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Million-Dollar Advice: The High Cost and Limited Return on Personalized Learning Consulting

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Follow education technology-reform projects, and you’ll find mixed academic outcomes and expensive consultants. In less than two years, between 2015 and 2017, the district paid more than $4.5 For some, the model is centered around adaptive technology that students use independently to drive their own learning.

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A Word of Caution Before Hiring a Director of Personalized Learning

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After five years of teaching, most recently as a technology teacher at an elementary school, I was recruited for a role outside of the classroom. In 2017, I began a new position as the director of personalized learning at a public charter school serving students in grades 7-12 in Phoenix. That isn’t good for buy-in.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Via Education Dive : “The Purdue-Kaplan Earthquake.” Task Force Seeks Comment on Higher-Ed Outcomes Reporting Standards.” Via The Hechinger Report : “How diplomas based on skill acquisition, not credits earned, could change education.” ” Fox. ” Contests and Awards.