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The blended learning model every district can try

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Public school districts can move to online learning in incremental steps — just one day a week. These days it seems most school-wide blended learning programs are taking place not in traditional public education, but in charter schools—for one big reason: Charter schools are able to essentially start from scratch.

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Universal Design for Learning and Blended Learning: Action and Expression

Catlin Tucker

Traditional textbooks or workbooks provide limited means of interacting with information. As schools think about making learning accessible for all students, it is important to consider how instructional materials allow students to interact with information. Need support getting started with blended learning or online learning?

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10 K12 education trends to look for this year

eSchool News

While there are still some privacy issues to address, assistive devices can update information published in outdated textbooks and give students a space to dive deeper into their own learning by asking questions and following up on their own curiosities. Growth of integrated learning. Expansion of blended learning.

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An Active Reading Strategy for Any Learning Landscape

Catlin Tucker

My mind was buzzing with how beautifully this could work in-class, online, or in a blended learning environment. I wanted to support teachers in thinking about leveraging this active reading strategy for any learning landscape, so I created the template below (with permission).

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New tools emerge to support schools’ digital transition

eSchool News

Knovation’s icurio delivers open educational resources (OER) and instructional tools to support personalized and engaging digital learning. A number of service providers are releasing resources to support the growing number of districts shifting from print to digital content as they implement one-to-one or blended learning environments.

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Database offers 1 million free resources and images in April

eSchool News

Students and educators will have access to a collection of more than 1 million online textbooks and image databases that can be used for instruction on subjects, such as social studies, the language arts, and science. Digital Learning and Tools Top News' Next page: More free resources offered.

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This district is using novel methods to teach familiar skills

eSchool News

A district graduate, the math teacher has been facilitating innovative team-building lessons through a blended learning model the district is piloting this year through Carnegie Learning. Joelle Cooper is right at home teaching geometry and calculus at Avella. “In the past, it was drill and skill.

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