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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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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

This week brought two useful resources for addressing that problem. 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.

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Competency-Based Education: A Reading Journey

Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

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. The book also helped me think more deeply about the importance of advisory scheduling, graduate profiles, and students doing defenses of learning.

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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.

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Will “school choice on steroids” get a boost under a Trump administration?

The Hechinger Report

(The House version of the bill already sets aside 3 percent, or roughly $410 million, mostly for outside tutoring services; changes could be made when the House and Senate versions are reconciled in conference committee.). They want them at school learning. Read more about blended learning. It’s their identity.”. (In