The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

It glosses over the herky-jerky reality of learning and the nuanced practice of teaching. Which is what stirred teachers at Orchard Lake Elementary School in Minnesota back in 2011. The teachers called it Impact Academy and piloted it in the fall of 2013 within Orchard Lake Elementary. Paul-based Bush Foundation.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2017

In Massachusetts, an emerging partnership between private funders and the state department of education aims to help teachers across the Commonwealth learn, share and spread best practices when it comes to leveraging new instructional models and technologies. You can personalize learning just fine without technology.

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User Generated Education

JULY 2, 2017

The types of desired learning activities should drive how the learning space should be set up as discussed in the case studies reported by the Hechinger Report article, Personalized Learning: Why Your Classroom Should Sound Like A Coffee Shop : As a first step, they began with ideas and used them to define the space.

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Edsurge

MAY 16, 2017

The term “grades” has become almost taboo among some educators in New Hampshire, where seven elementary schools are slowly ditching the word altogether through a program known as. NG2] tackles long-standing educational barriers to personalized learning. that of 'Grades,'” Earick writes in an upcoming report on the project.

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BYOT Network

JUNE 28, 2016

This post is part of a series about the Building Blocks for Personalized Learning. Begin with the Purpose – The five major purposes of communication are as follows: to inform, to express feelings, to imagine, to influence, and to meet social expectations (Communication, 2016).

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BYOT Network

JUNE 28, 2016

This post is part of a series about the Building Blocks for Personalized Learning. Begin with the Purpose – The five major purposes of communication are as follows: to inform, to express feelings, to imagine, to influence, and to meet social expectations (Communication, 2016).

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edWeb.net

MAY 23, 2019

When schools talk about personalized learning, one of the first things they need to do is consider these jagged profiles. Context: The context of a student’s home and learning environment matter too. The post The Importance of Jaggedness in Personalized Learning appeared first on edWeb. Join the Community.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 29, 2018

If you’d like to check out the Must-Read IT blogs from previous years, view our lists from 2017 , 2016 , 2015 , 2014 and 2013. The organization’s blog offers useful insights and advice on classroom technologies, digital citizenship, personalized learning and more. Keller ISD Digital Learning Blog. iste | Read the blog.

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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

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. Mastery Design Collaborative (MDC) works with schools and districts that are focused on designing school models that personalize learning. Stay tuned!

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Specifically, he wondered why the field of vocational psychology wasn't being translated to elementary and middle school, when the students he worked with at Qualcomm seemed invested and eager to learn. Bergin currently teaches first grade but she’s taught elementary grades at El Cajon’s Anza Elementary for years, mainly grades K-2.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Education Elements provides support for schools and districts as they transform their school models to personalize learning. The company got its start in late 2010, spurred by founder Anthony Kim’s work with KIPP Empower , an elementary charter school in Los Angeles. Stay tuned! What have I done wrong?”

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Edsurge

JULY 29, 2020

Department of Education reported that for the 2015-2016 school year, more than 7 million students —or 16 percent of all students—and 20 percent of high school students are chronically absent. In elementary school, frequent absences are linked to a higher likelihood of dropout—even if attendance improves over time.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2021

On a morning this fall at Washington Elementary, a young boy, sitting at a table with five of his peers, held a tablet while he built a digital snowman — a cool proposition given the 85-degree heat just outside his air-conditioned classroom. With about a day planning, [teachers] shift right into distance learning,” Rooney said.

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Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2017

In the case of Baltimore County Public Schools (BCPS) , when the district began a huge leap to personalized learning, its leaders consciously began designing a communications strategy to bring together students, teachers and families. Katherine Cox, Instructional Coach at Mays Chapel Elementary. According to the S.T.A.T.

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Edsurge

MAY 28, 2020

It’s an opportunity for the future teachers who are enrolled at the college to apply what they learn in class in a practical setting, testing out lesson plans with real elementary students. McGhee, assistant clinical professor of elementary education at Auburn University. This year, camp is canceled due to COVID-19. McGhee says.

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eSchool News

MARCH 6, 2019

In February 2016, the Christensen Institute debuted the Blended Learning Universe (BLU)—an online hub of blended learning resources—in response to more and more schools across the U.S. implementing a blended-learning strategy for students. I’m doing personalized learning, not blended learning.

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Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2017

In mission statements across the country, references to personalized learning abound, hanging proudly from schoolhouse walls. We wanted to prove that it wasn’t just “the best and the brightest” who could achieve at this level—and it certainly wasn’t only elementary and high school students.

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EdNews Daily

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Provide a Personalized Learning Environment. In elementary school, the classroom teacher often serves that function. Some schools create a more personalized environment by organizing into smaller units. We worked with an elementary school that had multi-grade wings for long-term personalization.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 12, 2016

Kindergartners place their backpacks outside in the “hallway” next to a community garden in a Vista elementary school hallway. In elementary schools, students systematically begin learning syntax in addition to block-based programming.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 12, 2016

On September 21-23, 2016, Digital Promise and the U.S. Department of Education hosted the 2016 Education Innovation Clusters Convening (#EdClusters16) in Providence, R.I., EdClusters16 brought more than 140 leading educators, ed-tech entrepreneurs, funders, researchers, and thought leaders to collaborate, work, and learn together.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Four of our seven elementary schools are ranked in the top 20 schools in Pennsylvania, and our high school forensics team is recognized as one of the best teams in the nation. In the elementary and middle schools, the TAC discovered that over 50% of the students were using computers once a month or less. Presidential Scholars.

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MindShift

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

This story about personalized learning was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. It glosses over the herky-jerky reality of learning and the nuanced practice of teaching. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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Marketplace K-12

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

But a lack of high-quality curricula designed to support that personalized learning is stalling the effort, according to a new report. Digital Promise , a California-based nonprofit organization, calls for increased emphasis on supports and resources designed for personalized learning with this more diverse student population.

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Edsurge

MAY 1, 2017

Piedmont Elementary in Alabama, we decided to finally try it. Besides making learning more engaging, combining classes has helped students progress academically. Perhaps best of all, smath always us to personalize learning in new ways. Brandi Todd has been an elementary teacher for sixteen years. Last year at.

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Edsurge

JULY 13, 2017

ISTE Standards for Students , released in 2016, were developed to empower student voice and ensure that learning is a student-driven process of exploration, creativity and discovery no matter where students or teachers are in the thoughtful integration of technology. The standards mesh perfectly with the guiding philosophy of the.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2017

As more schools across the country experiment with d personalized learning approaches to better meet the needs, goals and interests of individual learners, many are overlooking an important piece: arts integration. The Academy is a magnet elementary school is located in a U.S. Photo: Kevin Hagen.

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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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Marketplace K-12

OCTOBER 28, 2016

billion in 2016, according to research by the investment bank Berkery Noyes. ( However, the most recent quarter showed a minor increase of 4 percent going from 99 mergers and acquisitions in 2015 to 103 during this most recent quarter of 2016, said Berkery Noyes. See also: Education Industry Mergers Jumped Significantly in 2016.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

Many charter networks here, including Crescent City Schools, Firstline, ReNEW, and KIPP, have embraced an educational philosophy known as “personalized learning.”. Though personalized learning doesn’t have to include technology, many New Orleans charters have put computers at the center of their personalized learning efforts.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

Summit Learning’s personalized learning program is a key part of the school’s improvement efforts. Personalized learning is one of the most popular goals in schools today. The computers themselves bring concerns about the negative effects of screens on children’s learning and brain development. MESA, Ariz.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

— Digital Promise (@DigitalPromise) February 9, 2016. Most of what our staff does is show up committed and dedicated — they really take care of these kids and make sure that they’re safe, that they’re healthy, that they’re happy, they’re eating, they have clothes,” says Amy Creeden, an elementary school principal.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2021

Education Department civil rights data, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater professor Scott Peters found that on a state level “equity got worse” in gifted education from 2016 to 2018, with underrepresentation of Hispanic children in a majority of states and of Black students in three-quarters of states, he wrote in an email.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 21, 2019

The space, upgraded in the 2015-2016 school year, is continuously changing. In 2016, a study using brain imaging to examine the effects of standing desks on high school students revealed improvements in working memory as well as in students’ ability to plan, organize and finish tasks. Barrett’s study of 153 U.K.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

I visited many elementary and middle schools where students, with bulging headphones wrapped over their heads, stared at separate computers, each learning something different at the same moment. Others were jumping ahead to concepts that were grade levels ahead of what they would traditionally be learning.

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Doug Levin

APRIL 21, 2016

For each of the three primary (equity-focused) federal educational technology programs authorized by Congress since the passage of the 1994 revision to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), below I provide details on the programs’: legislative authorization (i.e., FY 2016 $0 (President Obama’s request: $200,000,000).

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2015

note : This year the editors selected ten stories we believe either highlighted an important issue in 2015 and/or signaled the beginning of an escalating trend or issue for 2016 (look for No. Blended and personalized learning were two topics on the rise this year. Next page: Making personalized learning possible.

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