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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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To Foster Social-Emotional Learning, First Confront Our Own Biases

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When I look towards 2019, I hope to see not only continued focus and development of students’ social-emotional learning, but also for teachers and staff members to seek out their own educational development surrounding their own identities and beliefs.

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Help Us Help You: How Schools Can Give Useful Feedback to Edtech Companies

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But after hearing from users who requested support with budget planning, the company created a new offering to help educators develop budgets with staffing and spending plans aligned to the right account codes. Consider the Company’s Beliefs Companies rarely like to say no to their customers.

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Teaching Excellence Through Mindful Reflection 

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Reflective teaching is examining one’s beliefs about teaching and learning and determining the alignment of those beliefs with what happens within your courses (Reflective Teaching, 2021). In addition, this helped participants learn about best practices and begin to think about how to teach and communicate differently.

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Teaching Excellence Through Mindful Reflection 

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Reflective teaching is examining one’s beliefs about teaching and learning and determining the alignment of those beliefs with what happens within your courses (Reflective Teaching, 2021). In addition, this helped participants learn about best practices and begin to think about how to teach and communicate differently.

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Helping Educators Reimagine AI’s Role in Transformational Learning

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GenerationAI Coalition Partners: Center for Black Educator Development Computer Science Teachers Association Indigitize Latinos for Education National Education Association Playlab A focus on equity and fairness must thoughtfully address the circumstances and backgrounds of all the students in our schools.

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I’m An Adjunct: What Do I Need to Know About Teaching? 

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Now, with nearly 20 years of teaching experience, and nine working as an educational developer, I know that while those planning steps are needed, they are not the most important. Teresa Focarile is the associate director for educational development at Boise State’s Center for Teaching and Learning.

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