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Today’s Innovations are Tomorrow’s Practices: Adapting Learning to Meet Students

Digital Promise

When COVID closed the door on in-person schooling in spring 2020, one of the biggest concerns for school districts was how to address the needs of students who experience cognitive learning challenges and/or physical disabilities. Jean Tower, Director of Media and Digital Learning at Needham Public Schools, Massachusetts.

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Formative feedback strategies every teacher should know about

Hapara

Students may also shift or adapt learning strategies to meet their desired outcomes. Increasing achievement with formative feedback strategies may also be more effective and less costly than reducing class sizes or strengthening educator content knowledge, as suggested in earlier studies by Wiliam and Thompson.

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Making Learning Personal: 5 Steps for Success

A Principal's Reflections

Emphasize choice and autonomy Empowering students with choice and autonomy is a fundamental aspect of personalized learning. When students have the freedom to choose topics, tasks, projects, or how to demonstrate understanding, they become more invested in their learning. The best classroom management strategy is sound pedagogy.

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How to study at home: Top mental strategies

Brainscape

What sets Brainscape apart from any other study app is that its adaptive learning algorithm leverages decades of cognitive science research. And through the cognitive principles of spaced repetition , active recall , and metacognition , it can help you learn anything TWICE as efficiently as traditional study methods.

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RTI and Personalization: A Dynamic Duo

A Principal's Reflections

One of the coaching topics that came up was how to improve the Response to Intervention (RTI) process as a means to support learners. It represents a multi-tiered process to identify the behavior and learning needs of struggling students early on and then provide specific support in the form of interventions.

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Empowerment Through Choice

A Principal's Reflections

In Disruptive Thinking in Our Classrooms (chapter 5), I go into detail on strategies such as choice boards, must-do/may-do activities, and playlists while sharing an array of practical examples by grade level. Each provides students with greater control over their learning while also freeing up the teacher for targeted instruction or support.

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High-Agency in the Remote and Hybrid Classroom

A Principal's Reflections

They need practical strategies that are not just effective but also can be developed in a reasonable amount of time. To achieve this goal, we must first examine the foundational elements that lead to successful teaching and learning, whether the environment is remote or hybrid. Educators desperately want and need support.

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