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Capture the Opportunity: Steps to Redesign School-Level Systems for Equity

Education Elements

At the age of five, my shyness was taken for lack of understanding and I was tested for English as a Second Language (ESL). At eight, I was pushed into gifted math and made to feel defeated and stupid. At twelve, I was told I could not “handle” taking a foreign language, despite being in an advanced English class.

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Redesigning for an Anti-Racist Classroom Series: #2 Discipline Policy

Education Elements

As my colleagues wrote in Capture the Opportunity: Steps to Redesign School-Level Systems for Equity : As my colleagues wrote in Capture the Opportunity: Steps to Redesign School-Level Systems for Equity :

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The Power of Networks in Education Innovation

Digital Promise

To capture the vital lessons and stories of the EdClusters work, we’ve published a compendium of learnings from the movement. Be intentional about equity. Advancing equity means designing and redesigning for it with intention through ongoing commitment. Lessons learned include: Network weaving activities are essential.

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To Truly Measure Student Growth, Learning Experiences Must Be Personalized

Edsurge

Magnet Elementary School , is excited about the prospect of redesigning traditional approaches to assessment and instruction. It’s a good opportunity to evaluate and examine the metrics to see if they make sense for all of our learners and consider how we can work to personalize learning for the individual, rather than the average.

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65 predictions about edtech trends in 2024

eSchool News

Here’s what they had to say: Text-based AI interfaces provide an opportunity to help close the digital divide…and avoid an impending AI divide. As we wave farewell to 2023 , we’re looking ahead to edtech trends in 2024 with optimism for education as a whole. This begs the question: What’s next for education? Today, over 2.9

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What Do We Lose By Measuring ‘Average’ In Education?

MindShift

I hope I have captured just how incredible a pilot Killer C is. There is an important lesson here about the nature of opportunity. This is the lesson of Kim Campbell: fit creates opportunity. This is not how we usually think about equal opportunity. Copyright ©2016 by L.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. I think it is worthwhile, as the decade draws to a close, to review those stories and to see how much (or how little) things have changed. Good for you. But that’s not my job. with Pigeons.

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