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How Differentiating Instruction Helps Students Connect to Learning

Edsurge

I’ve spent 16 years serving on and chairing the board of the National Dropout Prevention Center (NDPC) and 25 years leading companies that serve schools and students of all kinds. Environment —Optimize your classroom to support independent, small group, and whole group instruction and to reflect the multiplicity of students in your classes.

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'Lost in the Cracks' Alabama District Brings Personalized Learning to Incarcerated Youth

Edsurge

In the traditional model, you still want to differentiate and meet students’ needs, but sometimes it can be challenging when you need to move a student a little bit faster.” Most of them were dropouts.” “In They were lost in the cracks,” says Carter. They were not at the juvenile facility center.

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Don Kidd Joins Achieve3000 as Vice President of Strategic Sales

techlearning

He has established and managed partnerships with several notable organizations such as the Gates Foundation, National Dropout Prevention Center, Successful Practices Network, National Superintendents Association and American Association of School Administrators.

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Does Presence Equal Progress? Tracking Engagement in Online Schools

Edsurge

We’ve seen stories about a dropout factory, or a district school where only a small percentage of students are proficient in math or reading (and not getting any better with time or interventions or waivers). Immediate data visualization is a powerful tool that enables truly personalized interaction and differentiated instruction.

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Improving Social-Emotional and Reading Skills

edWeb.net

SEL also decreases behavioral issues, dropout rates, drug use, and teen pregnancy, so the advantages of including it in elementary and secondary classes are clear. Recent research has shown that SEL increases high school graduation rates, and post-secondary enrollment and graduation rates, as well as employment rates and wages.

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Fuel Education Honors Seven Programs for Transforming Education for Students

techlearning

Southwest Plains Regional Service Center (Kan.) – for giving dropouts and at-risk students an opportunity to earn a high school diploma and expanding access to online courses to hundreds of students across the state. For details about this year’s winners, their programs, and how they are using FuelEd solutions, visit [link].

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Is the new education reform hiding in plain sight?

The Hechinger Report

Differentiated instruction was conceived in the 1950s. Students would not be recipients of lessons, but drivers of them. This basic idea matters because even given current excitement around personalized learning, much of what’s declared fresh about it has been done for years.