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Self-Regulation in the Personalized Classroom

A Principal's Reflections

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 ). In Shawn Berry’s 8th-grade math class, I observed students writing down individual learning goals for the lesson based on unpacked standards in the form of learning targets.

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What is Mastery Learning and How Do You Implement It Effectively?

The CoolCatTeacher

Mastery learning (also called competency-based learning) is being used in some classes and schools. Jon Bergmann, author of the Mastery Learning Handbook talks about how he uses mastery learning in his chemistry and physics classrooms. Dell Black Friday and Year Long Education Deals. Stream by clicking here.

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When to Teach Online Classes Live and When to Let Students Learn on Demand

Edsurge

“Those weekly face-to-face sessions are as much about seeing people’s faces—seeing how tired they look, seeing how engaged they are in the material, seeing all of those kinds of things, and having that back and forth—as it is learning new content together,” she noted. Department of Education.

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How to do online learning well? A California district has some answers.

The Hechinger Report

Kids are helped along by access to take-home devices and individualized learning plans that allow them to progress through class material at their own speed. While the pandemic still took its toll, adapting to online learning was smoother in Lindsay due to its preexisting infrastructure and history of adaptation.

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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.

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Nonprofit University Buys For-Profit College For Its Tech Platform

Edsurge

But it was not initially clear what technology platform UniversityNow had left to sell, since in 2015 the company sold its competency-based learning platform to Penn Foster Education Group. The board has been great at investing in new technologies.” Penn Foster’s version of the license focuses on high school,” he says.

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Impact Investing, Not Whitewashing: How Lumina’s Venture Arm Works

Edsurge

Many investors, foundations and even private equity firms have started so-called impact investment funds with a mission to support companies involved in teaching and learning. We started doing impact investing back in 2010 through our fund investment strategy and invested in a couple fund managers.

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