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League of Innovative Schools Members Named 2016 “Leaders to Learn From”

Digital Promise

Members of the Digital Promise League of Innovative Schools serve as examples of how forward-thinking leadership can transform learning. Through its mPower Piedmont initiative , which began in 2009, students receive a laptop with school and home Internet access. In Vancouver, Wash., Congratulations again to these educators!

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League of Innovative Schools Members Named 2016 “Leaders to Learn From”

Digital Promise

Members of the Digital Promise League of Innovative Schools serve as examples of how forward-thinking leadership can transform learning. Through its mPower Piedmont initiative , which began in 2009, students receive a laptop with school and home Internet access. Sara is the Director of the Digital Promise League of Innovative Schools.

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[Guest Post] The Future of Learning is Now

Education Elements

The Jaquelin Hume Foundation’s mission is to accelerate the implementation of high quality blended/personalized learning in America’s schools. However, with the publication of “Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns,” the conversations changed and the idea began to gain traction.

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Innovative School District Seeks Middle School Science and Social Studies Apps

Digital Promise

WHAT: Piedmont Middle School is seeking to pilot digital learning programs that support competency-based learning in science and social studies. The district is working with Digital Promise to conduct an effective learning technology pilot this spring, from product selection to purchase decision. Let us know or.

Study 120
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Higher Ed’s Credit Transfer System Is Broken. Here’s a Better Way.

Edsurge

From 2004 to 2009, transfer students on average lost 43 percent of their credits—basically a semester’s worth. In an education world driven more by inputs than learning outcomes, it’s hard to prove the case one way or the other. In this system, learners would own their records and bring independent proof of their learning.

System 101
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Vermont’s ‘all over the map’ effort to switch schools to proficiency-based learning

The Hechinger Report

. — Remi Savard is one of the last students at Montpelier High School who remembers what class was like before the school switched to a proficiency-based model three years ago. “If Now, Savard says, learning targets are clearer, and there’s more opportunity to truly understand the material. It’s better than it was.”. It’s gone.”.

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In Utah, personalizing learning by focusing on relationships

The Hechinger Report

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. The high school graduation rate in Utah’s Juab School District was 78 percent in 2009. Subscribe today!