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Implementing Innovation Strategies to Make School Districts More Equitable

edWeb.net

The strategies needed to transform school districts, along with the ongoing implementation of these strategies in one Connecticut district, were discussed during a recent edWebinar , hosted by AASA, The School Superintendents Association and AASA’s Leadership Network. Innovation and Implementation for Equity. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST.

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3 Strategies to Combat Summer Learning Loss

Digital Promise

NSLA states summer learning loss “ is one of the most significant causes of the achievement gap between lower and higher income youth and one of the strongest contributors to the high school dropout rate. For many young people, the summer ‘opportunity gap’ contributes to gaps in achievement, employment and college and career success.”

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HE Challenges: Fast changing digital teaching methods

Neo LMS

Read more: Why blended learning will become an educational norm. ” When, or if, this doomsday scenario arises for higher education, it will be a combination of the challenges we have examined thus far – costs of “campus-based” education, failing revenue streams, and expensive dropouts.

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Where Are You on Your Personalized Learning Journey?

Edsurge

This past week, we traveled to the Golden, Colorado to attend the Conference of Online and Blended Learning (COBL), put on by the iLearn Collaborative. When James Smith became principal at Snowy Peaks three years ago, the school was a dropout prevention program on turnaround status. Roots Elementary School in Denver, Colo.

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Is the new education reform hiding in plain sight?

The Hechinger Report

Rogers Elementary fourth-grade teacher Sudhir Vasal created math lesson pathways so each child can progress at their own pace. Rogers Elementary School here set a three-alarm fire in the library. Related: Choosing personalized learning as a strategy for educational equity. Rogers Elementary Principal Lisa Lovato.

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Arne Duncan: 6 Lessons I’ve Learned From My Time in Education

Edsurge

Then my friend, Barack Obama, became President of the United States and he asked me to develop an education strategy for the country. In other words, for every dollar we invest in high-quality pre-K, dropout rates decline. I’ve been in education my whole life: My mother set up a tutoring program for kids in our Chicago neighborhood.

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Tipping point: Can Summit put personalized learning over the top?

The Hechinger Report

Among people new to the Summit program, such scenes of silent, computer-based work can arouse worries that personalized learning means parking kids in front of screens. So it was with parents at one of the first Basecamp schools, Marshall Pomeroy Elementary in Milpitas, a small city off the southern tip of San Francisco Bay.