Social Media

Redefining Social Media: 5 Ways to Use Social Media in Early Childhood

Redefining Social Media: 5 Ways to Use Social Media in Early Childhood

The early childhood market is notoriously slow to adapt to technology changes, but a few simple strategies can help you leverage social media channels to gain insights from your customers, create deeper connections, and establish lasting credibility with this hard-to-reach market.

Empowering Digital Citizens: Embracing Social Media in Schools

Empowering Digital Citizens: Embracing Social Media in Schools

This edWeb.net webinar presented by the Leadership 3.0 community explored the power of social media for building a conversation and crowd-sourcing a school’s story in order to promote a positive school culture and amplify student voice. Jason Markey, Principal for East Leyden High School, shared how to empower the digital citizens in your school with hashtags, collaborative blogs, and more.

The Project-Based School: Transforming an Underperforming Campus

The Project-Based School: Transforming an Underperforming Campus

As a teacher, Todd Nesloney was active on Twitter and as a blogger. Based on his social media presence, which showcased his love of project-based learning, Navasota School District offered him a job as principal at an underperforming fourth- and fifth-grade campus, along with the rare opportunity to transform the school from the ground up.

Connecting Families: Rethinking Education about Parenting in a Digital Age

Connecting Families: Rethinking Education about Parenting in a Digital Age

From text messaging, to social media, to online gaming, Connecting Families encourages and supports rich and relevant community conversations about kids’ digital lives throughout the school year. Connecting Families resources allow you to bring these important conversations to your school, but they take the pressure off of you to be an expert. Common Sense Education has done the research, the prep work, and the field-testing, giving you the best tips and content.

All Hands on Deck: Tools for Connecting Educators, Parents, and Communities

All Hands on Deck: Tools for Connecting Educators, Parents, and Communities

It’s no longer an option for schools or stakeholders to use technology and web tools to stay connected with all that is happening on a day-to-day basis. Discover how to activate stakeholder engagement in the virtual world. See how social media sites like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest can help move the conversation forward.

Avoiding Student Brain Drain: 3 Powerful Ways to Inspire Student Learning Over the Summer

Avoiding Student Brain Drain: 3 Powerful Ways to Inspire Student Learning Over the Summer

Three proven programs for avoiding summer brain drain and strengthening home-school relationships were shared in this webinar. Learn more about High-Tech Educator Strategies: Using Social Media to Communicate with Families, High-Yield Student Learning Projects: Developing Student Experts on Chosen Topics, and High-Touch Community Strategy: Back to School Community Walk.