The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Fourth grade teacher Milton Bryant works with students in a small group during a blended learning session at Ketcham Elementary School. And a two-year-old professional development program called LEAP (for “LEarning together to Advance our Practice”) is being linked to greater achievement among students.

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Training Handbook Learning Blended Learning 60

EdTechTeam

JANUARY 19, 2018

We learned about, planned out, tried out, and reflected on blended learning station rotation that required a collaboration station. At our end-of-the-year meeting, we reported out our findings. Socratic seminars are just the activity for this. Well, my teachers and I worked on collaboration in our classrooms.

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Classroom Blended Learning Groups Google 52

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

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.

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Personalized Learning Learning Elementary Common Core 40

The Cornerstone for Teachers

MARCH 4, 2018

We use standards-based report cards, and you don’t want an average of everything they’ve ever done on the topic. Each unit has a Socratic Seminar, a research project and presentation and a traditional unit test with multiple choice and another written section based on the images and photos related to the vocabulary in the unit.

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Assessment How To Strategy Groups 72

The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2017

At Marshall Pomeroy Elementary School in Milpitas, California, Deanna Sainten leads sixth graders in a Socratic seminar about A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park while students at other tables work on book reports or online lessons in several subjects during personalized-learning time. Read more about Blended Learning.

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Personalized Learning Blended Learning Learning Common Core 81

Hack Education

JUNE 10, 2016

Nikki Haley of South Carolina has signed into law a measure that requires the state’s public colleges and universities to publish reports of conduct violations involving alcohol, drugs, sexual assault, and hazing at fraternities and sororities.” “ Columbia Drops SAT Subject Tests Requirement,” Inside Higher Ed reports.

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Education MOOC Company Report 48