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In Utah, personalizing learning by focusing on relationships

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For the last three years in a row, it has been 97 percent, and the superintendent attributes the whole of that increase to the district’s efforts to personalize learning. At the heart of personalized learning is building a positive relationship with every student, every single day.”. And it opened Robins’ eyes. “The

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Can kids get passionate about learning — and develop the persistence to follow where it leads? One school has a plan

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In a Lego robotics expedition, fifth- and sixth-graders hunched over iPads trying to figure out how to make their robots move. During the Elm City expeditions, such persistence was evident. Children encountered problems and were driven to find solutions. A group of three appeared to be frustrated.

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Coronavirus becomes unprecedented test for teacher-student relationships

The Hechinger Report

In the meantime, some school districts have decided that providing virtual learning may not be worth the effort. Glick’s school gave out iPads and laptops to students who needed them, while committees at her school are going door to door to track down the non-responders.

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The messy reality of personalized learning

The Hechinger Report

Danusis and her teaching staff practice personalized learning, an individual-comes-first approach, usually aided by laptops, that has become a reformist calling card in education. Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. It looks unlike any school I ever attended. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter.

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Why decades of trying to end racial segregation in gifted education haven’t worked

The Hechinger Report

There are gifted dropouts. My parents made me make five paper airplanes at home so I would win this,” Sharmin, browsing videos on an iPad with classmate Mariah, said. Kaiden sat down next to them and Mariah pushed the iPad closer so he could see. Lookit lookit lookit! Five hundred feet!”

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Learning Revolution Free Events - The Conference - Next Up #Reinvent14 - Appreciative Inquiry and AERO

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Thursday, April 24th at 7am Learning Revolution Keynotes , Don''t miss Pat Farenga on "What is the role of the teacher when children learn on their own?" See the schedule in your local time at [link]. More information here. Designing Baseball Uniforms in the School Library.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Via The New York Times , a profile on the Indiana charter chain Excel Schools : “A Chance for Dropouts, Young and Old, to Go Back to School.” ” Via The Verge : “Teachers weigh in on Apple ’s push for more iPads in school.” ” This is my shocked face. .”