Using Digital Equity Plans and Learning to Construct an Equitable Classroom for Youth with ACEs

As noted by Kelsie Anderson in her 2019 article for Digital Promise titled, How Access to Technology Can Create Equity in Schools, “when used effectively, technology can…remove barriers to learning materials, support students where they are across varied learning contexts and needs, and give educators more insight into the learning environments they’re creating”. Anderson goes […]

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Can Technology Help Foster Resilience Touch Points for Educators?

ISTE Coaching Standard 3 Collaborator reads, “Coaches establish productive relationships with educators in order to improve instructional practice and learning outcomes”. ISTE Coaching Standard 3.1 specifically reads: “Establish trusting and respectful coaching relationships that encourage educators to explore new instructional strategies”. In my previous blog I talked about “resilience”. I would like to continue building […]

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Can technology help build resilience strategies for students with adverse childhood experiences (ACEs)?

ISTE Coaching Standard 3 Collaborator reads, “Coaches establish productive relationships with educators in order to improve instructional practice and learning outcomes”. ISTE Coaching Standard 3.4 specifically reads: “Personalize support for educators by planning and modeling the effective use of technology to improve student learning”. The question I have posed in relation to this Standard is, […]

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How can educators leverage technology to improve individual and collective student learning goals?

The question is: is their a resource that can help educators leverage technology to improve individual and collective student learning goals; and also address how achievement of these learning goals are shared and demonstrated, digitally? I want to explore this question by framing it through ISTE Standard for Educators 6 which reads: 1) ISTE Standard […]

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Can Educators Understand Learning Variabilities WITH Their Students Toward Building Greater Learning Success?

The question is: is their a resource that can help educators understand the ways in which learning varies among their individual students, and include their students in the development of learner-driven activities and environments that will result in learning success? I want to explore this question by framing it within two of the ISTE Standards […]

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Can Technology Support the Development of Professional Networks for Teachers to Positively Impact Teacher Retention and Improve Student Learning?

There is a lot built into this question, and I want to explore this question by framing it within two of the ISTE Standards for Educators. Namely, in reference to ISTE Standard for Educators 1, how can educators continually improve their practice by learning from and with others and exploring proven and promising practices that […]

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Can Child Protection Professionals and Educators Better Collaborate Through Shared Learning Management Systems?

As the Chief of Staff for a national nonprofit organization dedicated to the prevention, intervention and treatment of child abuse – I understand the true value of community collaboration, especially as it relates to the protection of children. Over the past 10 years, I have worked with various child protection professionals, and educational experts, to […]

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Backing Into a Virtual Trauma Informed Curriculum

Overview This project will focus on developing the knowledge and skills of elementary school educators to build safe learning environments for children who have experienced trauma. This project will focus on determining what information, digital tools and digital resources are beneficial in constructing a trauma-informed classroom. Students, who consist of elementary school teachers, will critically […]

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Can Digital Tools Be Used to Improve the Work of Child Protection Professionals?

In my previous blog, I explored the possibilities for students and/or child protection professionals to design a simulation tool to identify and solve problems associated with the intervention, prevention and treatment of abuse. I want to expand upon that idea, but this time explore: Can digital tools be used to improve the work of child […]

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Can Simulations Aid Professionals in the Fight Against Child Abuse?

In my previous blog, I explored the idea of child simulations helping children who have experienced abuse communicate and share their testimony of their abuse. I want to expand upon that idea, but this time explore how child protection professionals can identify, create, or enhance a variety of interactive and innovative child protection simulations to […]

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