Catlin Tucker

MARCH 25, 2024

Reading Support: Provide additional reading support, such as guided reading sessions, to help improve comprehension and develop their active reading strategies. Math Problem Solving: Work through complex math problems together, modeling problem-solving strategies, and discussing different approaches to find solutions.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

After spending the last six months helping school leaders around the country design and implement their reopening plans, here are three leadership strategies to prioritize—and two to try to avoid—in order to provide teachers, students and caregivers a smoother experience to start the school year. There are also pitfalls to avoid at this time.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Paul, Minnesota, and in my new role, I’ve drawn heavily on what I learned from my experience conducting middle school orchestras. These four lessons from my conducting years are guiding my current work with educators who are implementing personalized learning in their classrooms. And poetry. And biology.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 3, 2017

As Clayton Christensen recently said to me, just as people have taken the phrase “disruptive innovation” to justify whatever they already wanted to do, people are using the phrase personalized learning—and a whole host of other terms—in a similar manner. Peak of Inflated Expectations: Personalized Learning.

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Graphite Blog

MARCH 12, 2021

New research from Common Sense has found that the number of teens and young adults who report feeling depressed has grown significantly throughout the pandemic , something that schools will need to reckon with during the return to in-person learning. Did that compliment make you more aware of that person's presence?

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Edsurge

AUGUST 2, 2018

Ahead of the 2018 EdSurge Fusion conference in October, we talked with three attendees about how their focus on personalizing learning has enabled them to think differently about how they serve their students. Students have more agency in their education and are becoming creators and contributors in the learning process.

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 23, 2024

Among the various co-teaching approaches, the use of teacher-led stations within a station rotation model stands out for its ability to consistently deliver targeted, differentiated , and personalized instruction. Group 2 (On Grade Level): Students read a standard-level folktale and discuss the central message.

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Edsurge

MAY 1, 2020

You could certainly do group exercises in front of the computer but, depending on the age of the kids, you could use free apps, some with geotagging, to run around the block and see how far you have gone or do a scavenger hunt in your neighborhood. For example, what do virtual conversations look like, or virtual art projects?

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

But after a year-long, data-driven, deep dive into how people understand and apply the learning approaches variously called personalized learning, individualized instruction and differentiation, we’re intimately familiar with Shakespeare’s conundrum. At EdSurge, we’re researchers and journalists, not philosophers. What It Is.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Instead, I give him a little time and pass him his bag of calming strategies, nonverbally encouraging him to utilize one until he’s ready to join us. I stress over whether the hard work put into instruction and personalized learning pathways for each of my students will “pay off” in terms of their growth and achievement.

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Neo LMS

JUNE 21, 2022

For instance, consistently being on time for class is an underappreciated time management exercise. Micro learning eliminates distractions so students can concentrate on bite-sized pieces of information. Personalized learning. Third-party integrations help teachers create a better learning experience for students.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

As schools return to in-person learning, educators face the challenge of addressing the diverse emotional needs of students who have experienced unprecedented disruptions. As we navigate this new landscape, schools must adopt innovative and practical strategies to support students’ SEL needs, even with limited time and resources.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

AUGUST 7, 2024

See also 25 Questions To Guide Teaching With Project-Based Learning PBL Culture-Building Strategies Those challenges can feel overwhelming. Implement the strategies outlined here and reinforce the culture you and your students have built together throughout the year. Your students can and will acquire these skills in doing PBLs.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

This blog post is part of a series that highlight different stakeholders' perspectives on purchasing practices for K-12 personalized learning tools. On a short written exercise students had no preference between the physical keyboard and the on-screen keyboard. These scores and observations shaped the development of our RFP.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Coaches are leveraging AI to curate research, synthesize best practices, and develop instructional strategies tailored to their schools. Some schools restrict AI for creative writing, critical thinking exercises, and certain assessments to ensure students develop their own ideas–an idea that coaches recommend.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

With this latest—and largest—surge of coronavirus infections in the United States, K-12 schools that hadn’t yet reopened for in-person learning now see few paths to do so in the near term, and many of the schools that were offering some face-to-face instruction are now pulling back into full-time remote learning.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

OCTOBER 27, 2021

It’s all a strategy game that determines how they can manage their time between answering questions and maximing their money and resources in the game. . This could be used for actual work assignments or for rapport-building exercises for students. The post Need an easier way to personalize learning & differentiate lessons?

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Of those, 95 percent of teachers and 100 percent of administrators agreed that differentiation is an important instructional strategy. 95 percent of teachers and 100 percent of administrators agreed that differentiation is an important instructional strategy. Unfortunately, it's not that simple.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

This past week, we traveled to the Golden, Colorado to attend the Conference of Online and Blended Learning (COBL), put on by the iLearn Collaborative. Here is what we learned: In his opening keynote, Tom Vander Ark, CEO of Getting Smart, asked the audience, “Why student-centered learning?”

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Edsurge

JULY 18, 2017

In the first days of camp, students complete a diagnostic activity to gauge reading comprehension and are placed into one of two groups, where books and exercises are tailored to their specific abilities to maximize progress. During individualized learning activities, Spencer focuses on skills like identifying textual evidence.

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EdNews Daily

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Then, flipped classrooms and blended learning introduced compelling ways of leveraging digital tools to maximize instructional time and student-teacher interactions. A lot of times a teacher doesn’t believe a student can learn, but students working on a screen at their own pace can demonstrate achievement.”.

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Edsurge

MARCH 11, 2019

Join the Club: Educators interested in learning more about Faculty Club opportunities, or being featured in an interview, are invited to reach out to us at educators@coursehero.com. Using tech to personalize learning Robertson has long believed that the linear approach to teaching may not be right for everyone.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Another reason for the concern is that as educators increasingly use digital tools to personalize learning for students, some have struggled to ensure that the environments they create are not isolating. The real magic of blended learning occurs when teachers use technology to boost human interaction, in both frequency and impact.

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Catlin Tucker

JULY 30, 2023

Blended learning seamlessly weaves together online and in-person learning experiences to boost student engagement and meet the unique needs of a diverse class by providing flexible pathways through learning experiences.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

OCTOBER 27, 2021

It’s all a strategy game that determines how they can manage their time between answering questions and maximing their money and resources in the game. . This could be used for actual work assignments or for rapport-building exercises for students. The post Need an easier way to personalize learning & differentiate lessons?

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 14, 2016

During the 14 years that I lived and worked in that immersive environment, I learned the clear value of knowing more about my students than whatever was or was not reflected in their schoolwork. But it was not until years later that I learned that personalized learning is much more than having personal connections to students.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

JULY 20, 2024

Strategies for Teaching AI Concepts Without Technology by TeachThought Staff Preface: This post is primarily for general content-area K-12 teachers (likely 6-12). You don’t need a wind tunnel to learn about aerodynamics or boiling water to help students understand boiling points. This helps them understand sorting processes.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Stop me if you’ve seen this one before: In an effort to encourage teachers to abandon traditional, lecture-style instruction in favor of next-generation learning models, we sit them down and ask them to listen for an hour or two. Conversations around personalized learning are nothing new for the staff at the M.S.D.

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edWeb.net

JANUARY 26, 2017

In fact, a conservative 30-40% of students may require an alternate learning path or support during their learning. Personalized learning comes into play with such a high level of learner diversity. Research and technology are key to improving personalized learning.

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User Generated Education

AUGUST 12, 2017

The big aha for me was that school systems should be focused on helping learners develop the skills for how to learn not what to learn, a concept and goal that as an educator I’ve held onto ever since. We also discussed sequential learning, especially in math, mastering a skill before proceeding to the next level of learning.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2017

With this simple exercise, you have identified an area of need—as well as a valuable SME who is already overcoming the challenge. So, how can you start using data to provide personalized, teacher-centric PD? This gives teachers options—a collection of proven strategies and approaches that they can try in their classrooms.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Personalized learning for struggling readers can be timesaving and easy to execute. Students struggling with fluency can do chunking and phrasing exercises with cards that contain phrases to learn to read multiple words at a time, instead of word by word. Find all of Cindy’s tips and timesaving strategies here.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2018

It’s tough to describe most implementations of personalized learning—especially to students and parents—in a way that conveys how it works on a day-to-day basis. We put them through round after round of team-building and self-discovery exercises and then give them their first project of the year: Synergy 101.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

They selected Hapara Highlights for its focus on visible personalized learning, which aligned with their goals.

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Edsurge

JULY 12, 2017

“We personalize learning all the time, we just don’t call it that,” says special education teacher Gina Tesoriero who has been teaching middle schoolers for over a decade. This story is part of an EdSurge Research series about how personalized learning is implemented in different school communities across the country.

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EdTechTeam

AUGUST 23, 2018

If you want to spice up this strategy a bit more, here are two suggestions: First, try adding some randomness to the mix by having the topics and genres assigned and matched up live in front of the students with a push of a button. They’ll have so much fun, they won’t even realize they are learning! Put students into groups and 2.

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eSchool News

MARCH 5, 2024

But while generative AI tools like ChatGPT have dominated conversations for the past year, there are many classroom tools that have quietly used AI to deliver personalized and targeted learning to students. Duolingo , a popular language-learning app, has literally been using AI for years.

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