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What Does It Take To Successfully Implement Personalized Learning at Scale?

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By creating more flexible, student-centered classrooms, personalized learning empowers students to take ownership of their education, developing the skills they need to thrive both academically and personally. We've branded our district with the belief that there’s no average student; every student has a jagged learning profile.

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Why Building a Diverse Workforce Requires Computer Science Mandates in Schools

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There’s also no coherent set of curricula and pedagogical resources to inform instruction as for other subjects such as literacy or mathematics; some refer to CS education as the “wild west.” White and Asian learners, for instance, are between 1.3 and 2 times more likely to attend school with a robotics club.

Science 148
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6 ways to make your blended learning PD more successful

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“Just do it” may be an effective slogan for a sporting shoe company, but it is not an effective change management technique to move to blended learning. These may be successful educators from within the organization (“show and tell” can be powerful) or from outside the organization.

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Smart Sparrow Raises $4 Million to Help Teachers—Not Tools—Drive Adaptive Learning

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More than 20,000 online courses have been created by over 8,000 educators, the company claims. Today, Smart Sparrow closed an additional $4 million in its third funding round, this one led by Moelis Australia Asset Management, which contributed $3 million in the deal. His company has attracted big dollars from investors as well.

Teachers 133
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Campus Tech 2016: Recognizing—and Questioning—“Inevitable” Futures

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Here are some of our biggest takeaways from the marathon event: INNOVATION OR TRANSFORMATION IN EDUCATION? RISK, LOVE AND TECHNOLOGY: Amy Collier , associate provost for digital learning at Middlebury College, spoke in the closing keynote about the roles of risk and love in education. “We AN EXPLOSION OF CONNECTIVITY”: Kokoon.

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Why a High-Achieving District Keeps Tinkering With a School Model That Already Works

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It’s a well-worn idiom, which shapes the belief systems of too many schools and districts across the country. We engaged in a six-month research project to figure out what specific practices we could change to help us better prepare students for the modern world. We’ve all heard the old cliche, “If it’s not broke, don’t fix it.”

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3 common misconceptions that thwart school improvement

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Recently, my colleagues and I released a research paper that unveils common misconceptions about change management in schools. Given that many school initiatives falter for lack of teacher buy-in, we set out to uncover what actually causes teachers to change their practices.