Watch & Learn: Stepping Up to Lead IT

When David Chan started his career in education, he began in the classroom. Now, he works as the director of instructional technology at Evanston Township…

Mark Bergen / Bloomberg:
A look at Alphabet-owned Verily’s opioid addition rehab clinic in Dayton, Ohio, which has largely taken a low-tech approach to treat ~5,200 patients  —  Christopher Boggs started smoking pot in his teens, moved on to cocaine, and finally settled on opioids, which allowed him to evade …

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple paused hiring last month for many jobs outside of R&D, including some corporate functions and hardware and software engineering roles  —  Apple Inc. has paused hiring for many jobs outside of research and development, an escalation of an existing plan to reduce budgets heading …

Imagine this scenario: An office at the state or district level distributes a lengthy instructional guide to school-level educators and leaders. The resource is chock-full of sound, research-backed advice for effective teaching and learning with digital devices.
The only problem? The resource goes unread by practitioners, who have a million things to do and not nearly enough time to do them. This is a familiar scenario that plagues many educators and administrators. School and district leaders need a way to ensure that instructional practices make their way from a playbook to the classroom…