Articles in Professional development
SMART recently phased out SMART Learning Space (SLS), our online professional development and training website. We recently moved those resources over to a new site run by CoursePark and made them directly accessible from the …
Canisius College is located in Buffalo, New York, and they wanted to do something different to build a community around the use of technology in their learning environments. Jodi Moore, an academic technology specialist, tells …
By Sandi Boga, Program Manager
Have you ever tried to access SMART’s award-winning courses and become so frustrated with the old SMART Learning Space (SLS) platform that you just gave up and left? Based on the …
SMART is located in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, where teachers spend a few days each February on professional development at the Calgary City Teachers’ Convention. This year the convention hosted two very well-known TED Talk presenters …
SMART Exemplary Educator John Mein from Kerrville ISD in Texas has blogged for EDCompass recently about TCEA and his classroom tips to engage middle schoolers. He also has a few PD tips to share to …
Rafranz Davis is a math strategist at Grand Prairie ISD in Texas. She’s a Twitter-savvy member of the SMART Exemplary Educator (SEE) community and occasional moderator of chats, including one she recently co-hosted with fellow …
Cherie Herring is a SMART Exemplary Educator who teaches at Hammond School in Columbia, South Carolina. Cherie writes and manages a really exceptional blog called Just a Little More, where she shares her ideas and …
It’s always really informative to see a regional conference through the eyes of a fellow educator. SMART Exemplary Educator John Mein from Kerrville ISD offered to guest blog for SMART about his experiences at Texas …
By John Mein
John is a SMART Exemplary Educator and SMART Certified Trainer who teaches seventh grade English at Hal Peterson Middle School in Kerrville, Texas. John is very creative in the ways he incorporates SMART …
The Flipped Learning Network™ is a non-profit organization that was founded in 2012 by Jonathan Bergmann and Aaron Sams, the pioneers of flipped learning and co-authors of Flip Your Classroom: Teach Every Student in Every …
By Susan Blakely
Personalized learning means different things to different educators. SMART Exemplary Educators recently shared their perspectives about the term with us. Here’s what Susan Blakely had to say.
Personalized learning for individual students is “utopia” …
SMART defines a SMART Exemplary Educator (SEE) as a “dedicated teacher, technology coordinator or administrator who leads the way in using SMART products to engage students and improve learning outcomes.” While this description certainly fits, …
