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UTAH SCHOOL PARTNERSHIPS PROVIDE MODEL FOR EXPANDING EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES

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To complement the blended course model, Juan Diego also offers concurrent courses through ASU Prep Digital, giving students the opportunity to earn college credits that will transfer to most accredited universities. Online education presented a new path to achieve that goal.

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?5 Invisible Barriers Preventing Change in Higher Ed

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A Culture of Smallness Brene Brown, an affective researcher and professor at the University of Houston, identifies vulnerability as the birthplace of innovation. Higher education institutions typically have, what I describe, as a culture of smallness. But making organizational barriers visible is the first step in breaking them down.

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In Elementary School, Many Teachers Have a Shaky Grasp of Math. Can Preparation Programs Change That?

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The list of explanations ranges from a math-avoidant culture to schools difficulties hiring and keeping talented teachers, a job that seems to have become harder postpandemic. Patterson also believes that blending courses that show teachers how to make lessons about math with content from the subject could also help with another issue.

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Will Hybrid Teaching Stick Around as the Pandemic Fades?

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It’s work that pays off, though, Rhoads argues, since it opens the course material to students even when they are sick or unable to attend, and the material can easily be reused over time. HyFlex is not the only way to make courses flexible, however. Which is completely 100 percent valid,” he says.

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