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What is Mastery Learning and How Do You Implement It Effectively?

The CoolCatTeacher

Mastery learning (also called competency-based learning) is being used in some classes and schools. Jon Bergmann, author of the Mastery Learning Handbook talks about how he uses mastery learning in his chemistry and physics classrooms. is whatever and they think we need to completely rethink how we do.

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Teacher shortages bring to mind the saying ‘necessity is the mother of invention’

eSchool News

According to Jacobsen, “as districts struggle to fill teaching vacancies, they are increasingly turning to companies like Proximity to teach core subjects.” Among high schools that serve large percentages of African-American and Latino students, one in four don’t offer Algebra II, and one in three don’t offer chemistry.”

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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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K-12 Educators and Administrators: Share Your Ed-tech Pilot Approach

Digital Promise

Digital Promise will award up to ten school or district leaders who submit a response by March 27 with a $1,000 stipend for a trip to San Francisco, including workshops with leading software companies, in partnership with the Education Technology Industry Network. So do most ed-tech companies. Manager of Blended Learning.

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How 2Revolutions is Helping Schools, Districts, and States Support Future of Learning Models

Edsurge

They created 2Rev as an education design lab—a place where designs for innovative learning models could be developed and tested. From 2008 - 2011, the company worked on projects spanning early childhood, grades K-12, higher education and the workforce, while simultaneously crystallizing its philosophy.

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How to do online learning well? A California district has some answers.

The Hechinger Report

The result was the adoption of “a learner centered, personalized, competency-based” approach that allows students to meet learning goals on their own terms, Rooney said. Related: Why a high-performing district is changing everything with competency-based learning. Does it work?

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Odysseyware launches new professional learning series

eSchool News

The sequence of professional learning opportunities will highlight the unique ways schools and districts nationwide are implementing innovative strategies and new instructional models to transform learning for their students. PDT; • “Val Verde Academy: A Successful Blended Learning Model” on May 5th at 9:00 a.m.