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Characteristics of The 21st Century Classroom

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

When I embarked on my teaching journey back in 2003, the landscape of the classroom was quite different from what we see today. Educational software, ranging from language learning apps like Duolingo to math problem-solving platforms like Khan Academy, provides personalized learning experiences.

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?Report: Summit Schools Shares Results of 15 Years

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As of fall 2017, charter management organization Summit Public Schools (SPS), founded in 2003, serves 3,000 students across 100 schools in 30 states. The report shares Summit’s beliefs about youth, public education, and principles for school design rooted in the science of learning.

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This Texas college’s focus on mental health helps students work through trauma, stay on track

The Hechinger Report

The school has an on-campus clinic where students can receive therapy and join support groups — all free of charge. Hispanic psychologists make up the second-largest group at 7%, while only 3% are Black. There’s often a significant delay in between when mental health symptoms arise and when a person gets access to mental health care.”.

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Summit Schools to Spin Out Learning Program

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Summit Public Schools, which over the past four years has led the creation of the “Summit Learning Program” currently used by more than 380 schools around the U.S., Diane Tavenner, who opened the first Summit school in 2003 in Redwood City, Calif., Or almost. “I

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Why haven’t new federal rules unleashed more innovation in schools?

The Hechinger Report

His school and his state are trailblazers in personalized learning, a method that tailors instruction to students’ individual interests and learning speeds. Personalized learning advocates had big hopes for ESSA, enacted in 2015. About 20 other states sprinkled elements of personalized learning into their plans.

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One of the poorest cities in America was succeeding in an education turnaround. Is that now in peril?

The Hechinger Report

The group, made up of people with kids in the school system, functions as a communications channel between other parents and school principals and teachers. Of the students he knew, perhaps 10 percent managed relatively well in that period, and he was in that small group, he said. The parents are on their feet applauding.

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Implementing Innovation Strategies to Make School Districts More Equitable

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To recognize and work through this sort of situation, McNulty recommends avoiding the “polarity stereotyping” of traditionalists and progressives, in which each group views the other as representing policies they disfavor while portraying their own views as having no downside. From 2001-2003, he served as Vermont’s Education Commissioner.