Advocacy, Personalized Learning and Report

State Support, Community Effort: Personalized Learning in South Carolina

Edsurge

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Marianne Beja had been in education for more than 30 years when she discovered personalized learning. I want to build a community of lifelong learners, and I think personalized learning is the way to do it. I want to build a community of lifelong learners, and I think personalized learning is the way to do it.”

Personalized Learning

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Choosing personalized learning as a strategy for educational equity

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 10, 2018

“Personalized learning” is among the most discussed initiatives in education today. Most schools nationwide say they’ve implemented personalized learning, to some degree. It makes personalized learning a strategy for equity. Related: Rethinking grade levels and school design for personalized learning.

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Resource: iNACOL’s Reports on Next-Generation Learning

Edsurge

OCTOBER 29, 2017

It does this through: Advocacy. Creating knowledge (through research and reports). Identifying models of next-generation learning. Materials include reports to help shape vision, such as: What’s Possible with Personalized Learning? Additionally, a section of reports address policy issues.

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Framing the Personalized Learning Discussion from Tom Driscoll

EdTechTeacher

JUNE 15, 2018

Learn more about what Tom is doing with teachers by following him on Twitter: @Mr_Driscoll. Although Personalized Learning has gained considerable traction in education, there is still much confusion and, at times, heated debate regarding what this set of ideas actually means and looks like in practice. Learning is social.

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Does the future of schooling look like Candy Land?

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2021

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. Lillian Pace, vice president of policy and advocacy, KnowledgeWorks.

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Virtual charter schools need “bold action” for change, says national charter school advocacy group

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 16, 2016

The major advocacy group for public charter schools is concerned that failing online charter schools may be hurting the credibility of the movement as a whole. Report of the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools. What we’ve seen, in terms of the research, is that there’s a lot more self-directed learning,” Ziebarth said.

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OPINION: We need more problem solvers and critical thinkers for an increasingly complex world

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Following full-scale implementation of a proficiency-based system in 2011, postsecondary enrollment increased to 71 percent by 2018, up from an average rate of 59 percent over the 10 years prior to the district’s shift to personalized, competency-based learning. Related: OPINION: Post pandemic, it’s time for a bold overhaul of U.S.

Competency Based Learning

Competency Based Learning Policies Advocacy Report

How Access to Technology Can Create Equity in Schools

Digital Promise

APRIL 29, 2019

Students have fewer barriers to learning when they can use their tablets or laptops not only to find homework instructions, read e-books, and share important information with their families, but to create and work on independent projects, research topics that interest them, and connect with subject experts.

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OPINION: Creating better post-pandemic education for English learners

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 19, 2021

Until in-person learning can fully resume, family members are the only adults who regularly work with students on distance learning assignments. A 2019 Department of Education report found evidence that English learners suffered from these divides before the pandemic; the crisis has only made them more consequential.

Education

Education Digital Divide Advocacy Report

Twice exceptional, doubly disadvantaged? How schools struggle to serve gifted students with disabilities

The Hechinger Report

MAY 6, 2019

Rachel Blustain for The Hechinger Report. 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. Rachel Blustain for The Hechinger Report.

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What the World Can Teach the US About Education Technology

Edsurge

MARCH 24, 2019

Some of the conclusions may not come as a surprise in the Omidyar Network’s report on what works in scaling education technology in different regions worldwide. Governments, educators, advocacy groups and companies large and small need to work better together. says the report. Take Chile, for instance. 75) and China (54).

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Giving students a say

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report. And he says Vertus’s brand of personalized learning isn’t all that personalized. It’s not like you’re learning different stuff,” Roshawn said. Personalized learning is among the most popular solutions in U.S. Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report.

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When the Variability of All Learners Is Addressed

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.

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OPINION: With many schools choosing online learning, how can we keep the music alive?

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 26, 2020

While the learning curve has been steep in terms of new technology, and there have been some expected kinks to work out, virtual learning has brought some opportunities that an immediate return to in-person learning may not have. Music teachers need your advocacy and your help. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

Online Learning

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Report: The 4 models of blended learning in action

eSchool News

JULY 8, 2015

New report explores main blended models and their use. A new paper by advocacy and policy org iNacol explores how blended learning is being used in practice and traces its history from 2008 to today. Flipped learning might also be used to help students rotate.

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Despite mediocre records, for-profit online charter schools are selling parents on staying virtual

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Pearson, the parent company of Connections Education, the second largest for-profit online charter operator, reported enrollment growth in its virtual schools division of 20 percent in 2020. Gary Miron, an education researcher who co-authored a National Education Policy Center report on for-profit charter schools. At Stride Inc.,

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As states push for news ways of learning, some kids and parents feel left behind

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.

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?Framework: Future Ready Schools’ Commitment and Dashboard

Edsurge

OCTOBER 29, 2017

“For personalized learning to thrive, principals must create a culture of innovation that brings together students, teachers, administrators, parents and the community to share a vision for an improved learning experience.”. What the program offers.

Future Ready

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Edtech, Equity, and Innovation: A Critical Look in the Mirror

Digital Promise

APRIL 23, 2019

What was reaffirmed by the amount of time parents spend supplementing the use of virtual programs and the emphasis stakeholders across our personalized learning initiative placed on educator capacity is that education inherently remains a human endeavor. Technology should support rather than replace human interactions.

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Why haven’t new federal rules unleashed more innovation in schools?

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Photo: Kate Flock for The Hechinger Report. 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.

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Personalized Learning Policies Advocacy Assessment

Schools collect more data, but how is it used?

The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2017

State leaders are collecting reams of data on students, but they must do more to put that information into the hands of parents and teachers, according to a new report. Sign up for our Blended Learning newsletter. Brennan McMahon Parton, director of policy and advocacy at the Data Quality Campaign. Sign up for our newsletter.

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XPRIZE: The Real Winners? Underserved Adult Learners

Digital Promise

AUGUST 29, 2017

Although low-skilled adults have minimal access to educational opportunities, I outlined in my 2015 blog post some ways in which technology has the potential to provide critical access to quality, personalized learning experiences for this underserved population. In fact, according to U.S.

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?Resource: Project Unicorn Interoperability

Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2017

Project Unicorn is an advocacy initiative focused on improving data interoperability within K-12 education. Or as the Hechinger Report noted: “Educators, students, policy makers and the public must be able to understand and use the data. It strives to make the broader case for secure interoperability for students and school system.

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How one city closed the digital divide for nearly all its students

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report. “We Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report Boxes of #OaklandUndivided devices wait for student pickup at Castlemont High School in May 2021. Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report. Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report. The homework gap isn’t new.

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One of the poorest cities in America was succeeding in an education turnaround. Is that now in peril?

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2023

Credit: Grace McConnell for The Hechinger Report Gordon is getting a lot of that: plaques, thank-yous, T-shirts, goodbye hugs from parents, teachers and current and former students. Credit: Grace McConnell for The Hechinger Report The strategy was bolstered in 2019 when Gordon attracted a national college-promotion program called Say Yes.

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Survey Shows Big Remote Learning Gaps For Low-Income And Special Needs Children

MindShift

MAY 28, 2020

students are accessing remote learning as little as once a week or less, according to a new survey from ParentsTogether, an advocacy group. By contrast, for families making more than $100,000 a year, 83% of kids are doing distance learning every day, with the majority engaged over two hours a day, the survey found.

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Survey Advocacy Learning Report

Do protocols for school safety infringe on disability rights?

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Credit: Valerie Plesch for the Hechinger Report. Related: Sent home early: Lost learning in special education. But the district claimed that AJ wasn’t being removed for a disciplinary violation, so no review was required, according to the state report. Credit: Valerie Plesch for the Hechinger Report.

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MIA in School: Instilling a Sense of Purpose in Students

Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2017

It’s also a mindset that many teenagers appear to lack, according to research Damon carried out at the Stanford Center on Adolescence: About 20 percent of high school kids report being purposeful and dedicated to something besides themselves.

Advocacy

Advocacy Guidelines Report Personalized Learning

How one district went all-in on a tutoring program to catch kids up

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.”. Your stories.

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Current Trends in Education

eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Key points: Current education trends point to personalization and accessibility Keeping up with current trends in education is essential for educators Learn more about K-12 Tech Innovation News In the dynamic landscape of K-12 education, several trends are shaping the way students learn and educators teach.

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In New York state, students can be suspended for up to an entire school year

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

Credit: Sarah Butrymowicz/The Hechinger Report New York state allows students to be suspended for up to 180 days — an entire school year. A recent report from a State Education Department task force recommends such a limit in all but the rarest of circumstances. In the meantime, he’d get a few hours of tutoring a week.

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District says 24 credits and a D-minus average aren’t good enough

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 17, 2017

When Kylie Jones brings home her report card, it doesn’t have any A’s, B’s or C’s. Traditional grades no longer exist, children get extra help based on their individual learning needs and classrooms run very differently. Related: Personalized learning: How kids are getting into college by mastering their skills.

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How a New Hampshire school uses personalization to put the tools in the hands of the learners

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Today’s education and cognitive scientists affirm that every learner has a dynamic profile of strengths and challenges that impacts their learning journey. Since its inception in 2002, Making Community Connections Charter School (MC 2 ) has been committed to personalizing learning.

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How Schools Struggle to Serve Gifted Students with Disabilities

MindShift

MAY 6, 2019

This story about twice exceptional students was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Rachel Blustain for The Hechinger Report ). Rachel Blustain for The Hechinger Report). Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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Who wants to lead America’s school districts? Anyone? Anyone?

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2022

As hard as those first months were, the gradual return to in-person learning in fall 2020 was harder. Calen Evans, a STEM coordinator in the Washoe County School District and president of an advocacy group called Empower Nevada Teachers, is bracing himself for that change yet again. appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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District adds data use to teacher training

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

Once these needs are assessed, the system helps teachers create a personal learning plan. When teachers are empowered with meaningful data, teaching and learning improves.”said said Paige Kowalski, Vice President of Policy and Advocacy at the Data Quality Campaign. Material from a press release was used in this report.

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Inside Maine’s disastrous roll out of proficiency-based learning

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2019

Kelly Field, for The Hechinger Report. To answer that question, The Hechinger Report combed through grant databases, legislative records and lobbying disclosures, looking for the forces and funding behind LD 1422. Kelly Field, for The Hechinger Report. The Gates Foundation is among the many funders of The Hechinger Report.).

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She has ‘the heart of a nurse,’ but can she overcome obstacles to her degree?

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 24, 2020

Credit: Liz Willen/The Hechinger Report. SPECIAL REPORT. Yet our reporting has discovered just how difficult it is to educate and train the next generation of nurses. Credit: Liz Willen/The Hechinger Report. Credit: Liz Willen/The Hechinger Report. Credit: Liz Willen/The Hechinger Report. Becoming a nurse.

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Schools lead the way to zero-energy buildings, and use them for student learning

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2018

Photo: Chris Berdik for The Hechinger Report. Much of the advocacy for net-zero buildings has focused on environmental and economic incentives. Photo: Chris Berdik for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Chris Berdik for The Hechinger Report. ” Photo: Chris Berdik for The Hechinger Report.

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

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 21, 2019

Michael Dougherty for The Hechinger Report. Foundations promoting the model also pitched in, like the Massachusetts-based foundation Nellie Mae, a proponent of proficiency-approaches, which provided two districts with roughly $6 million in funding over seven years to support student-centered learning. It’s better than it was.”

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A Tiny Microbe Upends Decades of Learning

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2020

When it comes to distance learning, you don’t have to be high-tech to be effective.”. He suggested, for example, that teachers could email students a video link to a news report of a controversial issue, or a historical documentary, along with a few key questions and a post-viewing writing prompt. It was about, ‘How will we do it?’ ”.

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What does ‘career readiness’ look like in middle school?

The Hechinger Report

JULY 7, 2019

Photo: Stephanie Strom for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Stephanie Strom for The Hechinger Report. 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 Photo: Stephanie Strom for The Hechinger Report.

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Robotics Elementary STEM Training

Launching Future Ready Librarians

NeverEndingSearch

JULY 1, 2016

The printable Future Ready Librarians Fact Sheet can be a critical advocacy tool. Future Ready Librarians connects the dots between library and school leaders who, in fact, share a vision for future ready schools, but who may not realize they are logical partners to support innovation and personalized learning for kids.

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For ed-tech success, why schools use technology is just as important as how

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. Read more about Blended Learning.

Technology

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State Support, Community Effort: Personalized Learning in South Carolina

Choosing personalized learning as a strategy for educational equity

Trending Sources

Resource: iNACOL’s Reports on Next-Generation Learning

Framing the Personalized Learning Discussion from Tom Driscoll

Does the future of schooling look like Candy Land?

Virtual charter schools need “bold action” for change, says national charter school advocacy group

OPINION: We need more problem solvers and critical thinkers for an increasingly complex world

How Access to Technology Can Create Equity in Schools

OPINION: Creating better post-pandemic education for English learners

Twice exceptional, doubly disadvantaged? How schools struggle to serve gifted students with disabilities

What the World Can Teach the US About Education Technology

Giving students a say

When the Variability of All Learners Is Addressed

OPINION: With many schools choosing online learning, how can we keep the music alive?

Report: The 4 models of blended learning in action

Despite mediocre records, for-profit online charter schools are selling parents on staying virtual

As states push for news ways of learning, some kids and parents feel left behind

?Framework: Future Ready Schools’ Commitment and Dashboard

Edtech, Equity, and Innovation: A Critical Look in the Mirror

Why haven’t new federal rules unleashed more innovation in schools?

Schools collect more data, but how is it used?

XPRIZE: The Real Winners? Underserved Adult Learners

?Resource: Project Unicorn Interoperability

How one city closed the digital divide for nearly all its students

One of the poorest cities in America was succeeding in an education turnaround. Is that now in peril?

Survey Shows Big Remote Learning Gaps For Low-Income And Special Needs Children

Do protocols for school safety infringe on disability rights?

MIA in School: Instilling a Sense of Purpose in Students

How one district went all-in on a tutoring program to catch kids up

Current Trends in Education

In New York state, students can be suspended for up to an entire school year

District says 24 credits and a D-minus average aren’t good enough

How a New Hampshire school uses personalization to put the tools in the hands of the learners

How Schools Struggle to Serve Gifted Students with Disabilities

Who wants to lead America’s school districts? Anyone? Anyone?

District adds data use to teacher training

Inside Maine’s disastrous roll out of proficiency-based learning

She has ‘the heart of a nurse,’ but can she overcome obstacles to her degree?

Schools lead the way to zero-energy buildings, and use them for student learning

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

A Tiny Microbe Upends Decades of Learning

What does ‘career readiness’ look like in middle school?

Launching Future Ready Librarians

For ed-tech success, why schools use technology is just as important as how

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