The Hechinger Report

JUNE 1, 2016

Related: How one educator broke rules, influenced a state law, and got all of his students to graduation. Education is the only market that forces its consumer to consume a product without justification of its benefit or variety in choice.”. Related: Organic adoption of one technology leads to a seamless way to blend others.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

But for this to occur, the use of online learning shouldn’t just be to pipe in a virtual teacher that delivers more one-size-fits-none, whole-group instruction. If this is the case, although it’s better than the alternative—no teacher at all—it’s also a missed opportunity for deeper innovation.

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MindShift

JULY 9, 2015

It’s no longer a given that if a child spends twelve years in school, he or she will learn enough to succeed in higher education or a career. To address this issue, some educators are taking bold measures to help students. They also designed the infrastructure that supports it and learned some big lessons during implementation.

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Education Elements

JUNE 8, 2016

I was working in the trenches of the most confrontational aspect of education reform, trying to get laws passed to authorize vouchers, charter schools, tax-credits scholarships and education savings accounts. Professor Christensen was planning to apply the disruptive lens to social issues and education was his first priority.

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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2020

“Those weekly face-to-face sessions are as much about seeing people’s faces—seeing how tired they look, seeing how engaged they are in the material, seeing all of those kinds of things, and having that back and forth—as it is learning new content together,” she noted. Department of Education.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 10, 2015

Are you a K-12 educator or administrator? Do you think others could learn from the way you conduct ed-tech pilots to inform product decisions? Digital Promise is crowdsourcing best practices for piloting learning technology tools, and we want to hear from you! Manager of Blended Learning. 8 PM ET, March 27, 2015.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2016

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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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2017

As edtech buzzwords new and old swirl , it is easy for educators to get lost among the fads du jour, much less apply the principles behind lofty ideas to make meaningful progress for students. At some schools, educators don’t take what they learn in alternative settings to improve mainstream classes.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2021

. — On a morning this fall at Washington Elementary, a young boy, sitting at a table with five of his peers, held a tablet while he built a digital snowman — a cool proposition given the 85-degree heat just outside his air-conditioned classroom. Teachers rarely stand at the front of the classroom.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

In the summer of 2016, a community of educators, research design partners, and over 150 teens and young adults in Colorado engaged in a bold experiment to rethink how quality and impact might be measured in a modernized system of learning. In this relatively small, short-cycle prototype, the lessons we learned were significant.

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Edsurge

MAY 8, 2017

Often, “what needs improvement” dominates the conversation; if parents must endure this in multiple classrooms with multiple teachers, it doesn’t provide the incentive to come back next time. Find the right tools As report card season for the school year gets underway, I encourage educators to do their due diligence.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 29, 2016

The goal of the event was to focus on the practical elements of blended and personalized learning by surfacing the tactics that practitioners were deploying in the trenches. Here are six change management strategies that practitioners stressed as vital to driving new models of learning across traditional systems: 1. Open doors.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 18, 2015

It’s Time For Personalized Learning In Education. by Michael Horn , Executive Director of Education at Innosight Institute and co-author of Disrupting Class. In March, Tom Loveless, a fellow at the Brookings Institution, took an outdated swipe at the logic behind moving toward a student-centered learning system.

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eSchool News

MAY 4, 2016

Odysseyware, a provider of customizable online courses for K-12 education, announced the launch of its School Transformation Series. These models are ushering in a new era of personalized learning pathways, teacher empowerment, and student choice. PDT; • “Val Verde Academy: A Successful Blended Learning Model” on May 5th at 9:00 a.m.

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Edsurge

MAY 16, 2017

The term “grades” has become almost taboo among some educators in New Hampshire, where seven elementary schools are slowly ditching the word altogether through a program known as. The program—short for “no grades, no grades”—is hallmarked by the schools shifting to a more competency-based assessment structure and removal of grade levels.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

We all remember classmates who sat in the back of the room, eyes glued to a comic or dog-eared paperback, anything to escape a learning environment that did not—or could not—engage them. Today, I lead a company that creates online models for teaching and learning, yet my mission is much the same as it was when I was in the classroom.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 27, 2015

Ed note: This post is promoted by SEU’s Master of Education program, who asked to write about how learning is changing, and let you know about their Master of Education and Educational Leadership program, which can you read more about here. Lecture likely has a place in education. Learning Models.

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Edsurge

JUNE 13, 2017

I’ve continued to go back to Tony Wan’s piece, Why There’s Little Consistency in Defining Competency-Based Education. I’m thrilled he wrote it, as I think it holds up a mirror to all of us working in the world of competency-based education about where we can do better. Source: CompetencyWorks.

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MindShift

MARCH 25, 2015

Many teachers have long been frustrated with static, canned curriculum that doesn’t seem connected to kids’ lives, and testing requirements that drive the learning experience. ’ Competency education refers to a break from the traditional time-based school model. LEADERSHIP.

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Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

MARCH 10, 2020

As Shelby County 's journey toward competency-based education (CBE) has become regionally and nationally known, educators often ask about resources we have discovered along the way. Reinventing Crediting for Competency-Based Education: the Mastery Transcript Consortium Model and Beyond by Jonathan E.

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MindShift

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Every year for the past 15 years the New Media Consortium and the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) have been taking the pulse of where education technology stands among K-12 educators. Technology could be a productive part of this shift by changing where and how students engage with learning.

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Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2022

So many bright educators love teaching and love kids, but they're physically and emotionally exhausted. After nearly two decades of teaching, leading, researching and writing—all with a focus on personalized learning—Smith is taking another step forward in his life’s mission to better understand students and help them learn.

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Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2018

Nearly ten years ago, I started my career in education as a math teacher at a new alternative high school serving over-age, under-credited youth in New York City. If we, the educators, were going to serve our students well, we were going to have to get pedagogically creative. Yes, this was before Google Classroom existed!)

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2017

Moheeb is part of a new program that is challenging the way teachers and students think about academics, and his school is one of hundreds that have done away with traditional letter grades inside their classrooms. The strategy looks different in every classroom, as does the material that students must master. The students at M.S.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2018

The New York Times has a new education supplement, called Learning, and The Hechinger Report is collaborating with the Times to produce Bulletin Board, a collection of noteworthy ideas and trends in education that will appear on page 2 of the section, which will come out four times a year. Highlights from Bulletin Board follow.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 3, 2016

The only students here now are in photos, like the one of a VLACS graduation ceremony that hangs in a classroom turned conference room. When you think about virtual education, it’s often more about efficiency and getting more students through than it is about relationships,” he said. VLACS founder and CEO, Steve Kossakoski.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Secretary of Education, is giving parents freedom of choice, either to choose charter schools or to use vouchers to buy an education at any school they like, public or private. And, not unlike what often happens with charter schools and vouchers, the Course Access policies can set up a competition for limited education dollars.

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