Dallas Independent School District will be delivering computer science professional development to teachers in all of its elementary schools, thanks to an arrangement with Amazon.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 06/29/20
Google has kicked off a new Google for Education Certified Coach Program, for instructional coaches, and specifically the individuals who work with educators to help them integrate technology appropriately into their instruction.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 06/29/20
The programs align with district salary schedules and cost less than traditional graduate degrees.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 05/14/20
The Virtual Teaching Academy, an initiative by the University of Phoenix and Blackboard, is intended to help educators develop a blueprint for teaching in the next school year.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 05/14/20
SETDA, the State Educational Technology Directors Association, has produced the "Coalition for eLearning," to help state leaders and others make decisions about how to respond to school closures in the face of COVID-19.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 03/16/20
The series touches on the basics of how federal and state privacy laws affect teachers and staff, how to decrease the most common privacy risks and how to improve the transparency of what schools do with student data.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 02/26/20
Should lead teachers in early childhood education have their own credential? A new feasibility study is underway to research the practicality of that idea.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 02/12/20
For the first time, a majority of elementary teacher education programs have adopted the tenets of reading science in their curriculum.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 02/11/20
In a national online survey of 1,246 coaches, administrators and teachers, nearly nine in 10 said they found value in coaching as a form of professional development. More than half (52 percent) said it was "highly" or "very" valuable to them. And exactly half reported that coaching had a positive impact on their practice to a "large" or "great" extent.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 02/10/20
Digital Promise has just placed its seal of approval on eight microcredentials developed by other organizations, adding to the catalog of 450-plus microcredentials it already supports.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 01/30/20