A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

We live in exciting times as unprecedented access to knowledge, research, and effective strategies at our fingertips can assist educators in creating meaningful experiences for students that align with both needs and strengths. One thing is for certain: learning is not linear. There is not one best or right way to personalize.

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MARCH 29, 2022

You ensure long-lasting results by having a clear view of what you want to achieve in your classroom. Today, it’s more important than ever to equip students with future-ready skills they can leverage later in their personal and professional lives. . In this article, we will explore the topic of SMART learning objectives in depth.

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Edsurge

MAY 22, 2017

Principal Chris Huckans believes that competency-based education (CBE) is one of the keys to the school’s success. Huckans says that Bishop Hall’s use of the Brightspace learning management system provides students with highly personalized learning pathways, which “allow them to innovate and experiment.”

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Neo LMS

MAY 10, 2022

Even if schools strived to offer the best support and equitable distance learning opportunities, this was not always possible. Not all educational institutions could properly equip all their teachers with technology to ensure a smooth remote teaching experience. What are learning gaps in education?

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Edsurge

JANUARY 3, 2017

Education buzzwords come and go, just as the fads they sometimes represent. For a variety of reasons, the buzz phrases also come to take on new meanings that were never intended originally, which makes it hard for educators, entrepreneurs and researchers to communicate clearly and hone in on what exactly they are trying to do and why.

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Neo LMS

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Students with special educational needs and/or disabilities are often overlooked in the grand scheme of education. One thing that I’ve been thrilled about is that technology and online learning have really supported these students to continue their education, even though the pandemic disrupted many systems and processes.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Marianne Beja had been in education for more than 30 years when she discovered personalized learning. I want to build a community of lifelong learners, and I think personalized learning is the way to do it. I want to build a community of lifelong learners, and I think personalized learning is the way to do it.”

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EdNews Daily

DECEMBER 6, 2019

If you ask a dozen educators to define personalized learning, you’ll no doubt get some enthusiastic answers, and all twelve will probably be different. The new-school answer to the definition of personalized learning is markedly different. Teachers can afford the attention needed for catching some students up.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 25, 2018

At its heart, personalized learning requires profound shifts in our thinking about education and schooling.” Personalized learning is not a new concept. Growth in learner variability and complexity in classrooms nationwide; 3. “We cannot teach students well if we do not know them well.

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Learning increases when lessons are concluded in a manner that helps students organize and remember the point of the lesson. At the time, this model was both a practical and effective means for planning direct instruction and was readily embraced as this was the primary strategy used in classrooms.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 5, 2023

Truth be told, when it comes to education, there is no perfection, no matter where quantitative and qualitative metrics reside. Whether you lead a district, organization, school, or classroom, you should always strive to get better. There is always work to be done and effective educators embrace this wholeheartedly.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 19, 2017

One of the biggest reasons for my growth as an educator has been competency-based learning. Personally, this required some hard change on my part because as a recovering perfectionist, it was really difficult for me to admit I’m not always right, or perfect, or anything else that a fixed mindset reiterates.

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 12, 2019

Let’s start with what personalized learning is — or should be — and go from there. Indeed, the concept has been conflated with other educational and ­instructional approaches that integrate technology : adaptive learning, blended ­learning , ­competency-based learning and differentiated learning, to name just a few.

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Neo LMS

MAY 18, 2021

Innovation in education is a must if we want to keep up with technology and global advancements. There has to be a paradigm shift in our approach to education. Teaching needs to be student-centered, but most of all, it should be based on the graduate profile. Mastery-based learning is a competency-oriented teaching method.

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Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2023

That’s because earning credit toward a diploma or degree typically requires students to spend a minimum number of hours receiving instruction in the classroom. The goal is to help more young people “lead purposeful lives” by shifting toward competency-based education, says Timothy Knowles, president of the Carnegie Foundation.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 1, 2015

In a typical Georgia school, kids like Sean Prisk would have to abide by a kind of classroom speed limit, forced to learn at the same pace as others his age. Sean entered Locust Grove Middle School as it was implementing “competency-based” learning, which tailors schooling to each child’s ability.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 29, 2016

Earlier this year, the Rhode Island-based Highlander Institute and the Clayton Christensen Institute teamed up to bring together a conference on blended and personalized learning in Providence, R.I. One tension in managing change across a classroom or an entire district is making the unknown an opportunity rather than a threat.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 8, 2022

As the world emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic and prepares for its first post-pandemic school year, the results of a new Khan Academy survey of teachers offers hope for a brighter future and, at the same time, reaffirms education’s deep commitment to staying laser-focused on recovery. Mastery learning can fill in the learning gaps.

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EdTechTeacher

APRIL 20, 2019

A core element of personalized learning involves tailoring students’ path and pace to their specific needs and interests. This practice is often coupled with the overarching philosophy of mastery learning, sometimes referred to as competency-based education. Key Resource 1: What Is Competency Education?

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TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 18, 2015

It’s Time For Personalized Learning In Education. by Michael Horn , Executive Director of Education at Innosight Institute and co-author of Disrupting Class. In March, Tom Loveless, a fellow at the Brookings Institution, took an outdated swipe at the logic behind moving toward a student-centered learning system.

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Neo LMS

JUNE 21, 2022

Academic achievement is the final goal of a student’s educational journey. However, to reach optimal results, students need several skills such as critical thinking, planning, self-monitoring, and problem-solving that they develop throughout their educational process. How can teachers spot executive function challenges?

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 1, 2021

But what about CEO and founder Sal Khan’s broader goal of changing the education system, by basing it more on mastery learning, not grades? So the system will know, okay, student A is part of teacher B's classroom. And intellectually, it makes a lot of sense to every educator. How is that part going?

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2021

As educators reflect on the disruptions of the past two academic years, they’re increasingly gravitating toward the kind of personalized, “move on when you’re ready” learning being practiced at Parker-Varney. Related: Vermont’s ‘all over the map’ effort to switch schools to proficiency-based learning.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2021

. — 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. Teachers rarely stand at the front of the classroom.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The certainty of climate change and likelihood of more pandemics and other large-scale disruptions leave us with questions about what the future of education will look like. We should use this moment to catalyze a digital transformation of education that will prepare schools for our uncertain future.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 22, 2019

Learning is personalized, based on school standards. In fact, in so many ways, it brings common sense back to education. Success in an MBL program is defined by the achievement of competencies , not intangible performance measures or student-to-student comparisons. Educational applications. What is MBL.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 10, 2015

Are you a K-12 educator or administrator? Do you think others could learn from the way you conduct ed-tech pilots to inform product decisions? Digital Promise is crowdsourcing best practices for piloting learning technology tools, and we want to hear from you! 8 PM ET, March 27, 2015. ” Mahnaz Charania. .

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

But for this to occur, the use of online learning shouldn’t just be to pipe in a virtual teacher that delivers more one-size-fits-none, whole-group instruction. If this is the case, although it’s better than the alternative—no teacher at all—it’s also a missed opportunity for deeper innovation.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

It’s a novel idea to consider what teachers want in this time of disruption and corporate education reform, which have by most measures failed our public schools. The list I have compiled below is a must read for school boards, parents, grandparents and anyone who cares about having a well-educated society.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 11, 2017

Every day at Digital Promise, we work with leading educators, researchers, and developers across the country to help close the Digital Learning Gap and improve learning for all. We’re excited for the opportunity to spread the word of what’s happening – and what’s possible – in education.

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Education Elements

JUNE 8, 2016

The Jaquelin Hume Foundation’s mission is to accelerate the implementation of high quality blended/personalized learning in America’s schools. All the while, it was obvious to me that urgent measures had to be taken to radically transform the educational opportunities America’s children had as they entered the 21st century.

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eSchool News

JUNE 23, 2021

June 22, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — IXL , the personalized learning platform used by more than 12 million students, announced that it has earned the Research-Based Design product certification from Digital Promise, an independent, nonprofit organization authorized by Congress to spur innovation in education.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2017

Does competency-based education hold the key to providing an equitable learning opportunity to every student? As she puts it, competency-based learning “gives students the chance. In this model, students learn at their level and move on to concepts when they have demonstrated mastery.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2020

Her teacher has embraced competency-based learning, which asks students to take more control in the classroom. average and they do even better than their peers in similarly wealthy school districts, according to the Educational Opportunity Project at Stanford University. MELROSE, Mass.

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Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2022

Some say it’s time to finally commit to scalable personalized learning. So many bright educators love teaching and love kids, but they're physically and emotionally exhausted. Focusing first on math and then expanding to ELA and science, its objective is to make personalized learning scalable.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

Even though it’s emerged as a national model for 21st-century rural education , it’s still difficult for a district like Piedmont to navigate the growing and expansive ed-tech marketplace. There is strong leadership from the superintendent and middle school principal, focused on using technology to power personalized learning.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 1, 2016

Related: How one educator broke rules, influenced a state law, and got all of his students to graduation. Education is the only market that forces its consumer to consume a product without justification of its benefit or variety in choice.”. In the field of education, however, this practice has been overlooked and undervalued.

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