The CoolCatTeacher

JULY 20, 2017

Another 2015 study shows that only 30% of teachers improve substantially with PD. Coming back from GAETC 2015, I realized that I had been to the conference before but my classroom was unchanged. 4 – Use Student Feedback to Shape Learning with Just in Time Learning Strategies. Let’s learn.

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Edsurge

JULY 11, 2017

In 2015, after the state passed a law requiring each local board of education to have a virtual option for students in grades 9-12, the Athens City School District created Renaissance. We sit down with students and create a personalized learning plan for each of them. International License.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Assessment. Research reveals that students ubiquitously perceive assessment as something that is “done to them [sic] by someone else — and is out of their control.” With very little first-hand experience with personalized learning, many teachers and education administrators have difficulty fathoming its power.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

and LEHI, Utah — IXL Learning , developer of personalized learning products used by millions of people worldwide, announced it has acquired Emmersion , the Utah-based leader in certifying language ability through artificial intelligence. Guide student learning with confidence. SAN MATEO, Calif.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 18, 2015

Next class: August 10, 2015. Differentiation in the classroom means meeting students where they are most capable of learning. Ideas include visual, audio, video, mindmaps, infographics, graphic organizers, charts and tables, screenshots, screencasts, images, games and simulations, webtools, and hybrid assessments. 21st, 2015.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 29, 2017

Although low-skilled adults have minimal access to educational opportunities, I outlined in my 2015 blog post some ways in which technology has the potential to provide critical access to quality, personalized learning experiences for this underserved population.

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Doug Levin

APRIL 30, 2016

Employed measures of academic achievement that were standardized assessments or norm-referenced district- or school-wide tests; Reported the duration of the study; and, Otherwise provided sufficient statistical data to calculate effect sizes. What did the meta-analysis reveal?

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 10, 2017

Personalized learning is still in its infancy—as are the curricular tools and resources available to support teachers in implementing it. There are plenty of resources with step-by-step guides and blueprints designed to walk teachers through a process to personalize learning. Image Credit: Mark Engstrom.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

There Should Be Something for Everyone For educators, the biggest advantage of digital resources is the ability to personalize content for students. Educators use a variety of resources to meet the needs and interests of individual students, including videos, images, games, non-fiction text and varying types of assessments.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

This latest deal—the ninth since Gulati joined in 2015—is part of PowerSchool’s ongoing drive to create a one-stop shop where data about a student or teacher can be collected and shared across the different tools they use in their day-to-day lives. Some of those assets expanded its footprint in the SIS market, like Sungard K-12 and Chalkable.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 3, 2017

Policies should focus on creating authentic, personal learning experiences. one of the areas that I’m truly trying to push is making sure that we’re creating dynamic, authentic and personal learning experiences for kids. [00:04:00]. That was some sort of a benchmark or maybe just a common assessment.

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Neo LMS

MARCH 6, 2018

In our third and final blog in our series on the Next Generation Learning Challenges (NGLC) we’ll explore successes in the elementary school context. Read our previous blog posts on Assessments and Personalization for the bigger picture. Personalized learning. Another key feature of RHS is personalized learning.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 28, 2023

With built-in student differentiation and support, every student gets a personalized learning experience designed for their unique needs. Her books and resources are used around the world: THE WRITING STRATEGIES BOOK (2017) and THE READING STRATEGIES BOOK (1st edition) (2015) have been translated into French, Chinese, and Spanish.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

In October, we will share a guide highlighting the trends, insights and challenges we've learned about while profiling five key players in the world of school redesign. Education Elements provides support for schools and districts as they transform their school models to personalize learning. Stay tuned! What have I done wrong?”

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 12, 2016

30+ ideas to improve learning with awesome classroom design From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. A well-designed classroom boosts student learning by as much as 16% (Barrett, Zhang, Davies, & Barrett 2015), but overdecorating is a distraction. Barrett, P. Folkins, J. Friberg, J.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 24, 2017

Prompted by district administrators’ desire to find ways to build student agency, engage student passion and personalize learning, we hoped blended learning would shake up the status quo and spark large scale change. We knew that meant more than simply integrating technology into the school day.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

“We do not believe that there is yet definitive proof that personalized learning works better than other models.”­. — All That We’ve Learned: Five Years of Working on Personalized Learning. First the word was blended learning, before it was hybrid, and now it’s personalized learning.

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Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2017

Change has proven rewarding at CICS West Belden , a high-performing K-8 charter school in Chicago, which recently shifted to a personalized learning model. For CICS West Belden, the “next level” was shifting to a personalized learning model, moving students towards competency-based education.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 13, 2017

At BWRSD, we have used the opportunity to develop and communicate a new, shared vision of personalized instruction that fosters deeper learning for all students. Our journey began in the Fall of 2015 with the convening of a Future Ready Leadership Team representing a cross-section of school and district leaders.

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Edsurge

APRIL 25, 2018

My appointment came at a time when 77 percent of McComb’s kindergarteners had not met the required performance on the state’s kindergarten readiness assessment. They wanted student-centered teaching and learning environments where success would be determined by growth rather than state assessment proficiency or seat time.

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Educate AI Magazine

MARCH 1, 2025

Data was scatteredgrades, assessments, behavior tracking all kept separately, creating silos that were inefficient and obstructive. 2015 The Otus AI domain was established, and early conversations with leaders like Deborah Quazzo helped shape our perspective on leveraging AI in education.

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Edsurge

JUNE 28, 2019

AltSchool, a developer of personalized learning software that once operated a chain of “microschools,” is getting a major makeover. This morning, the San Francisco-based company announced a series of “sweeping changes” that includes a new name—Altitude Learning—and new leadership.

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Neo LMS

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

The second in our New Generation Learning series focuses on personalization. Where last time we drew attention to schools that had made innovative leaps in assessment protocols, today we look at schools that are taking the design of personalized learning pathways seriously.

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Neo LMS

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

The second in our New Generation Learning series focuses on personalization. Where last time we drew attention to schools that had made innovative leaps in assessment protocols, today we look at schools that are taking the design of personalized learning pathways seriously.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2017

Five years into a massive transition to a personalized learning model, Educators at Fulton County School District in Georgia are scratching their heads wondering where they went wrong. District leaders even went so far as to dub the hardware “personalized learning devices.” “At It should have been communicated better.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 9, 2017

They say I’m personalizing learning. I decided to learn everything I could about mastery-based assessments so that I could start to close the learning gaps. Mastery-based assessment directly addressed this issue. After shifting to mastery-based assessment, the next logical step was 1:1 instruction.

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Waterford

OCTOBER 30, 2019

How would you discover a student’s learning style? Measuring learning styles often involves an assessment such as this one from the Georgia Department of Education. One study conducted in Taiwan, for example, came to the conclusion that educating students on learning styles can encourage self-reflection—always a positive thing.[9]

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Edsurge

JULY 29, 2020

Distance learning began March 23. Simon and the rest of the district turned their focus to food security , internet connectivity for families in need and online suicide prevention assessments. Her organization recommends that attendance is taken for every in-person and virtual instructional experience.

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Doug Levin

APRIL 21, 2016

FY 2015 $0. Obama administration FY 2015 request for a proposed replacement educational technology program (see page 5) : “ $200 million for a new ConnectEDucators initiative that would help educators transition to using technology and data to personalize learning and improve CCR [college- and career-ready] instruction and assessment.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2017

My bet is that by 2040, our children will look back on this period between 2015 and 2030 in education technology much the same way internet historians look to the period 1995 to 2010 as the birth of the commercial web. acquisition by LinkedIn in 2015 shows that billion-dollar exits are not limited to companies in higher education.

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Reading By Example

OCTOBER 20, 2016

In a typical teacher’s day, taking the time to learn about digital tools can be a low priority. So many things are thrown their way: assessments, evaluation tasks, submitting lesson plans, building duties, parent communications, and so on. Yet…students need to know stuff. We live in the information age.

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edWeb.net

JANUARY 20, 2020

Now educators can make their instruction more effective and provide practice linked directly to progress monitoring and formative assessment results using free digital tools from Microsoft. Creating Quick Quizzes Linked to Personalize Practice.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 27, 2015

Summer PD 2015 just ended. Time after time, participants took responsibility for their own learning. Participants worked together as a Personal Learning Network to understand. Learn to follow directions was noted several times as an important take-away. Failed and tried again. Asked questions.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 1, 2017

In December 2015, I found myself toiling away on a fifth grade figurative language lesson in a unique place—a local tech meetup called Code For Vegas. I saw that I needed to move beyond formative assessment of skills. I needed to ask students whether or not they enjoyed the learning experience—that’s what Apple would do.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 7, 2018

In 2015 Deb was selected as a PBS Lead Digital Innovator and in 2018 she was selected as a PBS All Star. Her primary focus is establishing Lighthouse Classrooms to increase the quality of teaching and learning for kindergarten through grade five classrooms.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

This goal-setting feature is part of the Summit Learning Platform, an online tool used in a personalized learning program created by Summit Public Schools. shows that implementing technology is only part of the struggle for public schools seeking to make the switch to personalized learning models.

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Doug Levin

JULY 24, 2017

Since the last edition of a ‘Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News”: I’ve joined efforts to support Net Neutrality protections ; Written further about the prediction made in the book, “Disrupting Class.” Enter personalized learning (PL)." Unified gets a $3.26-million

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