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10 districts that have seen big blended learning success

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Edgenuity highlights schools, districts implementing blended learning. As schools and districts try to better meet the needs of students with different learning styles, blended learning programs are becoming increasingly popular.

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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. The move to blended learning has been labelled as “disruptive” by many, such as Clayton Christensen in his book “ Disrupting Class.”

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6 tips from personalized learning innovators leading change

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The goal of the event was to focus on the practical elements of blended and personalized learning by surfacing the tactics that practitioners were deploying in the trenches. Innovators stressed that without effective change management, the best technology tools and the most elegant personalized learning models will come up short.

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When Is It Okay for Public School Officials to Attend Tech-Funded Events?

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Shawn Rubin, chief education officer of the Rhode Island-based Highlander Institute, an education non-profit organization focused on researching, invited Dance to his organization’s Blended Learning Conference earlier this year. The Blended Learning Conference is not the only event that offers stipends to educators to attend.

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Communications Tips for School Leaders

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There are many elements critical to the success of change management initiatives, including those involving blended and personalized learning. There are likely examples from within your district you can use even at the beginning, and you can grow that list of resources as blended learning spreads.

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Kiddom Helps Administrators Manage Change

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What Kiddom does that few other education webtools do is provide free educator and administrator guides on topics such as Standards-based Grading , Blended Learning , and lesson planning (click for my reviews of these). Their newest is the twenty-eight-page ISTE-aligned Change Management eBook.

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A Word of Caution Before Hiring a Director of Personalized Learning

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He offered me an opportunity to develop my own vision for personalized learning at the school and to design my role. Participating in the creation of a new position, leading the change management process, and having an office (even if it was shared) got me really jazzed about my transition.