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

The Hechinger Report

. — On a morning this fall at Washington Elementary, a young boy, sitting at a table with five of his peers, held a tablet while he built a digital snowman — a cool proposition given the 85-degree heat just outside his air-conditioned classroom. Credit: Charlotte West for The Hechinger Report. Ushering in a new model.

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95 Phonics Core Program® Earns Product Certification from Digital Promise for Research-Based Design

eSchool News

In addition, the company also demonstrated its commitment to making its robust research base clear and accessible to the public. Through Product Certifications, consumers can narrow their options as they select products based on research about learning before trying them out in their classrooms.

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OPINION: Why we need a new pedagogy for our post-Covid future

The Hechinger Report

Tech companies are circling like vultures , selling their quick fixes to exasperated school systems, and understandably the debates about school sanitization and safety are more impassioned than those about post-Covid pedagogy. Related: Why a high-performing district is changing everything with competency-based learning.

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

eSchool News

As reporter Linda Jacobson noted in the article, online learning has long been used in schools for subjects they couldn’t otherwise offer. According to Jacobsen, “as districts struggle to fill teaching vacancies, they are increasingly turning to companies like Proximity to teach core subjects.” She cited A.P.

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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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Pearson Efficacy Study Highlights the Challenge of Letting Students Retest

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The Pearson Study In what was described as an effort to build transparency around their products, Pearson’s CEO, John Fallon, issued a directive for the company to run externally audited public efficacy tests on the firm’s third-party edtech applications.

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Innovative School District Seeks Middle School Science and Social Studies Apps

Digital Promise

WHAT: Piedmont Middle School is seeking to pilot digital learning programs that support competency-based learning in science and social studies. Inquiry-based approach with project-based and problem-based learning activities. The results of that pilot will inform future purchasing decisions.

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