Edsurge

MARCH 6, 2017

There’s a campus greenhouse that provides students with locally grown vegetables and the opportunity to garden. The curriculum, designed to serve the school’s exclusively Native population, emphasizes Navajo language and culture as much as it does the Common Core standards. A growing body of research supports McClennen’s claims.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 17, 2017

Teachers have had to get more creative in helping students understand new concepts, and students have had to take a lot more responsibility for their own learning. Sitting quietly at the back of the room is no longer an option in classrooms that prize student engagement. Instead of just saying, ‘Mr.

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Edsurge

MARCH 6, 2017

There are a lot of opinions and fads in education, and they are not serving students well. “In student needs vary greatly from one classroom or school to the next,” says Kevin Connors, Director of Personalized Learning for Chicago Public Schools. In every district throughout the U.S.,

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eSpark

JANUARY 5, 2016

These harsh punishments lead some districts to “teach the test” and prioritize third party assessment scores over student engagement and learning. Under ESSA, states will now be responsible for determining if schools are successful in meeting the needs of every student. educational policy: College and Career Readiness.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

Students at Rhodes Junior High in Mesa, Arizona, spend a portion of their school day working on laptops. Summit Learning’s personalized learning program is a key part of the school’s improvement efforts. Personalized learning is one of the most popular goals in schools today. MESA, Ariz.

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Learning Laptops Personalized Learning Data 122

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2017

In addition to fulfilling Common Core requirements, assignments are designed to help students learn critical thinking and workplace skills. Students engaged in a group history project, for example, might need to demonstrate that they have learned to collaborate and investigate. 442, teachers said.

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The 21st Century Principal

AUGUST 8, 2013

Once they embrace the necessary changes in pedagogy, they realize the need for change in the physical learning environment." What then, are those deep, underlying changes that need to be considered to move a school or district to an effective project-based learning model? Learning is more student-centered and student directed.

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techlearning

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

The collaboration will provide educators with more instructional options and a seamless journey to personalized learning for every student. for middle school has students engage in the engineering process to think like an engineer as they solve real-world problems related to the phenomena addressed in each unit.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2017

Stephen Downes works in the Learning and Performance Support Systems program at the National Research Council, a multi-year effort to develop personal learning technology and learning analytics. But it surged in big way in 2016, below the radar, but touching lives like never before.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Close CEO Using Facebook and Twitter as Online Classrooms: Connecting Educators and Learners Around the Globe - Pierre Moncal and Katrina Ingco - BEEd Special Education Undergraduate 8:00pm A Student-Led Virtual Technology Conference? A New Model for Collaboration!

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 22, 2020

17, Cardona addressed Connecticut educators directly, noting that the safety measures put in place have been sufficient to make in-person learning relatively low-risk for students and staff this fall. “If In an op-ed published Dec. DeVos was not in favor of extending that waiver into 2021—and neither, it appears, is Cardona.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The email, he said, detailed a “Priority 1 Alert” that had been issued by Pearson and the New Jersey Department of Education, regarding a student who had tweeted about a test question on the PARCC — a standardized test based on the Common Core State Standards. Stanford University psychology professor Carol Dweck.

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