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Help Us Help You: How Schools Can Give Useful Feedback to Edtech Companies

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Over the years, I have taken what teachers have requested and sent a ton of feedback to companies. But I was curious: What do the companies do with that feedback? Edtech developers take feedback from schools seriously. You can’t ask us to build something and then not provide feedback and work with your teachers.”

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Harnessing generative AI to revolutionize educator growth

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As educators navigate the demands of an AI-rich teaching environment, they require innovative tools to adapt their instructional practices while maintaining a focus on equity, efficiency, and continuous growth. Professional development will be even more important as the rate of change accelerates due to more powerful emerging tools.

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Post-pandemic, a new era of teaching and learning

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Learning management systems and digital resources became indispensable for assigning work, tracking progress, and providing feedback. Educators developed new strategies to engage students remotely while balancing the demands of their own disrupted lives.

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Why combining assessments and LMS technology is essential

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While this may make some educators cringe, the reality is that test-enhanced learning, or testing as an aid to learning, has evidence of effectiveness dating back nearly 100 years ( Roediger III, McDaniel, & McDermott, 2006 ). Instead of creating simple bubble quizzes, educators can design short-answer quiz questions. Frequency .

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Learnings From the Front Lines on Redefining Leadership for the Age of AI

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This simple act of showing our work invited others to do the same, fostering a culture of continuous learning and a place where feedback wasnt just collected, but acted upon. How am I modeling adaptability and openness to feedback? We also shared the end-of-session survey results and our reflections with participants.

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3 things you didn’t know your classroom management software could do

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Whether you are eliciting student feedback, encouraging independence, or trying to reduce students’ cognitive and emotional loads, a high-quality classroom management system will have tools to help you make your classroom a safe space for experimentation and growth.

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Designing Empathy-Based Professional Development That Teachers Will Use

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If you’re interested in developing time-bound learning experiences like the Empathy Project to support educator development and adult learners, click here or contact us at communities@participate.com Don’t think that you have to be the expert. Consider who will facilitate a learning experience around SEL for your educators.

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