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What Makes Professional Development Work?

edWeb.net

Professional development defined as one-hit wonders with hour-long speaker presentations and all-day workshops leaves teachers unequipped to implement best practices and personalized learning opportunities for their students. This edWeb broadcast was sponsored by 2gnoMe. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING.

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

The Hechinger Report

There’s also little evidence that personalized learning improves student learning, in part because so many different approaches are used. Related: What lessons does special education hold for personalized learning? Test scores leaped in Lindsay Unified after the district implemented competency-based learning.

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What do at-risk students, English language learners and adult college students have in common?

The Hechinger Report

Many administrators at public schools say they are using strategies to “personalizelearning, giving students the chance to tackle coursework at their own pace or have a greater say in what they study. And that, these advocates say, is the real goal for personalized learning. — Tara García Mathewson.

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2017’s Ho-Hum, Unremarkable, But Too-Often Ignored Lessons in Education Technology

Edsurge

As someone who has taught high school history, led a school district, and researched the history of school reform along with the use of educational technologies over the past half-century, I found little that startled me in 2017 (with the exception for one event noted below).

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Dramatic DeVos nomination begs question: Can she be an effective Ed Secretary?

The Hechinger Report

Betsy DeVos, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to be the next Secretary of Education, testifies during her confirmation hearing before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill January 17, 2017 in Washington, DC. Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images.