A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 5, 2021

While there is always an innate need for more, it behooves us to think about opportunities that already exist to improve lesson effectiveness while also meeting the unique needs of learners that lead to better outcomes. There is only one thing a teacher can control, and that is how time is used when students are in class. Close the lesson.

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eSchool News

JUNE 10, 2024

With families looking for and considering alternative forms of education and new schools for their children, it’s important to leverage remaining funds to effectively support digital learning initiatives that meet the needs of students, families, and educators.

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 12, 2019

As another school year approaches, teachers are scrambling to set up classrooms, make photocopies of syllabi, attend mandatory meetings, and prepare their curriculum. It is critical that we proactively develop a learning community in our physical and online spaces. First, we must learn our students’ names as soon as possible.

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Neo LMS

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Universities or school districts will have to adapt in order to accommodate quality flexible learning. Demand for K-12 teachers, as well as High School and secondary teachers in the U.S. Read more: 4 Models of blended learning to implement in the classroom. But what does it all mean? will grow by 4% in the next decade.

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 30, 2016

Ironically, I see my students for about the same total amount of time because we are on an A/B schedule and our class meets every other day. I cannot understand why so many secondary schools have students running from class to class every day without giving them the time needed to form meaningful relationships or engage with complex tasks.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 28, 2019

She’s now working with future secondary teachers and new faculty members at University of Indianapolis. Her passion lies in supporting new teachers’ work in the implementation of original pedagogies that strive to meet all students’ needs. She holds an M.Ed. and a Ph.D.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 4, 2023

an accredited private school specializing in blended learning and providing personalized learning experiences. Schools use VHS Learning to provide their students with high-quality online courses. This helps schools to better meet students’ interests, while combatting teacher shortages.”

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 4, 2014

When I landed in New Hampshire, I was eager to see competency-based education in action at the secondary level. Both students had the same rubric with the same competencies and standards to meet, but they were given the flexibility to show mastery of those competencies. This was my first a-ha moment on the trip.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 29, 2020

See what you think: Bold School: Old School Wisdom + New School Technologies = Blended Learning That Works. In Bold School, Kieschnick lays out an effective, workable education framework that blends common sense with technology while reminding teachers that tech is a useful tool for achieving pedagogic goals, not the opposite.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

TARA stands for the Teacher Assistant for Resources & Administration which keeps tools, resources, lessons, IEP’s, and meetings tracked in one place. As I reviewed this product, I’ve seen special education teachers and organizations raving about how TARA has helped them organize IEP progress, meetings, and result tracking.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

That way, they can use that data to design learning experiences that better meet the needs of their students. The post-lesson reflection is an opportunity for students to pause and assess what they think they have learned in a lesson or series of lessons. The third piece to this puzzle is a post-lesson reflection.

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Neo LMS

MARCH 19, 2019

Plenty of examples can be found from Boy Meets World and Dawson’s Creek to Gilmore Girls. When done right, learning as a team works. That is why the flipped classroom, blended learning, PBL, and many more teaching styles require a high degree of social learning. The popular kid has to work with the new kid.

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Hapara

MAY 19, 2022

History class: By the end of class, students will be able to explain how technological advancements during WWI affected soldiers, as evidenced by creating a main claim and supporting that claim with primary and secondary source documents. Create the learning activities and plan appropriate sequence and time frame to help reach learning goal.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Previous research indicates that students who report positive teacher-student relationships were more likely to report high engagement with their learning, and strong teacher-student relationships have been associated with higher academic performance, feelings of competence, greater attendance rates, and pursuit of secondary education.

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Edsurge

MARCH 14, 2017

Think about how to use Twitter, surveys, and town-hall style meetings for your communications. At a minimum you want to consider school leaders, teachers, students and parents but there may be more audiences to think about or more ways to split them up (for example you might want different messages for your secondary vs elementary teachers).

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The Innovative Educator

MAY 16, 2020

In many districts this will mean keeping remote learning for most secondary students and for all primary students who want it. In addition to being face-to-face, classes will be live-streamed for synchronous, asynchronous by students attending school from home or engaging in blended learning. Zoom: For video conferencing.

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EdTechTeam

JULY 30, 2020

You’re going to have to choose some kind of learning management system before you move forward, and most of your decisions from there are going to depend on the choice you make regarding your LMS, anyhow. In this article, I’ve done my best to layout for you the two main choices for secondary LMS, since I myself am a secondary teacher.

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eSchool News

MARCH 13, 2017

The Georgetown Center on Education and the Workforce published a report stating that by 2020, 65 percent of our economy’s jobs will require post-secondary education or training beyond high school. That means that students without these post-secondary milestones will only be applicable for 35 percent of jobs. Our Blended School Model.

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Edsurge

MAY 28, 2020

A Foundation of Research You wouldn’t necessarily know it from the pandemic-era panic, but online education for elementary and secondary schools is not new. For proof, check out the “ Handbook of Research on K-12 Online and Blended Learning.” Department of Education’s 2017 National Education Technology Plan. (A McGhee says.

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techlearning

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

a non-profit organization empowering schools with the industry’s most extensive variety of online and blended learning programs, has opened registration for its 2018 summer program. Because VHS summer courses can be accessed day or night, students can still meet work and other commitments while getting ahead academically.”

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techlearning

JULY 10, 2018

a Massachusetts-based non-profit organization helping schools provide their students with a variety of online and blended learning programs, has spurred institutions in Rhode Island and Vermont to give their students greater access to the wide array of VHS core and elective courses. Courses are approved for initial eligibility by NCAA.

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Shake Up Learning

JUNE 2, 2020

Synchronous is very difficult when students are at home, where we cannot control the home learning environment. Asynchronous : students are engaged in learning at different times, offering more flexibility for schedules and learning needs. This is usually online or in a blended learning environment. Google Meet.

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Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

'" Tagged on: September 20, 2017 Two edtech champions to join White House offices as fellows | EdScoop → The fellows will serve directly with White House offices and bring backgrounds in one-to-one and blended learning programs.

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Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

'" Tagged on: September 20, 2017 Two edtech champions to join White House offices as fellows | EdScoop → The fellows will serve directly with White House offices and bring backgrounds in one-to-one and blended learning programs.

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eSchool News

JUNE 24, 2016

Educators point to the ability to learn from colleagues, in addition to experts, as essential for enhancing their abilities. All six sessions will take place in the convention center’s Expo Hall, meeting room #8. Meeting rooms are located in Hall C at the back of the 1200 aisle. Personalized Learning Roundtable.

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Fractus Learning

MAY 11, 2015

At Lenoir-Rhyne University in Hickory, North Carolina, faculty in the School of Education have developed pathways to help teaching candidates gain experience exploring, evaluating, and applying methods for online and blended instruction. These courses include blended methods and technologies for blended learning environments.

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Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts

DECEMBER 5, 2016

. ‘Assignments’ like this are great because they force us (teachers John Sarte, Alan Soiseth and myself) to think about what it is we value, and strive towards as we build our program at Inquiry Hub Secondary School. DCL’ at Inquir y Hub – Time to Dream, Create, and Learn. Background (Part 2 – Design).

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techlearning

MAY 7, 2018

Learning other languages can create exciting career and life opportunities, but many school districts face constraints that prevent them from offering a wide variety of options. VHS provides courses taught in global online classrooms for secondary school students and online professional development for educators.

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techlearning

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Students at participating schools enroll in VHS courses of their choice if the course has openings and students meet course prerequisites. We are excited about expanding our offerings in the future to engage even more students." VHS also provides educators at local schools with graduate-level professional development and services.

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techlearning

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Students may enroll in any VHS course of their choosing, as long as they meet course prerequisites. VHS is a Massachusetts-based non-profit organization that has, for over 22 years, provided middle and high schools from 40 states and 33 countries with access to high-quality online and blended learning experiences.

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Shake Up Learning

AUGUST 11, 2020

Students might not be sure what to expect from online learning, and chances are they’re a little bummed about it. Meet the Teacher and Students Flipgrid. This is one of the cutest back-to-school online ideas, and it came from Brandon Sigman in the Shake Up Learning Community Facebook group. . These activities are easy and fun.

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User Generated Education

AUGUST 12, 2017

The following text provides a summary of Rogers’ major themes about learning and education from Freedom to Learn and comes from Weibell, C. Principles of learning: 7 principles to guide personalized, student-centered learning in the technology-enhanced, blended learning environment.

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eSchool News

MAY 27, 2016

The nation’s fourth largest public school district, Miami-Dade County Public Schools (MDCPS), is running a semester-long pilot program utilizing the itslearning learning management system (LMS) to select, deliver and manage the instructional components for secondary level social science courses in 10 schools.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

They need to look at the growth story as well as whether or not the students are meeting proficiency standards. Score Distribution Matters: Most state assessments have four or five levels on the proficiency scale, and it’s common to just focus on the number of students meeting or exceeding the standards. About the Presenter.

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edWeb.net

MAY 19, 2021

In the edLeader Panel, “ Back to the Future: 3 Key Actions for 2021-22 You Can Take NOW ,” sponsored by Alma SIS , educational leaders described projects they plan to pursue post-COVID to maximize newly available federal funds, foster equity and inclusion, and “future proof” their learning communities.

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techlearning

JUNE 4, 2018

a non-profit organization empowering schools with the industry’s most extensive variety of online and blended learning programs, in partnership with Concord Consortium and industry partners, presents The Solar Energy Design Challenge. The Virtual High School (VHS Inc.),a

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Revere hosted a learning tour for other schools last year, to share its experiences with personalizing learning. Blended learning was the gateway to personalized learning in the Natick Public Schools, about 20 miles west of Boston. Photo: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report.

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