The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

In another room, children rotate through learning stations, sometimes at screens, sometimes putting pencils to paper. 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. If every child had a computer or iPad, she could log into a customized cyberclassroom and learn at her own pace.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2019

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. 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. The bell schedule and academic calendar were seen as nonnegotiable; student learning is what varied.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 8, 2018

SAN DIEGO — Vista High School principal Anthony Barela had a vivid image of what school here could look like after a $10 million grant to reimagine learning: Rolling desks and chairs, with students moving freely and talking about their work. Vista’s trials and errors started when the school became an XQ Super School Project, with a five-year grant by the national nonprofit to bring a personalized-learning approach to this suburban district. Future of Learning.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

(From left to right) Sixth graders Mia DeMore, Maria DeAndrade, and Stephen Boulas make a number line in their math class at Walsh Middle School in Framingham, Massachusetts, one of 132 “Basecamp” schools piloting the Personalized Learning Platform created by the Summit charter school network. Some passionately believe that it can and must, while skeptics fear that personalized-learning hype has outpaced research into if and, importantly, how it helps students.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2015

students attend blended classes on campus and take online courses from home, and district educators say a personalized learning solution has had a positive impact in a number of academic areas. PGA partners with Fuel Education (FuelEd), which provides personalized learning solutions designed to enable schools and districts to implement successful online and blended learning programs. but rather ‘What do these individual students need to learn today?’”.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

And Shayla Savage, a middle school principal, said that when her students returned to in-person learning this spring, she noticed differences beyond just their math and reading progress compared to previous years. “We And so we always talk about it as ‘unfinished learning.’ ”.

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Edsurge

JULY 11, 2017

However, one school district hopes a personalized virtual school program will offer incarcerated learners a second chance. The K-12 school is a part-virtual and part-blended learning space—meaning students from all over the state can attend the virtual school (which serves over 1000 students, according to the principal Nelson Brown) and students within a 70 mile radius can participate in the blended version of the school (which has approximately 300 to 400 students depending on the year).

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MindShift

AUGUST 17, 2018

This story about personalized learning was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. SAN DIEGO — Vista High School principal Anthony Barela had a vivid image of what school here could look like after a $10 million grant to reimagine learning: Rolling desks and chairs, with students moving freely and talking about their work. More student control over learning.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 20, 2020

The coronavirus has in many ways become an unprecedented test for teacher-student relationships, forcing a readjustment of expectations without daily check-ins and in-person interaction, without tissues for tears, high-fives for a job well done or praise in front of classmates.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

And one district in particular, the Putnam County School System in Cookeville , decided to push student ownership over higher education learning even further—with an extensive, dual-enrollment college credit program for high schoolers. EdSurge: I am here with Sam Brooks, who is the personal learning coordinator for Putnam County Schools in Cookeville, TN. Sam Brooks, Personal Learning Coordinator. We do have some distance learning.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2018

Their changed view — and that of others who shunned Rogers and now want in — is driven by what seems to be a magic educational elixir: personalized learning. Philanthropists, state education officials, reform advocates — even charter school leaders — are examining personalized learning. But personalized learning raises big questions about educational equity. Could personalized learning spur an even more splintered society? Dan D.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2019

At the Telstar Freshman Academy in Maine, service learning is included as part of the curriculum. Bailey Fraser, 15 (left), and her stepsister Leah Kimball, 15, volunteer with Edible Bethel during their service learning block. Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Future of Learning.

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techlearning

JULY 3, 2018

With nearly 15 million students and almost 300K formative assessment items on our combined platform, the opportunity to personalize learning is groundbreaking,” said Adam Berger, managing director at Insight Venture Partners and chairman of the new Illuminate Education. We recognize the growing importance of providing insights that empower educators to personalize the support they provide to each student,” said Alisabeth Shearn, CEO of Alpine Achievement. “We

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2019

The Hechinger Report is collaborating with The New York Times to produce Bulletin Board, page 2 of the Times ’ s education supplement, Learning. Many teachers today try to give students more say in what and how they learn. Teachers create playlists for students to learn specific topics or complete projects; they may create one list for the entire class or customize it for individual kids.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

The Hechinger Report is collaborating with The New York Times to produce Bulletin Board, page 2 of the Times ’ s education supplement, Learning. PedsAcademy offers kids rare opportunities for engaging, high-tech learning while they’re at Nemours Children’s Hospital in Orlando. Learning through hospital stays. Aleshia Greene, Ella’s mother, worried about her daughter’s education when she learned that she had cancer.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2017

It is features like these that have helped former high school dropouts like Rocheli Burgos — and other students who have struggled in school — get a second chance at earning a diploma. All students need to be deeply known by the adults that are working with them to support their learning,” she said. Alternative schools are generally smaller and more personalized and have always operated by putting students’ needs first, she said.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 12, 2018

The Greenfield model uses some rather commonplace strategies, such as integrating online learning, small-group instruction and greater parental and community involvement. Where the model pushes boundaries is in the addition of learning experiences called “expeditions.” Expeditions aim to impart what Cayer learned by being around her father: a habit of pursuing expertise or passion, or both. It’s a hard thing to measure, but learning science suggests that this is the case.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 3, 2018

Related: Tipping point: Can summit put personalized learning over the top? But the University of Maine at Presque Isle (or UMPI) is one of the first public universities in the nation to use proficiency-based learning. Sign up for the Future of Learning newsletter. Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. One of the learning outcomes for Policing in the Community might be “to understand the laws regarding domestic violence,” Pearson said.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 16, 2018

The next school day and a just a few floors below, Miller is in the school’s biotechnology lab where students are learning the skills they would need for a job testing specimens for the presence of amalyse, the protein enzyme that breaks down starch into sugar. Essex Tech’s state-approved admissions policy considers prior academic performance, teacher recommendations and an in-person interview among other factors. HATHORNE, Mass. —

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Among students receiving special education services, 34 percent had specific learning disabilities.”. percent of persons with a disability were employed compared to 65.7 But the rest of Walker’s story is one we seldom tell: We find out that his struggles in school emanated from learning disabilities. For instance, work-based learning , an educational approach that makes use of the workplace or real-world projects to drive instruction, seems promising.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2018

The housing authority and the district, which manages the school, hired Big Picture Learning, a nationally recognized education nonprofit, to operate it. Vaux’s redesign stresses creating close relationships with parents and community members and ways for student learning to continue beyond the classroom walls. The new school, by contrast, would be a learning institution, where students could aim high.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 31, 2021

The next morning, he woke to an email announcing that in-person classes would be canceled for the foreseeable future. But learning from home was hard and her slipping grades threatened her plans. “I But despite her own challenges with remote learning, Jaden was not ready to give up.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2017

No more personal statements or constantly nagging Ms. He had experienced plenty of rejection while applying to colleges, but managed to learn from his experiences and move on. “If Higher Ed K-12 News achievement gap Charters Graduation and dropouts Higher education access Higher education affordability Immigrants and Refugees Personalized Learning poverty Race School choice

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Buffalo educators hoped Eve’s new program would give more children — particularly children of color — a chance at enrichment and advanced learning. There are gifted dropouts. Then there’s the question of personality, of what a gifted person is like.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 16, 2017

About three quarters of deaf and hard-of-hearing students in America are mainstreamed, learning alongside hearing students in schools and classes where sign-language interpreters are often in short supply. That reading deficit slows their learning in every other subject. Parents talking and reading to hearing children helps to develop the language- processing parts of their brains that will later help them to communicate and to learn. Read more about Blended Learning.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Related: A Spanish-English high school proves learning in two languages can boost graduation rates. Public displays of student learning are also natural in arts classrooms. This is important at the Muñiz Academy, where teachers try to connect student learning with the “real world” as much as possible. Related: “Deeper Learning” improves student outcomes. Sign up for the Future of Learning newsletter. Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Now Williams and school staff are heading back out into the field, trying to relocate the siblings and other children who’ve gone missing and reengage them in learning this fall. Related: Students can’t learn if they don’t show up at school. That personal connection is huge.”.

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The Christensen Institute

MAY 7, 2015

Public school districts began innovating with blended learning before most charter schools. According to surveys that Brian Bridges has conducted in multiple states, including California where blended learning is growing rapidly, more school districts utilize blended learning than do charter schools. And the pace of innovation with blended learning is picking up within school districts nationwide.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2020

What you learn in a regular high school in a year, you could learn here in six months.”. What you learn in a regular high school in a year, you could learn here in six months.” . Students spend 80 percent of their time learning from home.

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Where Learning Clicks

DECEMBER 8, 2015

Rose, a former high school dropout, is a professor at Harvard University. The post Design to the Edges appeared first on Where Learning Clicks. Outside the Classroom average students blended learning competency-based learning complex learning dimensions Design educational model educational system meet the needs of the average student personalized learning student needsI recently watched Todd Rose’s TEDx Sonoma County talk, “The Myth of Average.”

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2019

The cloud can serve as a force multiplier in achieving this goal, putting additional tools to enhance student learning directly into the hands of educators. They are developing a recommendation engine to leverage dropout rate data to predict and design interventions for at-risk students. After intervening and supporting approximately 16,000 students, dropout rates have decreased and test scores have improved.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 1, 2018

Five-year-olds learn about police officers, doctors, artists, teachers, bakers and farmers. Over the next eight years, until they leave the district for high school, they will cycle through learning about 54 different careers, including real estate agent, paralegal, dietitian, reporter, graphic designer, sociologist, urban and regional planner and financial analyst. Sign up for the Future of Learning newsletter. Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Over the past decade, school officials in Fulton County, Georgia’s fourth-largest school district, have experimented with so-called personalized learning , tried integrating English language learners into mainstream classes, and introduced high school-level courses in middle school. Students who sign up for AVID quickly learn that the most important utensil in the AVID kitchen is the big white binder.

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The Christensen Institute

AUGUST 11, 2016

Since the relaunch of our Blended Learning Universe (BLU) school directory six months ago, we have received several requests from school districts wanting to create district-level profiles—previously, only schools could create profiles. Districts can now share their high-level, blended-learning initiatives and results, as well as link to blended schools within their organizations so that users can see all the blended-learning activity across a district.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2017

His school and his state are trailblazers in personalized learning, a method that tailors instruction to students’ individual interests and learning speeds. Personalized learning advocates had big hopes for ESSA, enacted in 2015. In a personalized classroom, students are taught how to take control of their own learning, so that they can take different pathways to gain understanding of concepts. Sign up for the Future of Learning newsletter.

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