Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 22, 2020

In this episode of The Balance , I talk with Lisa Highfill , a mother, educator, instructional coach, and co-author of The HyperDoc Handbook. She was a classroom teacher for over twenty years and is currently a technology integration coach in the Pleasanton Unified School District.

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 4, 2018

The 6 Fundamentals of Technology Coaching. Schools often launch new technology without a plan for supporting and coaching teachers through the process of using the devices and software in their classrooms. Supporting teachers is key to launching and continuing the marriage of educational technology and curriculum.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 8, 2024

He took that proclivity to the next level a few years ago, when he accepted a position as a K-12 technology coach in a small school district in western Michigan. What brought you to your role as a technology coach? I’d tell them I am a technology coach, and most people are like, ‘What is that?’

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 11, 2023

This includes the use of AI-powered teacher coaching via the AI Coach by Edthena platform. With the platform, teachers like Schlagel engage in personalized coaching cycles to further their development. This was my first real introduction to video coaching. How does the AI coaching process work?

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Edsurge

APRIL 13, 2018

Early on, he tried to introduce more technology, but the sight of so many of his students clicking through their school day wasn’t the instruction he had initially envisioned. So he reached out to me, his digital learning coach, to give him a better idea of how implementation might happen in a more intentional and sustainable way.

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Edsurge

JULY 12, 2019

But if policy leaders and practitioners don’t answer some hard questions in a coherent fashion across the system of teacher development, pursuing this model could just be about throwing good money after bad.” The paper’s authors provide a series of questions designed for both educators and policymakers to consider.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 30, 2017

We also heard that learning guardians of all types—coaches, teachers, tutors, and parents—need more actionable insights about how children learn. Artificial intelligence is not going to be education’s “silver bullet” any more than radio, TV, the internet or the iPad have been. To innovate is to question; to question is to learn.

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Edsurge

MARCH 20, 2018

“Interactive curriculum is the next wave” of opportunities in the education market, says Tim Brady, a partner at Y Combinator, in an interview with EdSurge. Brady has now overseen 11 cohorts of education technology startups over the past seven years. Students can learn up to 20 new words per day.

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eSchool News

APRIL 16, 2019

Yet even with these technologies flooding into schools and classrooms, computers won’t be replacing teachers any time soon, and that’s why now, more than ever, teachers should be given the critical support they’re asking for in the classroom. To illustrate this point, consider these three things educational technology can’t do.

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Edsurge

JUNE 28, 2017

The fitness coach can’t exercise for you. A fitness coach is a fitness coach because he or she likes to exercise, and that’s why they’re all buff, right? This fitness coach knows about equipment, knows about your body but mostly they get paid because they’re motivators. Technology and the world changed.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 3, 2023

Stamford, for instance, has created two types of seminars for the teachers in the Allegheny school districts he services — a general introduction, and a subject-specific one, where he brings together educators from the same discipline to share activities they use AI tools for.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 2, 2023

This begs the question: What’s next for education? Moving beyond the tradition of looking for employees at university graduation days may provide a glimpse into how we can simplify job transfers between private industry and public education and provide more opportunities for non-traditional paths into education careers.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 24, 2018

There is a lot of talk about how the role of the educator morphs to facilitator to meet the needs of students when implementing personalized learning—but it’s rare to see pointers for how the role of technology coordinators, integrators and coaches should shift to meet the needs of teachers during this transition.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

To support their professional growth, teachers will also have continued access to the AI Coach platform , which enables them to watch and reflect on videos of their classroom instruction, set professional goals, and receive personalized observation tips, coaching, and resources from a virtual, computerized AI coach.

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Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 22, 2020

In this episode of The Balance , I talk with Lisa Highfill , a mother, educator, instructional coach, and co-author of The HyperDoc Handbook. She was a classroom teacher for over twenty years and is currently a technology integration coach in the Pleasanton Unified School District.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 5, 2024

Educational technology adoption has grown significantly in the past decade, and it’s clear that K-12 schools are now comfortable with and embrace the new technology norms. Susan Uram Director of Educational Technology at Rockford Public Schools But effectively evaluating edtech products is no small feat.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Department of Education’s Office of Educational Technology (Office of Edtech, for short) issued a Request for Proposal for a better way to help schools evaluate edtech tools before making a purchase and. “[We But you want to step back and ask, ‘Wait, is this the right solution?’.

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Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2020

We are just getting started with voice technology in education. From simple commands that retrieve stored information to a future where voice-activated AI coaches help us set and reach educational goals across a lifetime, the potential for growth is undeniable. With voice and education, there's something there.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 15, 2020

As a professor at Harvard University’s Extension School—teaching the Neuroscience of Learning: An Introduction to Mind, Brain, Health, and Education—I knew Tokuhama-Espinosa would have insights into introducing MBE research to individuals with a broad range of experience and expertise. But we took it one step at a time.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

All too often, they would wind up needing to ask their instructor a question about the assignment but had no time to receive an answer before the deadline passed. In my academic coaching work with students whose grades are slipping, it’s not unusual for me to hear a student describe working on their schoolwork while at their jobs.

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Edsurge

MARCH 18, 2020

Users receive access to study groups and a question bank of tens of thousands of questions. Name: Pantheon HQ: San Francisco Founded: 2019 Besting other students in quiz bowl-style questions could land students spots at colleges and companies. Parents then schedule a time for the 45-minute video call with the coach.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Create true coaching cycles that allow them to bring a challenge, and get support in designing a strategy to overcome it. At BetterLesson, we practice the Try, Measure, Learn framework, which empowers teachers to identify a new strategy to try, test it out, and measure its impact against a goal set with a coach.

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Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2018

This is perhaps the greatest misconception about my goals as a teacher coach and, after speaking with colleagues in similar roles at schools around the country, I know I’m not the only one who wants to debunk this assumption. Improving teaching and learning practices with technology is not about replacing traditional teaching.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

Math Task: Questioning and Journaling. Questioning strategies can be done every day, and can be opened with a question that has varied, interesting, and accessible answers. Khalsa noted that the high exit can be within your questioning strategy, but he also likes to use journaling as an exit. About the Presenter.

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Edsurge

APRIL 27, 2020

“It’s really hard to have a routine with changing expectations week by week,” said Angela Estrella, an instructional coach at the Stanford University Graduate School of Education. These questions were in the spotlight during the latest installment in our EdSurge-ISTE webinar series. And what does “reasonable” even mean?

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Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2023

He has ChatGPT on his phone and his iPad, and our 45-minute conversation is peppered with references to Coursera’s newest personal learning assistant, “Coach.” Coach is going to be both reactive and proactive for learners. With a human being, I can just screenshot my question,” he says. It’s too much to type into a chatbot.

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Edsurge

JULY 7, 2021

In addition to this research, BTS Spark, the global not-for-profit education arm of BTS where we work, reviewed its coaching data of over 1,000 school leaders who had been coached during 2020 in the peak of the pandemic. They are nimble, adjustable and ready to move.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

As an instructional coach, the most important role I have is as a listener. In my role as listener and coach I’ve heard what teachers need. Sometimes we had an agenda and sometimes it was a virtual open office for teachers to show up and ask questions. We must make schools human again. So how do we do that?

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

For both questions, as it turns out, it depends on who you ask. Joseph South, chief learning officer for the International Society for Technology in Education Striking a Balance So how should districts weave teachers into the edtech process? Technology doesn't replace the teacher.”

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2016

education technology agenda. Much work remains to be done to realize the full potential of education technology. Mathematica’s Rapid Cycle Evaluation (RCE) Coach fills the researchers’ needs by helping schools execute low-cost evaluations and make evidence-based decisions. What do you say?

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

I had questions and I wanted to know more. As I learned more about the attributes of the youngest generation, I began to think about the implications for educators. I’ve spent two decades as a literacy specialist coaching teachers and providing professional development and I’ve seen a lot of transition in the field.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2024

All around my room are reminders of my identity as a 6’2, 280-pound Black and Puerto Rican man, husband, father, math teacher and basketball coach. I questioned my place inside the school, wondering what role I was really playing in students' lives. Do my titles of husband, father, teacher or coach even matter? Am I invisible?

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Edsurge

MAY 1, 2020

Treat the transition to distance learning as if it’s the beginning of the school year Drew Williams, a technology coach and seventh grade teacher at Lone Star Middle School, suggests that the transition to distance learning is similar to the first few weeks of school.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 24, 2017

Provide ongoing feedback from those who understand blended learning AND instructional coaching. When provided with an instructional coach who provided ongoing observations with feedback and targeted coaching, the implementation was quicker and more effective. Invest in training coaches.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 22, 2019

That’s what Alabama Leaders in Educational Technology is all about. . Nearly all of these districts count on ALET as a key resource for professional development and education for IT staff, instructional technology coaches and network administrators, among others. We see many questions about E-rate.

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Edsurge

APRIL 6, 2020

One-on-one coaching will continue over the phone, he explains, as we are still waiting for his mentee to call. These are just some of the questions schools are still grappling with. As some states cancel standardized tests, more schools may adopt a coaching versus assessment-based teaching approach.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

And how do educators share best practices across the region? In 2013, Fulton set out to answer those questions by launching their Vanguard Team , a group of 25 passionate educators who were on the forefront of technology integration and innovation. When we get kids thinking creatively, it unleashes a joy of learning.

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