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Here’s What Happens When Every Student Gets a Personalized Learning Plan

Edsurge

She has since altered her personalized learning plan (PLP) to include the courses and experiences she’ll need to pursue a career in architectural engineering. High schoolers work on their plans once a week during Seminar, a 15-minute daily advisory period.

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The Makings (and Misgivings) of a Statewide Effort to Personalize Learning in Massachusetts

Edsurge

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. You can personalize learning just fine without technology. Sometimes, it is just a distraction.

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ISTE 2019: How Superintendents Can Lead Digital Transformation

EdTech Magazine

When former Vista Unified School District Superintendent Devin Vodicka sat down with students at Vista High School in California to hear how they would describe their school experience, he found there was a significant lack of engagement. “I What we found was that one of the most common words students used was ‘irrelevant.’”.

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How to Successfully Scale Personalized Learning: Six Key Lessons from Effective Programs

District Administration

District Administration, May 2015 Personalized blended and online learning programs have helped many districts provide access to more courses and to improve student outcomes. But how do you start a program and then scale it across your school and district?

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Micro-credentials for teacher PD: Why? What? How?

Neo LMS

In this way teachers earn micro-credentials that allow them to modularly build a living PD learning portfolio that is based more on actual competency than hour-credits spent in workshops or seminars. HOW to do this? Today Open Badges are issued by over 3000 organisations including IBM, Intel and NASA (yes, the NASA).

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6 Tips for making the most of ed tech exhibitions

Neo LMS

Drop by our Booth F302 in the expo hall at any time during the event, where we will provide insights on how to effectively manage online classroom activities, answer all your questions and showcase NEO’s newest features. To offer more personalized learning? So, how to solve this problem?

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Why Self-Directed Learning is Important for Struggling Students

Edsurge

To be prepared for success, struggling students need just as many opportunities to participate in self-directed learning and to develop autonomy as high-achieving students. I teach four sections of a reading seminar for first time freshman who have low MAP reading scores from eighth grade.

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