A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

Regardless of the terminology used, these represent more personalized pathways that focus on student agency leading to empowerment and more ownership of the learning experience. I feel the best way to support educators is to show how it can be done under the same conditions by sharing practical examples.

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The Thinking Stick

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

You integrate AI technology in your classroom, hoping to enhance student engagement and learning. However, you find yourself overwhelmed with the vast array of AI tools and unsure of how to effectively integrate them. Terry’s interest in AI was sparked by its potential to enhance teaching and learning experiences.

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Hapara

MAY 12, 2022

You can also share specific texts with individual students or small groups to differentiate instruction and personalize learning. Learners will read about and discuss rules, decision-making and how to socialize in the classroom. Students will learn about Native American groups in different regions of the country.

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 6, 2023

Do you like being told or directed to do something a certain way even though you know it doesn’t align with your innate strengths, interests, or learning preference? It becomes even more of an obstacle to growth if you know how to demonstrate understanding but aren’t afforded different pathways to articulate a response.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 21, 2021

In my opinion, I learn just as much, if not more, from them as they hopefully do from me. During the spring of 2020, I connected with the Juab School District in Utah and began what would be two years of longitudinal work to help them take personalized learning to the next level. It worked, but it was far from personalized.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2018

In July of 2015, the district paid more than $400,000 for alignment, strategy and professional services from Education Elements, a for-profit personalized learning consultant, according to receipts obtained by EdSurge from the district. million to the firm for personalized-learning consulting services.

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Technology is developing at a faster clip than its adoption, and while some K–12 classrooms are innovating — by using drones in curriculum or digital tools to personalize learning — they remain isolated examples dotting an unequal landscape where, often, digitization is seen as an end in itself rather than a means to improve 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. With about a day planning, [teachers] shift right into distance learning,” Rooney said.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

While it’s fine to use a simple “Good morning, Joshua” greeting, consider teaching students how to say “Hello” in a variety of languages. Wrap up with short, clear directions for the next steps of class; for example, “After we return to our assigned seats, I’ll be introducing our lab activity for today.”. Problem: Bullying.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

The project typifies the mix of personalized and social learning that’s been a mainstay for 25 years at King, a founding member of a school network called EL Education. But there’s no common definition yet for what personalized learning actually is.”. And how to listen to each other.”. Crew is like family.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

At last February’s Board meeting, 10-year old Ryan inspired the adults in the room to see how tech can be leveraged for learning in a whole new light. Ryan had this chance to shine because of Fresno’s Personalized Learning Initiative (PLI), which has been fostering student voice, choice and collaboration over the last two years.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 20, 2022

Her daughter, whose name is being withheld to protect her privacy, learned from the living room couch or dining room table, and there was no chance for altercations with her peers in the hallway or on the bus. But in October, less than two months after returning to in-person learning in Sacramento, California, she was suspended again.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

This past week, we traveled to the Golden, Colorado to attend the Conference of Online and Blended Learning (COBL), put on by the iLearn Collaborative. Here is what we learned: In his opening keynote, Tom Vander Ark, CEO of Getting Smart, asked the audience, “Why student-centered learning?”

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Formed in December 2016 by the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (MESE) and the. LearnLaunch Institute , the Massachusetts Personalized Learning Edtech Consortium (MAPLE) functions as a professional learning community for 32 district members that aim to implement personalized learning.

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Edsurge

MARCH 26, 2018

After five years of teaching, most recently as a technology teacher at an elementary school, I was recruited for a role outside of the classroom. In 2017, I began a new position as the director of personalized learning at a public charter school serving students in grades 7-12 in Phoenix. This challenge was rooted in buy-in.

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Edsurge

JULY 8, 2020

This is all to say that we are living in a deeply stressful time where we are literally drawing the map of how to move forward. When looking at new solutions, consider teacher learning on two fronts: Teach social-emotional skills to adults, so that they can teach students. Social-emotional learning is not like math or language.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Magnet Elementary School , is excited about the prospect of redesigning traditional approaches to assessment and instruction. Here, the former elementary classroom teacher and math teacher advisor shares her thoughts on personalizing learning for individuals’ needs—and her school’s preferred platform for doing just that.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 15, 2020

As of late, I have been working with quite a few districts on personalization through a variety of blended learning strategies. My experience in this area began over three years ago, thanks to having the opportunity to coach teachers and administrators at Wells Elementary School.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 3, 2019

In an effort to personalize learning more and more educators are turning to blended learning strategies. When it comes to personalized learning , the “personal” should be emphasized. Content and process matter if the goal is to move to a more personalized approach through increased student agency.

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MindShift

JANUARY 26, 2021

The profiles are part of the school’s embrace of personalized learning, which centers on the belief that a teacher lecturing at the front of a classroom is a bad fit for today’s students. Personalized learning has, in recent years, become one of the most talked-about trends in education.

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User Generated Education

JANUARY 22, 2023

I still am an early adopter of technologies in that I believe many can benefit students in their learning. I still am an early adopter of technologies in that I believe many can benefit students in their learning. As I always do, I am exploring its use in my classes (elementary-level gifted education).

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

Now, before I go any further, it goes without saying that I see fantastic examples of sound pedagogical practice and innovative strategies that are leading to improved learning outcomes. Below are some general closure examples: Explain one thing you learned today. What was the most challenging concept, and why?

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MindShift

JULY 11, 2017

WILDER, Idaho — Eight years ago, the principal of Idaho’s Wilder Elementary School, Jeff Dillon, made a tough decision: He pulled his children out of the district high school to send them to private school. “I My kids begged me to come to summer school,” said Chantelle Mullins, a mother of two elementary school students. Dillon said.

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MindShift

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

President Biden wants most K-8 schools to be ready to go back to in-person learning by the end of April. The problem is teachers and administrators don’t agree on how to do it. The sticking points, according to WBEZ , include finding a public health metric that would trigger a return to all-remote learning.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 12, 2020

Such examples are Ford Motor, Toyota Foundation, and Toshiba. For example, Tufts University has already come up with a Master’s program for undergraduates who want to advance in a career as a STEM teacher or professor. Personalized Learning. How to Teach STEM Every Day. More on STEM.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 8, 2018

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. In response, they launched an experimental Personalized Learning Academy for 150 juniors and seniors deemed at risk of dropping out.

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User Generated Education

JUNE 8, 2017

Some makerspace activities may be focusing on how to use the resources available and may not be connecting the activities to the curriculum or around a real world problem. The educator can assist learners in the interview process including how to develop interview questions.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Students can perform a cool project in Minecraft (while learning probability), learn about water quality with a student leader from Flint, Michigan, or learn to program their computer and many more options. . Inside Tract , students create a personal learning path with meaningful projects to choose from.

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Edsurge

MAY 1, 2017

Piedmont Elementary in Alabama, we decided to finally try it. Technology was also providing a surplus of real-time data we still weren’t sure how to best use. We’ve also come up with set routines that can carry over from week to week, for example daily computer-based math-centered activities. Last year at. Co-teaching.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Welcome to the latest post in our series on blended learning. Previously, we’ve explored what blended learning is and delved into its strengths and weaknesses. We’ve also looked at practical examples of blended learning and how they are applied in various educational contexts.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2023

This story also appeared in Mind/Shift At a training session this summer, Pitts, a teacher at Oakdale Elementary in Sandy, Utah, learned why: The program works best when teachers supervise kids rather than sending them off to do exercises on their own. School districts will have to make choices.”

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 7, 2022

Episode 789 - The 10 Minute Teacher Podcast Graphic Design for Educators Sadie Lewis - Director of Instructional Design + Personalized Learning. How Typography Can help us read better Canva Canva Design School Adobe Fonts Sadie’s Design EDU Resources Non-Designers Design Book [link] Sadie’s Design Guide – bit.ly/sadiedesignguide.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Through a large-scale, multi-year, federal project focusing on early literacy, we were able to gather feedback from educators on how instruction has been going this school year. Teachers are relying on parents to foster consistent home learning environments. We learned [that] parents were learning as well as the kids.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 12, 2018

It helps explain the step-by-step nature of coding,” says Todd Burleson, resource center director for this Winnetka Public Schools District 36 elementary school. My personal learning network is key to my success with integrating robots into our activities,” Innes says. “I to teach kindergarteners the basics of coding. “It

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

Kathy Neumann’s third graders at Longfellow Elementary School in Columbia, Maryland, struggled to understand fractions during this pandemic-disrupted school year. With remote learning, they couldn’t do their usual classroom activity of cutting strips of construction paper into halves, quarters and thirds. Read the series.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

APRIL 4, 2021

On the other hand, Alisa, an elementary school teacher from Massachusetts, says that building outdoor learning spaces in her school lead to a stronger community as everyone came together to make it happen for the kids. Case Study #2: Alissa, 1st Grade Teacher at Leverett Elementary School, Dorchester, Massachusetts.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2019

When Destiny Reyes started elementary school, she felt highly motivated. Like most young children, she liked learning new things, and she excelled at school. Ninth graders who have spent their whole life being told what to learn, some of them don’t even know what they’re interested in because they haven’t been given the opportunity.”.

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