Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2018

In July of 2015, the district paid more than $400,000 for alignment, strategy and professional services from Education Elements, a for-profit personalized learning consultant, according to receipts obtained by EdSurge from the district. In less than two years, between 2015 and 2017, the district paid more than $4.5

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Personalized Learning Education Elements Learning Outcomes 124

The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Teacher professional development needs to be practical, fit your schedule, and improve your classroom — and I’ve found professional development from Advancement Courses that does just that! Let's dive into how this looks for my personal PD and what I learned. Content-Focused with Active Learning.

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edWeb.net

MAY 23, 2019

During the edWebinar, “ Learning in the 21st Century: What Teachers Think Matters,” the presenters talked about the science of individuality, how they’re using the research to help developers create products to meet these individual needs, and examples that show how the Learner Variability Project can work in the classroom.

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Personalized Learning Learning Strategy Policies 46

Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2017

Change has proven rewarding at CICS West Belden , a high-performing K-8 charter school in Chicago, which recently shifted to a personalized learning model. For CICS West Belden, the “next level” was shifting to a personalized learning model, moving students towards competency-based education.

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Personalized Learning Learning Data Meeting 60

Digital Promise

OCTOBER 25, 2017

This hands-on, authentic process re-establishes learners as active contributors of their learning environment by providing true agency through the connection of interest with impact. With very little first-hand experience with personalized learning, many teachers and education administrators have difficulty fathoming its power.

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Policies Personalized Learning Assessment Professional Learning 185

Edsurge

MARCH 7, 2017

When they wrote the LAB charter in 2013, Mote and Tucker designed a model that included college-prep academic rigor alongside life and leadership skills, particularly entrepreneurial learning. Since the school’s launch in 2014, their vision has come to life and the school has grown to serve 479 students in grades 6-8.

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LMS Classroom Assessment Robotics 106

Edsurge

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Funded in 2014 with $100 million from the Gates Foundation and the Carnegie Corporation, inBloom intended to collect massive amounts of personally identifiable student data and use it to “personalize” learning to each student. The story of inBloom is a cautionary tale. Will his or her data be sold? I agree with them. .

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Technology Industry Software Data 145

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 96

Digital Promise

AUGUST 11, 2017

Take a look below at our proposed sessions, and click each link to vote now through August 25, 2017. Applying Research to Truly Personalize Learning. One critical aspect of personalized learning is too often missing: the use of learning sciences research to best understand and reach each learner.

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Digital Divide iPad EdTech Competency Based Learning 183

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 3, 2024

because teaching is no longer an isolated profession; it’s a dynamic and interconnected field requiring teachers to work collaboratively and build expansive professional and personal learning networks. Recent research reinforces this perspective. Adaptive teachers, as Madda et al. 57, cited in Vaughn, 2015, p. Madda et al.,

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Study Outcomes Elementary Data 121

Edsurge

JULY 6, 2020

In 2017, organizers got something extra in their “Edcamp in a Box,” as they were called: a maker kit, so that participants could partake in hands-on activities as part of the experience. “We We were talking on Twitter about having an in-person meeting,” says Hadley Fergusion, who helped organize the inaugural event.

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Edcamps Training Blended Learning Conference 157

Doug Levin

APRIL 21, 2016

Dear Colleague Letter: Resource Comparability , which emphases technology-related equity issues (October 2014). Districts seeking funds to integrate technology into teaching and learning can use other Federal program funds such as Improving Teacher Quality State Grants and Title I Grants to Local Educational Agencies.”

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Policies Technology Program Evaluation Education 150

Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts

MARCH 4, 2019

Here are a few more resources to help understand that journey the school has been on, already shared on my blog: Creating the time and space for self-directed, personalized, inquiry learning. Learning and Failure. Relevance Amplifies Learning. Transforming Our Classrooms – Ignite Presentation.

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Secondary Course Digital Learning Digital Citizenship 113

techlearning

AUGUST 15, 2018

For nearly 50 years, our team has been relentlessly focused on making classrooms better places for teachers and students,” said Rob Waldron, CEO of Curriculum Associates. billion in 2017, accounting for 664,095 jobs over the past three years. 5000 is ranked according to percentage revenue growth when comparing 2014 and 2018.

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Company Industry Instructional Materials Blended Learning 40

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

As the 2014 competition finalist Shiv Gaglani, cofounder of Osmosis, recently shared, “The impact Milken-Penn had on our business was significant. Mobile internet access in homes has mushroomed from 9 percent in 2010 to 92 percent in 2017. And AI is making personalized learning a reality at scale.

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EdTech Education Mobility Company 125

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2019

Teacher stress is growing, experts say, pushing educators out of classrooms and hurting learning. Teaching ranks among the most stressful professions, according to Gallup research from 2014, in which about half of teachers reported high daily stress at work, tying medical professionals for the most-stressful jobs.

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Training Elementary Report Exercises 111

techlearning

MAY 24, 2018

In 2017, Curriculum Associates placed 48th on the list. Only those firms with a headquarters in Massachusetts and revenue of at least $500,000 in 2014 and $1 million in 2017 were considered. Companies that did not show growth from 2016 to 2017 were excluded. NORTH BILLERICA, Mass.,

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Company Industry Instructional Materials Blended Learning 40

Edsurge

OCTOBER 12, 2017

So in spring of 2014, when the district proposed implementing a 1:1 technology initiative that would help teachers and students transition to a personalized learning model, there was some resistance from families and the board rejected the proposal. Several of our students were named U.S. Presidential Scholars.

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Elementary Personalized Learning Comparison Technology 84

Edsurge

JUNE 26, 2018

And in 2017 , they teamed up for Computer Science Education Week Hour of Code to teach kids “basic programming concepts by casting them as veterinarians alongside Barbie,” per a Tynker announcement. In a 2014 Slate article, she wrote that a book Mattel put out that linked Barbie to computer science missed the mark.

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Company Robotics Course EdTech 71

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. Keeler has more than 50 tips for Google Classroom under her belt, with an e-book on that series in progress. Keller ISD Digital Learning Blog. Shake Up Learning. Alice Keeler. Tim Stahmer.

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Technology Twitter Digital Learning Tools 374

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2021

. — On a morning this fall at Washington Elementary, a young boy, sitting at a table with five of his peers, held a tablet while he built a digital snowman — a cool proposition given the 85-degree heat just outside his air-conditioned classroom. Teachers rarely stand at the front of the classroom.

Online Learning 127

Online Learning How To Competency Based Learning Learning 127

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 18, 2018

Miles Hooper, the 26-year-old manager of Vermont’s largest goat farm, remembers what it’s like to be 16 and not want to be in a classroom. It’s all part of a statewide push to “personalize” learning, giving students more of a say over what — and where — they study. Photo: Kelly Field for the Hechinger Report. RANDOLPH, Vt.

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Report Personalized Learning Dropout Course 99

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2018

With textbooks open, they watched a lecture about Newton’s Laws on a giant screen, while their classroom teacher simultaneously offered examples of those laws in action. When the lecture ended, they had yet another to chance to learn: A physics video chat with their tutor, a sophomore physics major at Yale. compared to a 2.84

Online Learning 70

Online Learning Learning Course Blended Learning 70

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

If kids designed high schools, the classrooms would be full of computer screens, books, games and holograms — and there would be no tests. School leaders wanted to include their input as they plan the opening of a new high school in 2017 (check out the story here ). Students attend classes at Brooklyn LAB school Submitted photo.

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Blended Learning Robotics Report Personalized Learning 40

edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

A critical topic for schools, communities, and most importantly, our students, is what teachers do in the classroom to nurture ALL students, create a sense of belonging, and keep educational standards high. We not only have to understand that we can have personal biases, but that there are biases ingrained in the system.

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Strategy Policies Advocacy Secondary 40

MIND Research Institute

JUNE 18, 2019

This unique, patented learning system provides equitable access to deep conceptual learning for all students—even gifted ones. Between 2014 and 2016, STAAR math scores among gifted students who used ST Math increased from 91% meeting standards to over 98%. In fact, a recent. analysis of ST Math students in Texas.

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Analysis Personalized Learning Student Engagement Meeting 83

The Principal of Change

DECEMBER 14, 2017

And then we wonder why things look the same in the classroom. One of the things that I truly appreciate is all of the amazing educators on Twitter sharing glimpses into their classrooms and professional learning days, making great things happen as the norm in their schools, not the exception. But they do happen way too much.

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MOOC Professional Learning Twitter Examples 52

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 4, 2023

Twice a week Ricky Carmona, 16, leaves his La Verne home to attend school in makeshift classrooms a few doors down from the Boot Barn at a nearby strip mall. In 2014, a state law prohibited districts from forcing students to transfer if they were recommended for expulsion but won their expulsion hearing.

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Data Report Policies Analysis 139

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2021

On a shelf in her Chicago classroom, third grader Arianna has a thick binder that details her achievements, strengths and goals as a student, along with some revealing information about her personality. Personalized learning has, in recent years, become one of the most talked-about trends in education.

Personalized Learning 145

Personalized Learning Education Learning Elementary 145

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

In May 2021, Think College Now elementary students sit in class after returning to in-person learning. Jordan Mickens, who spent his first year as a teacher at Castlemont High School in 2014, said he vividly remembers the technology divide his students faced compared with those in the wealthy areas surrounding Oakland.

Digital Divide 109

Digital Divide Broadband Chromebook Survey 109

Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2017

program at Carnegie Mellon University to create LightSide Labs, which used technology to improve classroom writing. In 2014, Turnitin acquired LightSide with a mandate to help shift Turnitin’s focus from academic integrity tools to those that emphasize student writing. These are all things that are foreign in a lot of classrooms.

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Company Technology Study EdTech 60

Doug Levin

MARCH 19, 2017

Doug Levin (@douglevin) March 17, 2017. Otherwise, here’s what caught my eye the week of March 13, 2017 – news, tools, and reports about education, public policy, technology, and innovation – including a little bit about why. A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 11 Edition).

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 21, 2019

Under a set of new standards adopted by the Vermont State Board of Education in 2014 , the class of 2020 will be eligible for graduation when they’ve demonstrated “evidence of proficiency” in the curriculum. On the board, teacher Whitney Machnik had written the learning targets for the day. percent between 2009 and 2017.

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Learning System Report Outcomes 87

MindShift

MARCH 6, 2018

With textbooks open, they watched a lecture about Newton’s Laws on a giant screen, while their classroom teacher simultaneously offered examples of those laws in action. When the lecture ended, they had yet another to chance to learn: A physics video chat with their tutor, a sophomore physics major at Yale.

Online Learning 31

Online Learning Learning Course Report 31

MindShift

JANUARY 26, 2021

On a shelf in her Chicago classroom, third grader Arianna has a thick binder that details her achievements, strengths and goals as a student, along with some revealing information about her personality. Personalized learning has, in recent years, become one of the most talked-about trends in education.

Personalized Learning 45

Personalized Learning Education Learning Training 45

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 16, 2018

In a darkened classroom in Essex Technical High School, Anna Maria Miller takes careful notes while watching a subtitled video sampling from Rwanda’s infamous “hate radio,” which helped fuel the genocide of the minority Tutsi population in 1994. HATHORNE, Mass. — That’s the trade-off students have to make to come here,” O’Toole said.

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Study Training Report Industry 81

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 4, 2018

percent in 2017. Barile’s class is a prime example of how Revere High School uses “student-centered learning” to reach a highly diverse student body. Finally, the approach breaks from traditional classrooms where students are expected to sit and listen. It motivates kids and brings a lot of enthusiasm into the classroom.”.

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E-rate Report Assessment Study 111