Graphite Blog

JULY 3, 2015

Great for informal learning, student-directed, and after-school settings. ELA AND ELL A+ Tools for K-5 Common Core Reading Comprehension. Learn how to help your students boost their reading skills with resources like Lightsail, ReadWorks, and StudySync. MATH Awesome Digital Tools for K-8 Common Core Math.

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Shake Up Learning

MARCH 8, 2022

With the emergence of Common Core and very few resources available to align with these new standards, teachers began utilizing OER once again. There was an influx of districts assigning teachers or instructional coaches to compile OER options that reflected the needs of common core.

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My Island View

DECEMBER 7, 2016

The flipped classroom, maker movement, project-based learning, blended learning, student centered learning, hour of code, collaboration, direct instruction, and lecture, there are passionate teacher advocates supporting each of these methods as the best way for kids to learn. Teach adults as adults.

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My Island View

DECEMBER 7, 2016

The flipped classroom, maker movement, project-based learning, blended learning, student centered learning, hour of code, collaboration, direct instruction, and lecture, there are passionate teacher advocates supporting each of these methods as the best way for kids to learn. Teach adults as adults.

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My Island View

DECEMBER 7, 2016

The flipped classroom, maker movement, project-based learning, blended learning, student centered learning, hour of code, collaboration, direct instruction, and lecture, there are passionate teacher advocates supporting each of these methods as the best way for kids to learn. Teach adults as adults.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

In November 2015, middle-school students from Westchester County, New York, found themselves on a windswept field in Southern Sudan mingling with a crowd of refugees fleeing civil war. Sign up for our newsletter to get a weekly update on blended learning. Photo courtesy Global Nomads Group.

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eSpark

JANUARY 5, 2016

On December 10, 2015, President Obama signed the Every Student Succeeds Act, a bipartisan bill designed to address the shortcomings of No Child Left Behind. “ Under ESSA, states are not required to adhere to Common Core Standards, but the act says that state-determined standards must prepare all students for postsecondary success.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2018

What does personalized learning mean to the perennial tug-of-war over content — in higher education’s “great books” debate over whether students should absorb the Western canon or study what they want, and, at the K-12 level, over the Common Core? Is sameness the key to equal opportunity? What can that look like?

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

Prior to the 2014-2015 school year, teachers also had access to Khan Academy, where math content is organized by grade level. During the start of the 2015-2016 school year, KIPP Bay Area began implementing the. Eureka Math curriculum while adopting the Common Core standards.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JUNE 7, 2015

Be on the lookout for future posts entitled the ABC’s of PBL and Deeper Learning and also 40 great education sites to discover in 2015. STEM, 21st century learning, and technology integration, please sign up for 21centuryedtech by email or RSS. I am almost booked through August and fall dates for 2015 are now over half full.

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Marketplace K-12

JANUARY 21, 2016

” New school accountability measures in England and Wales caused a steep drop in vocational course-taking, from 700,000 enrollments in 2012 to 320,000 in 2015. For instance, Pearson recently landed an potentially huge contract last year (upheld after a legal challenge) to deliver common-core tests to PARCC states.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 20, 2015

April 20th - May 4th, 2015 Two Week Calendar | Learning Revolution Events | Learning Revolution Blog | Partner Spotlight To subscribe to this newsletter, please sign up at LearningRevolution.com. Please share this newsletter with your friends and colleagues! Two Week Calendar Monday, April 20th at 8pm TL News Night LIVE!

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TeachThought - Learn better.

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

BYOD is often seen as a way of solving budget concerns while increasing the authenticity of learning experiences , while critics point to the problems BYOD can cause for district IT, privacy concerns, and more. Blended Learning. Blended learning is a learning model that combines digital and face-to-face learning experiences.

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MindShift

AUGUST 13, 2015

But while blended learning — a mix of teacher-led and computerized instruction — is proliferating across the country, schools that wholeheartedly embrace games-based learning remain rare. Etai Kurtzman, 12, at Luna Park in Coney Island in Brooklyn, NY May 28, 2015. It’s not competitive,” he said.

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Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

MARCH 10, 2020

This is something not to be glossed over; through communication and strategic planning, your journey to a CBE system should make clear how competency-based learning is not "one more thing on your plate" but instead becomes the plate where personalized learning, PBL, blended learning and other initiatives smoothly "sit" on and build toward.)

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2017

In 2015, the Idaho state legislature approved 19 incubator programs to explore the practice inside its schools. Sign up for our Blended Learning newsletter. Under the federal education bill passed in 2015, states are permitted to forgo single end-of-year subject tests and use more nuanced measures instead.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

Summit’s Basecamp is far from the only personalized-learning effort out there, but it’s among the most ambitious. Nineteen pilot schools participated in 2015; this year, the number skyrocketed, with 113 more joining the Basecamp ranks. Personalized learning is easy to bastardize. Photo: Chris Berdik.

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Graphite Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2016

You can filter through collections by grade level, Lexile level, theme, genre, literary device, and even Common Core State Standards addressed. Redbird Advanced Learning Mathematics is a digital curriculum platform for in-class or blended-learning use that incorporates robust, research-based adaptive technology.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2019

Back when she arrived in Tulsa from Rhode Island in 2015, she was the last person local teachers would have imagined as their standard bearer. From 2009 to 2015, Gist embarked on an ambitious mission to reform education in a state tiny enough to make it a perfect petri dish for quick and dramatic change.

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