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Teacher shortages bring to mind the saying ‘necessity is the mother of invention’

eSchool News

Instead, schools ought to be taking these opportunities to do what Heather Staker and I described in Blended —offering a la carte online courses with great digital curriculum mixed with elements of the Flex or Individual Rotation models of blended learning that match the path and pace of each individual’s students’ learning needs.

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

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During visits to two schools in Baltimore County Public Schools (BCPS), I was struck by how innovating where the alternative for students is nothing at all is still relevant, years after we wrote about the idea in “ Disrupting Class ” in 2008. The school’s graduating class this summer had an 89.8