In this webinar, FETC Chair Jennifer Womble is joined by Jeni Long and Sallee Clark, who are both authors, consultants and Innovation Leaders in Castleberry ISD, where they share some of the best edtech tools that empower both students and teachers in achieving equitable learning.
"We don't negotiate with terrorists," Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent Alberto Carvalho told audience members at the first-ever cybersecurity summit hosted by the White House on Tuesday.
Artificial intelligence and teacher retention: These are just a few of the issues experts anticipate education leaders will have to face this year. But we're here to help you get a head start.
The AI chatbot will be responsible for telling parents about their child's grades, attendance and test scores, Superintendent Alberto Carvalho announced last week.
"We don't talk about the risk of heat until it hits us," Shannon McCann, a special education teacher in Federal Way, WA, told The Seattle Times. "And it gets harder in a high-poverty community when people don't have a way to escape heat even after school."
There are at least six "chilling effects" students face as they utilize their devices for school work, according to parents featured in this new report. For instance, students report perceive a lack of trust and privacy in their school. Here's what administrators need to know.
"The current environment is very tumultuous for educators, particularly superintendents," said Sharon Contreras, former superintendent at Guilford County Schools. "It is tumultuous and stressful. I think the stress sometimes impedes innovation, and steals the joy that many once had in the profession."
"They're looking for quantity and not quality," Houston Federation of Teachers President Jackie Anderson told KHOU regarding Houston ISD's suggestion to hire uncertified teachers to fill vacancies.
"The digital revolution holds immeasurable potential, but, just as warnings have been voiced for how it should be regulated in society, similar attention must be paid to the way it is used in education," UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay said in a statement.
"We must drastically scale up our cyber skills to deliver this future, keep America secure, and ignite the next generation of American innovation," reads a first-of-its-kind government plan released on Monday that aims to meet the growing demand for cybersecurity professionals.
