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K–12 Departments Work Collaboratively to Support New Pedagogies

EdTech Magazine

Let’s start with what personalized learning is — or should be — and go from there. Indeed, the concept has been conflated with other educational and ­instructional approaches that integrate technology : adaptive learning, blended ­learning , ­competency-based learning and differentiated learning, to name just a few.

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

The Hechinger Report

The district convened a series of meetings with teachers, school leaders, parents, city officials and community members to discuss what kind of educational system the community needed. Related: Why a high-performing district is changing everything with competency-based learning.

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Goodbye ABCs: How One State is Moving Beyond Grade Levels and Graded Assessments

Edsurge

The program follows six key tenets: project-based learning, learner agency, whole person development, blended learning and competency-based assessment. At Pittsford elementary, she says, there are “a higher number of students who are meeting their projected growth.”

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What a Summer Prototype Taught Us About Measuring Quality in an Unbundled Education System

Edsurge

In the summer of 2016, a community of educators, research design partners, and over 150 teens and young adults in Colorado engaged in a bold experiment to rethink how quality and impact might be measured in a modernized system of learning. In this relatively small, short-cycle prototype, the lessons we learned were significant.

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

The Hechinger Report

With more college students now considered nontraditional than traditional, higher education institutions have been scrambling to shift their models to better meet their needs. Many have turned to competency-based education, known as CBE, to reach the increasingly important returning adult learner. Educational Terms 101.