Instructure is getting into the certified educator business. This week, during its virtual customer conference, CanvasCon Online, the learning management system company announced the Canvas Certified Educator program.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 10/14/20
COVID-19 is making new kinds of demands on educators to become proficient at meeting the needs of individual students, whether they're in the classroom or learning from home.
Digital Promise has developed a guide to help schools and districts develop their teacher coaching programs. The "Instructional Coaching Playbook" covers why coaches are needed and how to develop or improve a successful coaching program.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 08/03/20
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