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How does an intelligent learning platform help teachers create a truly personalized learning environment?

Neo LMS

Learn what it means, what benefits it brings, and what teachers need to create a personalized learning environment for students. Once a student completes the class and its assessments, which are centered on these competencies, they acquire the necessary skills associated with the course’s competencies. What is personalized learning?

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Does Presence Equal Progress? Tracking Engagement in Online Schools

Edsurge

The practice of funding public schools and assessing student engagement based on a student’s physical attendance is rooted in this definition and has only reinforced what is an outmoded idea. But these concerns exist as well for traditional brick-and-mortar schools, some of which have failed generations of students.

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A charter chain thinks it has the answer for alternative schools

The Hechinger Report

School is open year-round, allowing students to continue their studies throughout the summer. Keeping students engaged who by definition have had trouble sticking with school is a challenge. When they first arrive, 60 percent of Altus students are behind on credits. Tim Tuter, executive director of Altus Schools.

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Challenging Educational Technology

The Electric Educator

This blog is primarily dedicated to sharing tips, tricks, and ideas on how to successfully use technology to increase student engagement, critical thinking, and mastery of learning objectives. It''s definitely worth a read. I''m a big supporter of educational technology. Spencer Recently John T.

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“It’s so hard and so challenging:” An oral history of year three of pandemic schooling

The Hechinger Report

The district’s Covid dashboard shows there have been more than 400 cases among students and staff, and 50 people were quarantined in mid-November. It feels really good and really important that our children… have access to in-person, five-day-a-week education. He’s definitely turned around. It was definitely a shift.

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Erasing the Look and Feel of Poverty

Digital Promise

Richard Del Moro, Assistant Superintendent of Curriculum and Instruction, adds that Middletown works hard to make their students “feel good” by providing opportunities beyond academics, including extracurricular activities, athletics, music, and the building environment. Why does that matter? Ending Social Promotion.

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Erasing the Look and Feel of Poverty

Digital Promise

” As a result, students engage in academics, athletics and extracurriculars because they “know you care.” Eastwood wants each student to be proficient in math and reading before finishing 5th grade. . Why does that matter? ” All of these efforts are setting the groundwork toward a concrete goal.