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Preparing Teaching Candidates for Blended and Online Environments

Fractus Learning

At Lenoir-Rhyne University in Hickory, North Carolina, faculty in the School of Education have developed pathways to help teaching candidates gain experience exploring, evaluating, and applying methods for online and blended instruction. These courses include blended methods and technologies for blended learning environments.

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Implementing Innovation Strategies to Make School Districts More Equitable

edWeb.net

Ray is a past president of the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) and author of It’s Not Us Against Them: Creating the Schools We Need , published in 2009 by the International Center. An educator since 1973, Ray has been a teacher, vice principal, principal, and superintendent.

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Colorado hybrid school taps into personalized learning

eSchool News

And, the high school completion rate for secondary classes as well as college-credit bearing courses increased as well through PGA’s concurrent enrollment program with local colleges.

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Teaching isn’t Rocket Science – It’s Way More Complex

The CoolCatTeacher

After teaching chemistry, physics, and computer science, I became an administrator for the next 30 years with experience at the secondary, central office, and elementary levels. After her death in March of 2009 I decided to see how I could use my expertise to help busy educators and parents hone their skills and knowledge.

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Personalized learning: How kids are getting into college by mastering their skills

The Hechinger Report

Students work on individual projects in the blended-learning classroom of Jessica Anderson, in Deer Lodge, Montana. A student-centered personalized-learning model known as competency education has gained traction over the past five years as states have developed policies to promote its adoption in both elementary and secondary schools.

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India tries coding camps, craft centers and all-girls schools to fight illiteracy

The Hechinger Report

And despite India’s push to guarantee a good education to all children between the ages of 6 and 14 under the country’s Right to Education Act of 2009, most students will not finish school. Related: The promise, potential and pitfalls of blended learning in India. They get their periods and stay home for a week and fall behind.

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What's on the Horizon (Still, Again, Always) for Ed-Tech

Hack Education

“the Internet of Things”) have been on the horizon since 2009. Blended Learning Designs. Collaborative Learning. Growing Focus on Measuring Learning. Redesigning Learning Spaces. “Smart objects” (a.k.a. Three to Five Years. Five or More Years. Advancing Cultures of Innovation.