

Covid-19 has been overwhelming and keeping up with alternative learning strategies that were not fully developed continues to be a challenge. We are starting to see an opportunity gap within grade levels and many schools are struggling to develop effective online learning courses.

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Misconceptions About The Value Added Model's Reliability - Is It Fair?

Principals and administrators need to fully understand the Framework because if they cannot conduct proficient ratings, the evaluation system for teachers is at risk.

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Some Acquired The Value-Added Model (VAM) and many still don't trust it!

The idea of evaluating teachers in the next 10 years seems like a stretch due to the teacher shortage and the Covid19 pandemic but we still have these systems in place, so how are you adapting?

Districts Decide A Design For A Teacher Evaluation System – The Old Way Failed

The older evaluation systems failed at both levels leaving teachers with little or no support on how to improve and did nothing to identify struggling/low-performing teachers. So, what have we done to change it?

How Can Learning Connect Students With An Authentic Audience For Their Work?

We would like for every student to take a leadership role in their learning. So, how are the students in your district teaching while learning from others?

Compelling Reasons Why You Need Inquiry Learning: Especially in an Online Environment

Many times we are so worried about getting through the curriculum that we often miss ways to ignite student joy and excitement. So, why not try the Inquiry Cycle online?

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Switch Up Your Professional Learning Opportunities: What do you have to lose

If you are genuinely interested in finding innovative ideas go outside of your comfort zone. Perhaps looking outside of the most popular methods for professional development will give you an edge to improve your content knowledge that can eventually help you in the classroom.

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Why We Love Including Genius Hour In Our School Day And You Should, Too!

The goal of Genius Hour is to create a passion and love for learning. Are you willing to devote an hour a week, allowing students to learn about whatever they want to explore?

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The Biggest Trends In Self-Critique We've Seen This Year: A Teachers Growth Tool

Teachers aren’t restricted to simply being video consumers either, now more than ever creating your own videos just gets easier and easier. How are you perfecting your craft and getting better?

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How Do Your Students Learn Best? Five Tips For An Online Environment: Things I Wish I'd Known Earlier

Online learning presents new challenges and opportunities. We must think about unique ways to involve every student and using visuals, 1:1 meetings, and close captioning is only the beginning!

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Are You Meeting The Needs Of Your School? Quick-Checks And Surveys Can Help

There are two things schools should consider, first what are the stakeholder’s thoughts, opinions, and possible usage of the tool, and second, what does the back-end data suggest.

The Important Of The Position And Its Effect On A School: Are You An Effective Principal?

Principals tend to spend an average of 12.6 percent of their time on instruction-related activities which is worrisome because classroom walkthroughs only account for 5.4 percent of a principal’s time. (NCES)

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If We Are Making Major Changes... It May Be Time To Redesign Our Teacher’s Evaluation System

To be honest, teachers must be equipped with effective instructional feedback in a timely manner to perform according to current expectations. If teachers are not performing well; they should be immediately trained in a specific area of need.

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The Time is Now! Embrace Video Learning: Every Teacher Gets Individualized Instruction

School Principals and Instructional leaders should consider promoting opportunities to join or start a video club or teacher rounds process. These opportunities can contribute to a “culture of continuous improvement” in which teachers grow through formative, low-stakes feedback.

Please Do Not Let Technology Take Over; Let's Find The Right Program That Fits Individual School Needs

Teachers already have proven time and time again that they are the innovative ones that create assignments that are practical and always consider the end goal but using technology may require some assistance.

What Are Some Challenges and Opportunities Around Teacher Growth, Equity, and The Human Connection in 2021?

We at Ei360; know that teachers are surviving while learning a new set of skills, K-12 schools are having new conversations around race, equity, and inclusion, and Social connection has become a challenge for everyone in the world.

Let's Develop An 8-9th Grade Pipeline; Stop Students From Dropping Out!

We need to do more to create a transitional bridge to ensure student success. We must create a positive experience for middle schools making the transition to high school.

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How Are Your Students Doing In This Virtual World? IDEA

According to the U.S. Department of Education, seven million children ages 3 to 21, or 14 percent of all public-school students, receive such special education services. So how are we serving students now?

Enhancing the Student Learning Experience – Where to Find Balance? High Tech vs. Low Tech

Even if we had the most top-of-the-line, innovative devices and software in our classrooms, student learning all depends on its quality of use. Technology is here to stay but we must be effective with our usage.