The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2021

. — At first glance, the binders incorporating a whole year of learning at the Parker-Varney elementary school in Manchester look a little like Candy Land, the beloved game of chance where players navigate a colorful route past delicious landmarks to arrive at a Candy Castle. This story also appeared in The Washington Post.

Competency Based Learning 140

Competency Based Learning Personalized Learning Report Advocacy 140

A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 19, 2017

Empowerment and ownership need and should be associated with learning to increase relevancy, value, meaning, and outcomes. The desire to increase agency in the form of voice, choice, and advocacy should be viewed as just as important for educators (teachers and administrators) as it is for students.

Advocacy 178

Advocacy Digital Badges Education Meeting 178

A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 18, 2016

We were able to transform the learning culture of a traditional school and in the process got results while becoming an example that others emulated. Image credit: https://andrewherrick.files.wordpress.com If we are to improve learning and ultimately school-based outcomes student agency needs to be a real element of school culture.

Advocacy 150

Advocacy Edmodo BYOD Assessment 150

Edsurge

AUGUST 9, 2022

Bringing together more than 100 organizations across the fields of disability advocacy, special education, civil rights and K-12 nonprofits, the Educating All Learners Alliance (EALA) is one such network formed to ensure equity and support for students with disabilities and learning differences across education environments.

UDL 166

UDL EdTech Student Engagement Advocacy 166

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

He decides whether to tackle a math lesson or a science one, for example, taking into account his own interests as well as his responsibilities. Now, if he finishes a history lesson first, for example, he goes on to the next one – or switches to another subject. It’s not like you’re learning different stuff,” Roshawn said.

Personalized Learning 110

Personalized Learning Advocacy Study Report 110

The Hechinger Report

MAY 6, 2019

“We see kids whose challenges don’t show up on their report card, so they aren’t getting services,” said Jennifer Choi, a parent and founder of the advocacy group 2eNYC and a trustee of the nonprofit Twice Exceptional Children’s Advocacy. But parents say there’s a long way to go.

Advocacy 111

Advocacy Elementary Training Report 111

Digital Promise

APRIL 23, 2019

We can’t allow frustrations to lead us toward alternative examples of mediocrity or failure. While there are certainly exceptions, this human interaction standard can serve as a compass to guide our investments and advocacy. Technology should support rather than replace human interactions. Let’s start a movement.

EdTech 299

EdTech Dropout Advocacy Outcomes 299

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Personalized learning lets Champlain Valley Union High School sophomore Bella Curtis study toward a certificate in horse management. We have to engage in a movement,” Susan Patrick, CEO of the nonprofit advocacy group known as iNACOL (International Association for K-12 Online Learning), told the cheering crowd of 3,000 true believers.

Advocacy 87

Advocacy Learning Conference Common Core 87

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2017

His school and his state are trailblazers in personalized learning, a method that tailors instruction to students’ individual interests and learning speeds. Personalized learning advocates had big hopes for ESSA, enacted in 2015. About 20 other states sprinkled elements of personalized learning into their plans.

Personalized Learning 69

Personalized Learning Policies Advocacy Assessment 69

Shake Up Learning

JULY 5, 2022

Many teachers discovered tools they didn’t know about and learned how to incorporate more technology into their teaching practice. Now that most classrooms have moved back to in-person learning, Mike shares his curiosity about how teachers continue to utilize technology to help their students. .

Assistive Technology 96

Assistive Technology Learning Strategy Resources 96

Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Third, the Recommendation comments positively on the ability of information and communications technologies (ICT) to “open possibilities for OER… to enable personalized learning.” For example, the government makes sustained investment in creating and maintaining roads, but it doesn’t do this work itself.

OER 119

OER Advocacy Resources Accessibility 119

Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2017

And yet as I travel the country, I encounter examples of schools where nearly every student is fully engaged and excited to be there. Nearly half of middle and high students in a 2016 Gallup poll reported being either not engaged or actively disengaged in school. What’s different?

Advocacy 159

Advocacy Guidelines Report Personalized Learning 159

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

The National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, a charter advocacy group, issued a document in 2016 along with two other organizations asking states to establish performance-based funding systems that pay virtual charters based on metrics like course completion and calling on charter authorizers to close chronically underperforming schools.

E-rate 123

E-rate Pearson Company Report 123

MindShift

MAY 6, 2019

“We see kids whose challenges don’t show up on their report card, so they aren’t getting services,” said Jennifer Choi, a parent and founder of the advocacy group 2eNYC and a trustee of the nonprofit Twice Exceptional Children’s Advocacy. But parents say there’s a long way to go.

Advocacy 53

Advocacy Elementary Training Assessment 53

edWeb.net

AUGUST 26, 2019

As the importance and benefits of social-emotional learning (SEL) have become more widely recognized, many teachers have struggled to combine this type of learning with their required curriculum. Bobbi Bear, Director of Customer Advocacy for Achieve3000, and a former eighth grade English teacher has spent 11 years in the classroom.

Differentiated Instruction 43

Differentiated Instruction Secondary Advocacy Dropout 43

The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

And Shayla Savage, a middle school principal, said that when her students returned to in-person learning this spring, she noticed differences beyond just their math and reading progress compared to previous years. “We Even with the physical aspect of school, the learning loss is real all across the board.”.

Study 138

Study Data Report Elementary 138

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2020

The center’s database is filled with examples of how districts are trying to keep learning going from a distance. When it comes to distance learning, you don’t have to be high-tech to be effective.”. of the Aurora Institute, formerly known as iNACOL, an advocacy organization promoting competency-based education.

Learning 67

Learning Laptops Smartphone Accessibility 67

Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

JANUARY 1, 2020

Let me give you an example. To take the simplest example of how this mask conceals more than it reveals, consider that even the scale used to translate a percentage into a letter grade can vary district to district in the same state, or even school to school in the same district. That's eight percent more effort." "Oh I get it now.

LMS 52

LMS System Course Assessment 52

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

While some students remain unconnected, Oakland’s effort has emerged as an example of how to tackle a citywide digital divide. “We It’s just been exacerbated by the pandemic,” said Rebeca Shackleford, the director of federal government relations at All4Ed, an education advocacy nonprofit. The homework gap isn’t new.

Digital Divide 111

Digital Divide Broadband Chromebook Survey 111

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 28, 2022

For example, in Virginia, where the use of threat assessment protocols is mandatory, team members are required to get up to a full day of instruction. Related: Some kids have returned to in-person learning only to be kicked right back out. Threat assessment teams are usually trained in this approach.

Assessment 102

Assessment Report Training Guidelines 102

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2016

“Schools are often looking at instructional uses,” said Thomas Arnett, a research fellow at the Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation and author of a paper chronicling the efforts of these two organizations to co-develop classroom technology to support personalized learning.

Technology 40

Technology Blended Learning iPad Advocacy 40

N2Y

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Incorporate a student’s high interests into instructional activities and remote learning to better hold their attention and engage them in instruction they might otherwise find challenging. For example, if a student loves trains, consider using them to teach counting or color identification. Hybrid or In-Person Learning.

Strategy 52

Strategy Advocacy System Personalized Learning 52

The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2016

Education Reimagined, a reform advocacy program that emerged from an unusual coalition of union leaders and reformers, recently highlighted the Cedar Rapids district’s work, and The Hechinger Report spoke with Pickering to learn more about it. Pickering oversees innovation, school improvement and technology in the district.

Blended Learning 82

Blended Learning Survey Advocacy Meeting 82

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

In most cases, schools are turning to third parties for help building out their core and non-core content right now, said Allison Powell, VP for new learning models at iNACOL , the nonprofit blended learning advocacy group. Powell points to Facebook’s recent move into the K-12 space as an example.

LMS 40

LMS Blended Learning Advocacy Company 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

There may be no better example of this in 2017 than “personalized learning.” “Personalized learning” has powerful advocates, least of which US Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos who talks about it as part of her broader initiative to “rethink school.” Manufacturing Trends.

Trends 56

Trends Coursera Company Personalized Learning 56

edWeb.net

OCTOBER 16, 2018

That stagnation of the environment mirrors the stagnation in how many classrooms still work (a teacher at the front, lecturing students and asking them to repeat back what they learned). Schools need to throw out that design—and that way of teaching—and think about developing spaces that reflect new approaches to learning.

Technology 40

Technology PowerMyLearning Learning EdTech 40

Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

For example, in 2015 I wrote that “My ultimate goal is this: I want to (1) radically improve the quality of education as judged by learners, and (2) radically improve access to education. The question we must each ask ourselves is – what is the real goal of our OER advocacy?

Accessibility 62

Accessibility OER Pearson MOOC 62

The Hechinger Report

JULY 7, 2019

That perspective bothers Kellie O’Quinn, director of the Center for Social Measurement and Research at Children at Risk, a children’s advocacy organization in Houston. “I Charleston, for example, does not have data that would show, say, whether more African American students opt to study culinary arts or nail tech than white students.

Robotics 112

Robotics Elementary STEM Training 112

Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Meanwhile, the schools that shared their ideas focused on student-centered learning and models that honor the differences in students and “think about personalized learning beyond just technology.” For example, a folio on Cushing Syndrome would gather information such as medical trials and patents on the hormonal disorder.

Personalized Learning 123

Personalized Learning Learning Company Policies 123

Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Brennan McMahon Parton, Data Quality Campaign ’s associate director of state policy and advocacy, recently spoke with him about data literacy for teachers. One example of this is that my school implemented tiered warm-ups where there are three different levels in each question. He was named Maryland State Teacher of the Year in 2012.

Data 60

Data Analysis Assessment Training 60

Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2017

Jahliel Thurman (Vice President of Uplift Entertainment) and Shalon Bell (Director of Strategic Alliances at the Atlanta Voice)—will discuss how despite limited monetary capital, these institutions continue to boost students’ potential in graduate education, entrepreneurship and advocacy through human capital. EdSurge 4:00 p.m.

MOOC 60

MOOC EdTech OER Kaplan 60

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2019

I had never seen kids so in charge of their learning.”. Related: What if personalized learning was less about me and more about us? To build public support for the changes, the foundation also gave smaller grants to youth and immigrant advocacy groups in the districts. I was fascinated by it,” he said. “I

Learning 111

Learning Report System Case Study 111

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

(From left to right) Sixth graders Mia DeMore, Maria DeAndrade, and Stephen Boulas make a number line in their math class at Walsh Middle School in Framingham, Massachusetts, one of 132 “Basecamp” schools piloting the Personalized Learning Platform created by the Summit charter school network. Photo: Chris Berdik. FRAMINGHAM, Mass.

Personalized Learning 40

Personalized Learning Learning Elementary Common Core 40

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

With his transformative efforts, Mr. Hatcher has propelled Akron Public Schools to the forefront of educational excellence, becoming a shining example of how innovative education technologies can truly make a difference in students’ lives. Her advocacy resulted in $1.5

Edmentum 121

Edmentum Education Libraries Advocacy 121

MindShift

JULY 15, 2021

And Shayla Savage, a middle school principal, said that when her students returned to in-person learning this spring, she noticed differences beyond just their math and reading progress compared to previous years. “We Even with the physical aspect of school, the learning loss is real all across the board.”.

Study 42

Study Advocacy Training Groups 42

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

An afternoon away from the classroom in virtual learning is “almost like a restoration practice, giving them an opportunity to cool down or cool off,” Knight said. When the kids are academically on target, for example, you don’t want them to lose that momentum, and we allow [virtual] as an option.” It just depends.

Handbook 98

Handbook Learning Online Learning Data 98

The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

Summit Learning’s personalized learning program is a key part of the school’s improvement efforts. Personalized learning is one of the most popular goals in schools today. The computers themselves bring concerns about the negative effects of screens on children’s learning and brain development. MESA, Ariz.

Learning 123

Learning Laptops Personalized Learning Data 123