Edsurge

JUNE 1, 2020

It turns out young adolescents are extremely capable of engaging in self-paced, blended learning. Last summer, we, along with other members of the sixth grade teaching staff at our school, adopted the Modern Classrooms model. In fact, the traditional way of teaching was what wasn’t working for us.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Because training and time are key barriers, schools should look for adaptive learning solutions that are easy to use and implement, and that generate easy-to-understand data and insights, which help to make instruction that much more targeted and effective. About the Presenters.

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Edsurge

JULY 2, 2020

Left: A third grader works on adaptive software in a station rotation blended learning classroom; Right: A third grader designs her own company logo as part of an assignment from her Google Classroom playlist. Allowing some students to work from home will decrease class sizes even further, which could save lives.

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 11, 2019

MORE FROM EDTECH: See how blended learning programs like Microsoft Teams and Google Classroom can benefit K–12 education. Just as educators should be mindful of distractions in a physical space, they should also pay attention to the quality of digital classroom environments and assignments. . by Jennifer Brown.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2017

Blended learning in credit-recovery courses and alternative schools—areas where students would often have no brick-and-mortar options—has gotten a bad rap because of questions about the rigor of the online learning experience. Sweat the school culture Culture matters more than technology.

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Edsurge

MAY 16, 2017

The term “grades” has become almost taboo among some educators in New Hampshire, where seven elementary schools are slowly ditching the word altogether through a program known as. New Hampshire schools participating in NG2 represent urban, suburban and rural parts of the state.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2016

The Innovation Lab , at New Jersey’s Fair Haven school district , is our 5th and 6th grade STEAM creation. The lab is a blended-learning shared space where students can choose pre-made projects and design challenges from our four pillars—Computer Science, Engineering, Digital Arts, and, now, Entrepreneurship.

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Edsurge

MARCH 26, 2019

AUSTIN, Texas — Even in elementary school, Luz Annette got into a lot of fights with other girls. Students in RJ are expected to keep up with their regular class work, which is supported by a blending learning program the school instituted in the second year of RJ, after the teachers observed that students were falling behind.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Rogers Elementary School in Texas get an unusual introduction to technology. Rogers Elementary is one of 10 “wall-to-wall” personalized learning schools that recently emerged as part of an initiative at Dallas ISD—one of the largest school districts in the country, serving 157,000 students.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 23, 2021

She was the 2000 Georgia Teacher of the Year and served as president of the Professional Association of Georgia Educators (PAGE), Georgia’s largest education association. Dr. Mary Grace is the assistant superintendent for education services at Anaheim Elementary School District in California.

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Edsurge

JUNE 13, 2017

Yet I can easily tell you the name of every one of my teachers dating back to elementary school. I may not recall who taught me which specific reading or math concept, but I vividly remember how these educators made me feel. Being a blended learning charter school, we had plenty of data.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2018

We must get out of the “catch-up” business, where we’re trying to fix problems when a child reaches the end of elementary school or middle school. If we could do only one thing, I’d put my last dollar into early childhood education. I’d go substantially higher (in class size) to give my child access to a great educator.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2017

For example, imagine that you are an elementary school principal who is looking for opportunities to strengthen specific third grade math skills in the new school year. In doing so, you accentuate the strengths of individual teachers and expose other teachers to new styles and ideas in bite-sized chunks.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 25, 2017

As we wind down another year of chronicling education technology, we wondered: Which stories made the biggest impact? This year, you looked to trendsetting districts, thought leaders, tech giants and one very sage high school student to help make sense of rapid changes in education technology.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

The training was led by the Innovative Learning Department and representatives from Canvas, and it was designed to teach us everything we needed to know to use the tool effectively to incorporate blended learning in the classroom and to create digital citizens who are college and career ready.

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Edsurge

MARCH 17, 2021

How might we design learning experiences so that students in any environment get equitable learning opportunities? Personalized Learning Preparatory at Sam Houston Elementary School in Dallas reopened its school building to PreK-5 students with simultaneous learning in the fall after months of remote learning. “I

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Edsurge

MARCH 26, 2018

It’s also the fact that when a school hires a singular position to own a large change, it sends a message that one person owns the responsibility to change practices across an entire staff. After five years of teaching, most recently as a technology teacher at an elementary school, I was recruited for a role outside of the classroom.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

This past week, we traveled to the Golden, Colorado to attend the Conference of Online and Blended Learning (COBL), put on by the iLearn Collaborative. The solution decreased discipline needs, and the school went from nearly losing its accreditation to receiving Colorado’s highest ranking a school can receive in just two years.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Jeffrey Tsang and Samir Bolar co-founded Mastery Design Collaborative (MDC) in 2013 with funding from the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation and The Learning Accelerator. In January 2016, ASCEND was one of six schools that won a $350,000 grant from the Rogers Family Foundation to launch its blueprint.

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Edsurge

APRIL 14, 2017

Because of this long history of schools denying the value of home culture, many parents view schools as painful places, and many students view schools as irrelevant. The result is a school that is not only welcoming and relevant to families, but truly personalized.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 29, 2017

Download and examine Ed Elements’ three models for elementary schools and its three models for secondary schools.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

Cicely Day works in Oakland, California at Burckhalter Elementary School as an instructional teacher leader, where she helps support teachers and students in ELA/math and in the computer lab. And when it comes to incorporating making into everyday curriculum, Cicely Day and Knikole Taylor are experts.

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Edsurge

JULY 7, 2016

In fact, assistant Superintendent Shawn Carlson points out the one of the most successful uses of iPads in Boothbay has been in assessments. iPads allow students to easily collect images, audio, or video of student work and performances—all on the fly—which can then be preserved in digital portfolios.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

To the other 13 school/district case studies, click here. During 2009, then-Superintendent Darwin Stiffler and Associate Superintendent Duane Sheppard of Yuma Elementary School District One in Arizona had just taken their positions and were trying to figure out how to meet students’ needs.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 1, 2017

The CEO of a tech company doesn’t address the whole company to solve every problem, so I ditched whole group instruction in favor of the station rotation blended learning model in order to meet the needs of all of my learners. Claire Cummings' Third Grade Classroom, Image Credit: Claire Cumming.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 30, 2020

The pandemic interrupted the launch of our district’s strategic plan, designed to improve student learning. We are incorporating blended learning strategies from pre-K through 12th grade and have embedded learning coaches to support this effort. Virtual learning has become an exciting new option for our students.

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Edsurge

MAY 27, 2017

Jessie Woolley-Wilson is a quietly powerful force in education. For the past six and half years, she has led DreamBox Learning , growing the company from a startup into one of the leading providers of online math tools for elementary school children. It's a human learning environment.

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eSchool News

MAY 28, 2025

As the principal of a mid-sized urban elementary school, I work hand-in-hand with my teachers to surface and implement the strategies and tactics we believe will benefit the diverse learners in our school. Among the most effective strategies my team and I have implemented is blended learning.

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