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

The Hechinger Report

While the pandemic still took its toll, adapting to online learning was smoother in Lindsay due to its preexisting infrastructure and history of adaptation. 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.

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What Does a School Need to Enable Learning Based on Student Competency?

MindShift

A CompetencyWorks report, “Maximizing Competency Education and Blended Learning: Insights from Experts,” looks at ways that the movement for personalization dovetails with blended learning and competency-based learning to achieve a more student-centered approach to school. LEADERSHIP.

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The Trends and Challenges Shaping Technology Adoption In Schools

MindShift

Rethinking How Schools Work: Another trend educators have long talked about is the need to make learning more interdisciplinary, interactive and student-driven. Technology could be a productive part of this shift by changing where and how students engage with learning.

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A school where you can’t fail — it just takes you longer to learn

The Hechinger Report

But, in general, students work at their own pace through worksheets, online lessons and small-group discussions with teachers. They get frequent updates on which skills they’ve learned and which ones they need to acquire. Sign up for our Blended Learning newsletter. The students at M.S. Photo: Kyle Spencer.

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

The Hechinger Report

Related: Rhode Island’s lively experiment in blended learning. Rando noticed when his daughter, Olivia, a middle school student and a black belt in karate, enrolled in VLACS to accommodate training and competition. Summing up what that’s done for her kids, she said, “They’ve learned to enjoy learning.”.