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Create engaging learning environments Tools to transform the teaching experience

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Create engaging learning environments Tools to transform the teaching experience

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Table of ContentsEmpower teachers to shape the next generation 3

Create better learning experiences 4

Microsoft Teams 6

OneNote 8

Putting it all together 10

Microsoft Educator Community 11

In a world transformed by instant information sharing, the role of the classroom is changing. Today, students demand different learning techniques to match their needs. In this guide, you will learn how you can improve the teaching and learning experience for educators, students, and staff.

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Preparing students for the future is more than test scores and grades. From a young age, it’s critical to prepare students with social and emotional skills like teamwork, leadership, and organization to help them grow into self-confident and responsible citizens.

Investing in teacher effectiveness is key to improving student learning. The impact of teacher quality outweighs the impact of any

Empower teachers to shape the next generation

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Personalized learning is more likely to be effective when it promotes collaboration with peers, classroom observation, and teacher feedback.

other school education program or policy. In fact, teacher effectiveness is the largest factor influencing student outcomes, outside of family background. With the right tools in place, everyone can work together more effectively, saving time and giving every student a voice.

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Create better learning experiences

Improve student outcomes with personalized learning

Beyond saving time, technology can provide new ways for teachers and learners to engage in personalized learning that builds on student interests, provides insights around strengths, and imparts social and emotional skills.

Give teachers more time to focus on students

We know that teachers need more time in their day to build relationships with their students. Technology can help teachers reallocate between 20 to 30 percent of their time toward activities they feel would be more impactful. With this time, teachers can potentially leverage technology to help provide more personalized attention to students while helping them develop social and emotional skills.

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Putting Teams in the classroom, along with OneNote Class Notebook and other Microsoft products, is a way of giving every student a voice.

Craig Browning IT Director Davidson Academy

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Encourage students to work together

Collaborative platforms provide an authentic environment for educators to experience socially-embedded learning. With the right technology in place, teachers can more easily assign group projects, giving students valuable opportunities to develop social and emotional skills.

Enable communication across schools

Streamlined staff communication means more transparency—and fewer emails. Streamlined communication across the school lays the necessary groundwork for school leaders, providing a platform to share the knowledge and skills required to influence and improve student outcomes.

Help your teachers connect and collaborate—digitally

When professional development opportunities are more accessible and less time consuming for teachers, it is easier for teachers to work together, solve problems, and support one another. The ability to connect and benefit from their shared expertise is essential to building a collaborative environment.

70%of students believe they can achieve better growth and content mastery when they direct their own learning.1

1 The class of 2030 and life-ready learning: The technology imperative

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Spotlight: Microsoft TeamsMicrosoft Teams is a digital hub for collaboration both in class and across the school

Creating protocols for communicating and collaborating among educators and leaders is difficult if you don’t have the right tools. Even when protocols are established and tools are chosen, it can be time consuming for school leaders to manage.

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Teams keeps communication and content in one place. It encourages effective collaboration while preparing students for the technological demands of tomorrow.

Teams integrates seamlessly with a wide range of popular third-party education apps, including G Suite for Education and Office 365.

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School Improvement Advisory Committees (SIAC)

School improvement programs and initiatives require easy collaboration among diverse teams as well as staff access to rich data analytics.

Incident response plans

When an incident occurs, a fast and accurate response is necessary. Using Teams, incident response teams can share the right information with the community.

Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) programs

Channels in Teams can be organized around the five key SEL competencies: self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship skills, and responsible decision making.

Teacher evaluations

Administrators can use Teams to share professional development resources and manage private communications for teacher performance evaluations.

See how teachers and staff can work together in Teams

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Get started with Teams.

Microsoft Teams is available for free through your Office 365 subscription, so your students and staff can start using it today.

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Teams is a way for students to interact, gather information, and share it right when they need it.

Amy Welsh Chair of the Mathematics Department Davidson Academy

After a year-long pilot of Teams, math teachers at Davidson Academy improved collaboration and transparency in their department and moved to completely digital and paperless classrooms.

Read the case study.

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Spotlight: OneNote

OneNote is a digital binder that can be used by staff, teachers, and students to organize and share content and files. OneNote makes it easy for everyone to work together.

OneNote Class and Staff Notebooks help teachers organize class content, deliver interactive lessons, and provide feedback. Teachers can create a personal workspace for every student, a content library for handouts, and a collaboration space for lessons and creative activities.

Students can access course materials,complete schoolwork, take quizzes, anduse Microsoft Learning Tools like ReadAloud and Line Focus—all from within theirOneNote Notebook.

Teacher evaluations Create a more authentic and transparent evaluation process with private notebooks. Share your observations privately with the educator and save results and goals for easy reference.

Substitute lists Educators can digitally save lesson plans, schedules, and other classroom information to easily share with substitutes.

Policy and procedure manuals

Keep important information like school policies and calendars in a shared content library, accessible by staff members from anywhere.

Providing feedback on lesson plans

School leaders can easily give real-time feedback to lesson plans in different forms, including text, picture, ink, audio, or even video.

See how teachers and staff can work together in OneNote

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Get started with OneNote.

OneNote is available to all your students and staff for free through your Office 365 subscription. Start using OneNote in your organization today at portal.office.com.

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OneNote is great. It’s a super-intuitive way to organize and access instructional materials and communicate with students. I use OneNote for everything!

Kristi Becker Social Studies Teacher Assumption High School

Using OneNote Class Notebooks, teachers at Assumption High School have cut grading time in half, students are more organized, and the school is up-to-date for technology and 21st century skills—so students are better prepared for the modern workforce.

Read the case study.

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Putting it all together

Organize your team with custom channels and tabs that you create to meet your collaboration requirements. Tabs can link directly to files or other content, to Office 365 applications such as Planner and PowerBI, or to apps from education partners like busuu, Canvas, Kahoot!, and Flipgrid.

Move email conversations to Teams to keep your team members up to date in one convenient, easy-to-use workspace. Use the chat feature in Teams in place of short emails to keep your inbox less cluttered.

Schedule video meetings or Skype calls in Teams using meetings, or use the Meet Now feature to quickly and easily meet with team members on the fly.

Teachers can document their goals for personal development, student growth, and learning targets in one place, with the ability to update, compare, and celebrate success throughout the year.

Collaborate with staff to create grade- or subject-wide lesson plans, or work with school leaders to develop school-wide learning goals and curricula.

Keep school policies and procedures together in one shared space that everyone can always find.

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Microsoft Educator Community

Encourage your teachers to become global visionaries

Give your teachers the opportunity to pave the way for their colleagues by encouraging them to join the Microsoft Innovative

Educator (MIE) programs. With the ability to connect to other educators across the world, educators in your schools can benefit from higher standards of teaching innovation. Help your teachers deliver better learning and student outcomes through this professional learning network.

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Enable your teachers to stay ahead of the curve with free professional development opportunities. When your teachers join the Microsoft Educator Community, they’ll find on-demand courses in Microsoft technology, free lesson plans, and training on current topics in the technology and education space.

Learn more about the community: education.microsoft.com.

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