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

The Hechinger Report

. — 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. Credit: Charlotte West for The Hechinger Report. Ushering in a new model.

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OPINION: Four effective strategies for parents who are now homeschooling their children

The Hechinger Report

Friday, March 20, 2020, 7:00 a.m. — For all parents, learning how to find an appropriate work-family balance is of paramount importance. For years, we have made it our mission to help educators reimagine their schools and classrooms with a model known as competency-based learning. Total age range: 5 to 15.

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Does the future of schooling look like Candy Land?

The Hechinger Report

Teachers used those colorful pathways in a competency-based system to track what each student had learned — and hadn’t learned — in real time. Credit: Nancy Walser for The Hechinger Report. Credit: Nancy Walser for The Hechinger Report. Credit: Nancy Walser for The Hechinger Report.

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95 Phonics Core Program® Earns Product Certification from Digital Promise for Research-Based Design

eSchool News

The Research-Based Design Product Certification uses a competency-based learning framework, developed in consultation with Digital Promise’s Learner Variability Project advisory board, expert researchers in the Learning Sciences field, and nearly 50 educators across the United States. About 95 Percent Group.

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Vermont’s ‘all over the map’ effort to switch schools to proficiency-based learning

The Hechinger Report

Senior Remi Savard is part of the last class at Montpelier High School that experienced the system before the school’s switch to a proficiency-based model. Michael Dougherty for The Hechinger Report. Nellie Mae is among the many funders of The Hechinger Report.). It’s better than it was.” MONTPELIER, Vt. It’s gone.”.

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Personalized Learning “Twister”: A Future of Learning Live Demo in Dallas

EdNews Daily

The new-school answer to the definition of personalized learning is markedly different. Its biggest divergence has to do with physical structure of where learners and teachers are spending the most time, and the disaggregation of the classroom and modification of the grade groupings. The Game Rules. Auto-Cohorting.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

The Horizon Report. The organization, which was founded in 1994, was best known for its annual Horizon Report, its list of predictions about the near-future of education technology. But as the ed-tech sector is never willing to let a bad idea die, the report will live on. The Flipped Classroom". with Pigeons.

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