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7 must-knows from blended learning’s early adopters

eSchool News

Earlier this year, the Highlander Institute, The Learning Accelerator and The Christensen Institute teamed up to bring together a conference on blended and personalized learning in Providence, R.I. 2 Go Slow to Go Fast When Implementing Competency-Based Models. 3 Make Students Agents of Their Learning.

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Four Ways to Redefine Parent Teacher Conferences—With a Little Help from Ironman

Edsurge

As a former New York City high school teacher, I know that parent-teacher conferences seldom provide parents with enough time to process what their children learned, what they’re interested in, and what needs improvement. Talk about what's being learned, not what's missing. Here’s our wall of work.

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Competency-Based Education: A Reading Journey

Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

I would argue that the principles laid out in the book are critical for moving to competency-based learning, as you need strong, clear, and consistent standards-based grading (SBG) practices to get there. Breaking with Tradition: The Shift to Competency-Based Learning in PLCs at Work by Brian M.

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Steps to Help Schools Transform to Competency-Based Learning

MindShift

If a student fails to learn a skill, he or she accepts that result and moves on to the next topic with the rest of the class. Competency-based learning, on the other hand, insists on mastery of subjects and provides students the time to learn; the students are not marched past failure.

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What does it take to make an innovative school?

The Hechinger Report

One is an expansion of a coalition of schools that share best practices, called the League of Innovative Schools; the other is a comprehensive report on the ways that competency-based learning initiatives have grown in the six New England states. Sign up for our Blended Learning newsletter.

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What a Summer Prototype Taught Us About Measuring Quality in an Unbundled Education System

Edsurge

Our collective goal was to begin to rethink quality assurance in an educational system with an array of learning providers. Framework for the Future of Learning. Our current approach of summative assessments has few fans. It is burdensome and takes big chunks of time away from learning. Source: ReSchool).

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Has New Hampshire found the secret to online education that works?

The Hechinger Report

The only students here now are in photos, like the one of a VLACS graduation ceremony that hangs in a classroom turned conference room. VLACS’s founder and CEO, Steve Kossakoski, sat for an interview earlier this spring in the conference room with the graduation photo. Related: Rhode Island’s lively experiment in blended learning.