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Create Small Learning Communities with the Station Rotation Model

Catlin Tucker

My interest in blended learning and weaving together learning mediums to include both in-class and online learning was in part driven by my desire to create smaller student-centered learning communities in my classroom. How many devices are needed for the online learning stations?

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Early Elementary: Differentiate Reading Practice

Catlin Tucker

In my last post titled “ Create Small Learning Communities with the Station Rotation Model ,” I provided a blended learning strategy that creates more time in the classroom for teachers to work individually with students. In one online learning station, students listen to books/stories with an audio recording.

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8 Essential Books Every Tech-Minded Teacher Should Read

Ask a Tech Teacher

Blended: Using Disruptive Innovation to Improve Schools. Blended learning is slowly emerging as one of the top trends in modern education, and this book addresses that topic. More education books: Google Apps Meets Common Core. Common Core Literacy for ELA. by Michael B. Christensen. Endangered Minds.

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The FREE Lesson Plans and Resources You Aren’t Using! (but should be) – SULS0148

Shake Up Learning

With the emergence of Common Core and very few resources available to align with these new standards, teachers began utilizing OER once again. There was an influx of districts assigning teachers or instructional coaches to compile OER options that reflected the needs of common core. Where do teachers find OER? .

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The Importance of Student Buy In for the Use of New Technology and Teaching Methods

Saving Socrates

This year, we have a unique opportunity to recreate the learning experience for our students. Having been given a rather large grant (BOLD, Blended Online Learning Day Schools), we had ambitious goals, we still do. It was about teaching writing with the common core standards. That I knew. Good question!

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How Traditional Public Schools Win in the Competition for Students

edWeb.net

Traditional public schools must ensure continued success in order to compete for students against charter schools, online learning, and other forms of education. Dissatisfied students, parents, and even staff leave schools needing to work harder than ever to regain the confidence of everyone.

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Is the new education reform hiding in plain sight?

The Hechinger Report

What does personalized learning mean to the perennial tug-of-war over content — in higher education’s “great books” debate over whether students should absorb the Western canon or study what they want, and, at the K-12 level, over the Common Core? Is sameness the key to equal opportunity?