"Understand the value of creativity in learning and how to enable it in the classroom by leveraging the full potential of technology."

Provides principals and school communities with a best practice guide for their school library.

"The widely accepted definition of creativity (the generation, originality and usefulness of ideas) now encompasses 21st century skills such as collaboration, problem solving and innovation."

"The aim of the FFL and '6 C's' framework is to assist students in developing their 'future-focused skills' or you may have also heard the phrase '21st-century skills'."

"How the structure and function of a learning culture lead to improvements in achievement and outcomes is where change efforts should be focused."

"School librarians are leading the charge to integrate tech into learning, spearheading coding initiatives, and serving as tech experts, according to SLJ's 2019 technology survey."

"What kind of education would prepare young people for this amazing and terrifying period of history? For 40 years, we've been talking about the aims and strategies of 21st century learning. Now that we're a couple of decades in, we have a pretty good view."

"Digital Citizenship is a concept which helps teachers, technology leaders and parents to understand what students/children/technology users should know to use technology appropriately. Digital Citizenship is more than just a teaching tool; it is a way to prepare students/technology users for a society full of technology. "

"Technology should therefore play an important role in education if we want to provide teachers with learning environments that support 21st century methods of teaching and, most important, if we want to provide students with the skills they need to succeed."

"The best modern workplace skills for students to have are the ones that foster trust, promote a leadership mindset, and create productive results."

An article on change as part of a commercial product.

Author Elena Aguilar hopes that when educators build their own resilience they'll not only continue teaching, but they'll have more energy to change the systems that are depleting them. She offers a series of reflections and activities that teachers can do together throughout the year can build habits that cultivate resilience.

"Unleashing the instructional leadership of librarians to foster schools that are future ready"

"Current education is calling on schools to transition into a new paradigm of learning. We can see this in the challenges given through current standards (e.g., Common Core State Standards, Next Generation Science Standards, and International Standards for Technology in Education), the demands of the work place, the complexity of the world, and lack of effectiveness of the "stand and deliver" method of teaching. 21st century teaching and learning is this new paradigm that is trying to create students that will be problem solvers and critical thinkers. Our society is changing at such a rapid pace; we, as educators, are preparing students for jobs that don't exist yet. This means we have to change how we teach and how we lead our schools."

"Change is a multifaceted process, it requires a suite of cognitive and emotional skills to transport you smoothly through the process from start to finish. And being change-ready means that you have already spent the time and effort to strengthen this toolkit of mental skills so that you are primed and ready. This means that you are able to intelligently anticipate, prepare for, manage and respond to change. In doing so you are well placed to thrive off the resulting opportunities, as well as mitigate any potential negative consequences. "

"Initiating and maintaining a Personal Learning Network (PLN) can be an incredibly exciting, rewarding and very effective way to engage with professional learning. However, learning mediated by social networks is not without its challenges. "

"A cohort of 33 teacher-librarians is viewed as indispensable to the district's vision of a technology-infused path to improved outcomes for students. After the community passed a $24 million technology levy in 2013, the district began its weLearn 1:1 initiative, which by 2017 will provide all teachers and students in grades 3-12 with an electronic device in a flexible learning environment, and a personalized digital curriculum."

"Educators, schools, government officials, and parents must re-think education and how to prepare the next generation to take advantage of the plethora of opportunities and overcome the challenges enabled by ever-increasing technological change. "

Online Teachers' Guide to Global, Collaborative Teaching and Learning. This guide, a much-needed update on the Exchange 2.0 guide, is an unbranded, user-driven resource for teachers looking for projects and resources to collaborate with other classes around the world.