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A Year in Review 15-16

The Thinking Stick

From August when we started training 150ish teachers in Cohort 1, to deploying over 8000 Chromebooks to students 6-12 grade in October and November. Full disclosure our dropout rate is roughly 15%. I wrote last year about the 5 year contract we signed with Marysville School District and the work the team and I would be doing there.

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The messy reality of personalized learning

The Hechinger Report

Teachers project lesson plans onto interactive screens, and little hands reach for black Chromebook laptops, which are stacked like cafeteria trays in a large box called a Chromecart. The ratio of children to Chromebooks, in grades three through five, is one to one. Yet, inside Isaac Paine, tech abounds. The George W.