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Identifying the Top Four Challenges in K-12 Education

Digital Promise

Across the country, schools are adopting new approaches to teaching and learning in order to prepare students for life in a technology-rich world. Challenge 1: Creating opportunities for authentic learning. It takes time, strategy, and rethinking professional development.” Why is this important?

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The Four Biggest Challenges to Implementing Maine's Proficiency-Based Diploma

Edsurge

While we do have world language teachers in the high school, our limited staff, rural location, and decreasing budgets make it a struggle to support all students in meeting this graduation expectation. My district has been experimenting with a revolutionary concept of aligning computer science and coding to world languages.

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Curriculum Design is Emotional Work—This Teacher Makes It Easier

Edsurge

competency-based (a.k.a. standards-based) school for at-risk youth, pre-packaged curriculum and assessments offered very little flexibility for personalization or modification. The content was prescriptive and standardized, which meant taking it apart to meet student needs sometimes took longer than just making it myself.

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What do at-risk students, English language learners and adult college students have in common?

The Hechinger Report

Many administrators at public schools say they are using strategies to “personalize” learning, giving students the chance to tackle coursework at their own pace or have a greater say in what they study. Many have turned to competency-based education, known as CBE, to reach the increasingly important returning adult learner.

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

The Hechinger Report

The only goal is to learn the material, sooner or later. The strategy looks different in every classroom, as does the material that students must master. They get frequent updates on which skills they’ve learned and which ones they need to acquire. Switching to mastery-based learning requires a great deal of coordination.

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WHAT’S NEW: NEW TOOLS FOR SCHOOLS

techlearning

www.getalma.com ) Alma Technologies has announced it is allowing any SQL-based business intelligence tool, such as Tableau and Jaspersoft, to access data from its modern, student information system and learning management system. Software & Online ALMA TECHNOLOGIES, INC. TCI BRING SCIENCE ALIVE!

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A school once known for gang activity is now sending kids to college

The Hechinger Report

At that time, more than 80 percent of students were failing to meet state proficiency standards , and the school was graduating less than half of its students. On a recent fall afternoon, Norris sat among her department colleagues in an empty science classroom for a weekly strategy meeting to develop the new curriculum. “We

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