A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 8, 2023

One of the best and most gratifying aspects of my job is getting into classrooms and providing feedback to leaders, who, in turn, help their teachers grow. Over the years, the state of Utah has provided me with a plethora of opportunities to work with schools on Personalized Competency-Based Learning ( PCBL ). An article by Y.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 4, 2024

When I embarked on my teaching journey back in 2003, the landscape of the classroom was quite different from what we see today. As I ponder these changes, I find it both fascinating and essential to articulate the characteristics that now define a modern classroom. And guess what?

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Doug Levin

APRIL 21, 2016

FY 2003 $700,500,000. Schools today offer a greater level of technology infrastructure than just a few years ago, and there is no longer a significant need for a State formula grant program targeted specifically on (and limited to) the effective integration of technology into schools and classrooms.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2017

As recently as 1997, only 27 percent of America’s K-12 school had internet access—a number that skyrocketed to 92 percent by 2003. But visions of a world where every teacher and every student had an internet-connected device, and every student would get personalized assessments for learning, were still just that—visions.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2017

Sixteen-year-olds share classrooms with 20-somethings, students earn diplomas at their own pace and if anyone has a problem with a peer, they’re encouraged to talk about it like adults. After giving birth to her son in 2011, Burgos dropped out of her old school when counselors told her that she didn’t have enough credits to pass ninth grade.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2019

The amount of time they’ve spent in the classroom (“seat time”) doesn’t matter, nor does the number of credits they’ve accumulated. I had never seen kids so in charge of their learning.”. Related: What if personalized learning was less about me and more about us? In 2003, the Gates Foundation gave RISC $5.8

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

In 2003, before the existence of YouTube, she founded ProjectExplorer.org, a free multimedia website designed to educate primary and secondary school students about global issues and world cultures and histories. A replica of his classroom was installed in the US Botanic Gardens in Washington, DC. airing on Discovery in 2020.)

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