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K–12 Departments Work Collaboratively to Support New Pedagogies

EdTech Magazine

A 2017 Medium post from the Office of Educational Technology laments the lack of clarity about the term “personalized learning”: “The lack of a consistent definition and language for a relatively complex idea has hampered both understanding and effective ­implementation,” the article states. Enter the silos.

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Giving Students Flexibility With Competency-Based Education

Digital Promise

But one question left unanswered is how does competency-based education seamlessly mix or align in an environment where students are completing personalized lessons using a learning management system (LMS)? They explained their goal was to perfect competency-based learning and grading first, and then begin blending learning.

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Finding ‘Personalized Learning’ and Other Edtech Buzzwords on the Gartner Hype Cycle

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Slope of Enlightenment: Competency-Based Learning. Alongside personalized learning are a whole heap of concepts that some have declared are a necessary part of personalized learning. Competency-based learning is one of these. But there is a phrase for that: deeper learning.

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Why Middle Schoolers Thrive in a Self-Paced Classroom

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It turns out young adolescents are extremely capable of engaging in self-paced, blended learning. Similar to the flipped classroom, the model is an approach based on blended learning, self-paced instruction, and mastery-based grading. In fact, the traditional way of teaching was what wasn’t working for us.

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Not Just Buzzwords: How Teachers Bring Big Ideas, Innovative Practices to Life

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Starting something in these areas means that, by definition, there is typically more upside than downside because the alternative is that students will have no other options. From this base, Chesapeake High School, for example, is experimenting with blended learning throughout the school and allowing teachers more freedom to innovate.

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Four Ways to Redefine Parent Teacher Conferences—With a Little Help from Ironman

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I most definitely didn’t plan a project to have something like the superhero project culminate before every parent-teacher conference—that would feel forced. How to integrate social emotional learning —plus a guide to SEL. How to implement blended learning —plus a guide to blended learning.

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Goodbye ABCs: How One State is Moving Beyond Grade Levels and Graded Assessments

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The program follows six key tenets: project-based learning, learner agency, whole person development, blended learning and competency-based assessment. The district uses a competency-based scale where grades are broken down into standards for each subject.