Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

In October, we will share a guide highlighting the trends, insights and challenges we've learned about while profiling five key players in the world of school redesign. Mastery Design Collaborative (MDC) works with schools and districts that are focused on designing school models that personalize learning. Stay tuned!

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Personalized Learning Learning Education Elements Elementary 60

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The tool was supposed to enable teachers to tailor their instruction to individual students’ learning needs, but even the kids who had strong math skills weren’t doing well. Heidi Watson, a math coach at North Park Elementary in the city of Tremonton, said the training on ed tech tools is invaluable.

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Software Company Training STEM 116

The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2023

The second grader attends SpaRRk Academy, a virtual learning program for elementary students created in 2021 by the Rio Rancho School District in New Mexico. On days when SpaRRk Academy students are learning virtually, the classrooms are empty except for teachers and administrators, who come into the office just about every day.

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Elementary Online Learning Report Personalized Learning 91

The PL2C Blog

AUGUST 28, 2017

Charlotte, NC – Today The Friday Institute for Educational Innovation at NC State University’s College of Education and Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools (CMS) released an in-depth case study on CMS’ Personalized Learning (PL) efforts. While each school is unique, they share common goals in personalizing learning for their students.

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Ed Tech from the Ground Up

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

The iPad had been out for almost two years and the App Store was flooded with apps aimed at the pre-k students and those in the lower elementary grades. But very few apps in the speech language area were geared toward the upper elementary to high school age range. Yet, neither of us wanted to give up.

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Social Media iPad Elementary Conference 150

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

Today is day three of the 2013 Global Education Conference. Swift, International Baccalaureate Coordinator ED4ALL - Learning English Grammar by Writing - Mr. Paul Hartman From the USA to Africa: A Unique Primary STEM Global Partnership Emerges - Your Name and Title: Maria D.

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PLE Conference Advocacy Case Study 57

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

As students return to the classroom this fall — many for the first time since the beginning of the pandemic that upended their access to quality, in-person learning — we have an opportunity to enact standards to ensure that teachers’ instruction methods are effective and backed by science.

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Policies Assessment Outcomes Instructional Materials 145

eSchool News

JUNE 8, 2016

Study of grades 3-5 students showed improved math achievement with personalized learning approach. A research study from the Center for Education Policy Research (CEPR) at Harvard University demonstrates a link between an adaptive learning program and improvement in mathematics achievement for students in grades 3-5.

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Elementary Study Adaptive Learning Assessment 40

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

Today is day four of the 2013 Global Education Conference. During the conference opening sessions we brainstormed as set of grassroots global education projects that we could bring to our personal learning networks to try to get started. Hard to believe we''re almost at the end! How will you accomplish this? Instructor and Ph.

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PLE Personal Learning Network Conference Social Media 63

The Hechinger Report

MAY 1, 2023

This approach has learners and educators working together to ensure that students master what they need to learn, with opportunities to show what they know and can do in a variety of ways. Personalized learning helps each student receive support to reach their learning goals. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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Competency Based Learning Policies Personalized Learning Education 90

eSchool News

MARCH 20, 2023

Its print resources link seamlessly with technology to personalize supports and yield actionable insight for educators—reporting on individual student level growth through district-level growth. For more information, please see www.lwtears.com.

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Accessibility Learning EdTech Company 92

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

In fact, it seems as if all eyes are on Higuera and his classmates as they pioneer what the superintendent of Dysart, Gail Pletnick, calls “the future of education” — a personalized learning environment that puts students in control of what, when and how they learn, with teachers as their guides. Right now, most do not.

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Personalized Learning Classroom Data Learning 40

Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

Chad Collins has been with Spencer County Public Schools (KY) since 2013, first as a middle school social studies and ELA teacher, and currently as the campus Gifted and Talented Teacher for Spencer County Middle School (SCMS) as well as Spencer County Elementary School.

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Gamification Course Study Google 89

eSpark

APRIL 5, 2022

In 2011, Utica Community Schools decided to transform how students learn, starting with their first day of elementary school. With this funding and the new adoption of Common Core State Standards, UCS began exploring blended learning models. million for technological improvements.

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Blended Learning Case Study iPad Learning 52

eSpark

APRIL 5, 2022

In 2011, Utica Community Schools decided to transform how students learn, starting with their first day of elementary school. With this funding and the new adoption of Common Core State Standards, UCS began exploring blended learning models. million for technological improvements.

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Blended Learning Case Study iPad Learning 52

edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Discussions with team leaders led to a focus on four key words describing their work—equitable, intentional, streamlined, and focused—and two key strategies—building strong relationships with their students and each other, and providing deeply personal learning opportunities for all students. Recently, Ms.

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Tools Elementary Professional Learning Assessment 89

Edsurge

JULY 29, 2020

This has been a goal of Simon’s since she joined Long Beach Unified in fall 2013. In elementary school, frequent absences are linked to a higher likelihood of dropout—even if attendance improves over time. In addition to causing learning gaps, absenteeism also has budget implications. But it has proven elusive.

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Strategy Learning Data Dropout 191

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 28, 2022

Changes began in 2013, when Miyashiro, the superintendent, joined the district and decided to invest in Chromebooks for all students — a decision that gave the district a huge leg up seven years later during the pandemic.

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Report Case Study Chromebook Elementary 106

The Hechinger Report

MAY 6, 2019

Before elementary school, the boy was diagnosed with autism, ADHD and anxiety, and in kindergarten he was placed in a small, self-contained class for kids with disabilities. Before kindergarten, Jennifer Choi’s son was denied special education services despite a diagnosis of ADHD. Rachel Blustain for The Hechinger Report.

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Advocacy Elementary Training Report 111

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

Superintendent Rico Munn made mental health a priority when he came to Aurora Public Schools in 2013. Sofia Kent, the school social worker at Montview Elementary School, saidwhen the topic of mental health is presented in a very open, nonjudgmental manner it makes a big difference. “ The new focus has paid off.

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Report Training Elementary Survey 136

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Audrianna Lesieur, age 11, smiles after demonstrating the strength of “Confidence” with encouragement from classmate William Maestas as her teacher Val Seamons moves on to assist Billy Sabo at Lake Canyon Elementary School. They’re among the 10 “talent themes,” or strengths, used to underpin learning in the school district here.

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Learning Elementary Report Personalized Learning 85

Edsurge

MAY 22, 2017

As the largest school district in Rhode Island, Providence Public Schools makes up 25% of the state’s entire elementary and secondary student population. Nearly 1,900 teaching and learning staff are employed in 42 schools, each equipped with various types of technology tools (42 in all).

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Case Study Data Learning Mobility 99

MIND Research Institute

MARCH 5, 2021

This represents a new high water mark in a seven-year progression towards the vital practice of holding education programs and school districts using state funds accountable for achieving student learning impacts. ST Math in Utah , where over 21% of elementary schools use the program. What does the report say about K-12 math software?

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Program Evaluation STEM Analysis Software 52

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

In May 2021, Think College Now elementary students sit in class after returning to in-person learning. Islas, a staff member at Think College Now, a public elementary school in Oakland, with her daughter, Jesimiel Merida-Islas, who received a laptop and hot spot after months of sharing a computer with her mother.

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Digital Divide Broadband Chromebook Survey 109

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2021

The program, launched in 2013, isn’t new. “If the students are busy with the investigation, which has got scientist-led videos and interactives and notebooks, it’s all turnkey,” Larson added.

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Common Core Meeting Trends Data 125

User Generated Education

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Now, teachers and students can choose from an ever-expanding cornucopia of digital tools that enable a new level of collaboration, analysis, and presentations (Schachter, 2013, para. Learning Environment. Retrieved from https://usergeneratededucation.wordpress.com/2013/06/09/education-3-0-altering-round-peg-in-round-hole-education/.

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Education Learning Resources Tools 268

The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

Many charter networks here, including Crescent City Schools, Firstline, ReNEW, and KIPP, have embraced an educational philosophy known as “personalized learning.”. Though personalized learning doesn’t have to include technology, many New Orleans charters have put computers at the center of their personalized learning efforts.

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Personalized Learning Software Data Report 97

EdTech Magazine

APRIL 29, 2018

If you’d like to check out the Must-Read IT blogs from previous years, view our lists from 2017 , 2016 , 2015 , 2014 and 2013. The organization’s blog offers useful insights and advice on classroom technologies, digital citizenship, personalized learning and more. Keller ISD Digital Learning Blog. iste | Read the blog.

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Technology Twitter Digital Learning Tools 359

Edsurge

APRIL 25, 2018

In July 2013 by a unanimous vote, the Board of Trustees for McComb School District in Mississippi appointed me as superintendent of schools. In August 2015, we began making changes to the grading practices at our pilot school, Summit Elementary School, which serves as a prototype for other school in the district.

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System How To Assessment Meeting 107

The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

That’s vastly better than assigning students homework that doesn’t provide feedback and resembles busy work, be it photocopied word searches in the elementary grades or repetitive math worksheets across the school years. Those dull, outdated assignments don’t further learning goals and only serve to disengage students.

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Tools Laptops Analysis Broadband 79

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

When the boys’ no-fee private school reopened to in-person learning more quickly than Gaddie thought was safe, she enrolled them in the tribally controlled public school she’d gone to as a child. You learn better.”. They’re average.”. If you know your culture, if you know where you come from, you’re stronger,” she said.

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Facebook Groups Data Survey 136

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2016

Schools are often looking at instructional uses,” said Thomas Arnett, a research fellow at the Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation and author of a paper chronicling the efforts of these two organizations to co-develop classroom technology to support personalized learning. Sign up for our Blended Learning newsletter.

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Technology Blended Learning iPad Advocacy 40

Education Superhighway

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

million students across the nation who lack access to the minimum connectivity required for digital learning. Since 2013, 49 governors have led the effort that has connected an estimated 40.7 million teachers in more than 81,000 schools have the Internet access they need for digital learning. .” million students and 2.6

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Broadband E-rate Digital Divide Report 40

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 21, 2020

The version of the tool launched this fall focused on late elementary and middle school math, with new topics planned for the future. But based on initial data from a much smaller pilot in Long Beach, California, in 2017-18 and another in 33 tiny Idaho districts in 2013-14, he was optimistic.

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Khan Academy Classroom Training Software 132

edWeb.net

JUNE 16, 2017

Rhonda Schroeder, EdD, Principal, Arthur Elementary School, Oklahoma City, OK, shared the story of how Arthur Elementary School transitioned from having one computer per classroom to having a 1:1 iPad program. Arthur Elementary has also established goals for out-of-school access. She earned a B.S.

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Equity of Access Accessibility Elementary Instructional Materials 40

Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2017

“She goes to school, feels uncertain about who she is, tryin’ to hide behind the curtain so she lashes out, out of fear of bein’ known, inside and out.” These raw lines open the music video “ Jagged ,” written, directed and starred in by elementary school students. She founded QueenHype in 2013, and now serves as the CEO.

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Meeting Elementary Video System 107

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2019

When Destiny Reyes started elementary school, she felt highly motivated. Like most young children, she liked learning new things, and she excelled at school. Ninth graders who have spent their whole life being told what to learn, some of them don’t even know what they’re interested in because they haven’t been given the opportunity.”.

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How To Learning Report Survey 112