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#2: 10 education trends for 2018

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Currently, the average student completes 112 mandatory standardized assessments between grades Pre-K to 12, which equates to 20 to 25 hours of standardized testing each year, according to a report from the Council of Great City Schools. And gone are the days of waiting minutes between presentations.

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Reinforcing the standardized model of low-level learning and schooling

Dangerously Irrelevant

For instance, we’re discussing laws and policies (that emphasize standardized data), screening instruments (based on standardized data), ‘evidence-based interventions’ (based on standardized data), progress monitoring (based on standardized data), and data-based decision-making (based on standardized data). . To which I say, ‘Meh.’

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How Transcend Education Partners with School Leaders to Build New Models

Edsurge

They also believe schools need intensive support as they experiment, take risks, and test out changes to their currently functional models in order to find and sometimes create astounding models. Finally it helped the school leadership team figure out how to test out what was working on a whole-school level.

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Campus Tech 2016: Recognizing—and Questioning—“Inevitable” Futures

Edsurge

Audience participation was required: Alexander challenged his audience to work in teams and put their predictive prowess to the test. Collier also spoke about the role of love in educational experience, and that it, too, is a valuable frame often missing in higher-ed discussions and institutions. AN EXPLOSION OF CONNECTIVITY”: Kokoon.

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Driving Change to Personalized Learning? Here’s How Three Leaders Have Done It

Edsurge

Ahead of our 2018 EdSurge Fusion conference in October, we sat down with three attendees to discuss the secret sauce of what is working in their communities. Creating teacher buy-in for personalized learning Change management can be a lonely process.

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The Role of VPEM as Change Leader: A Q&A with Auburn University’s Dr. Joffery Gaymon

EAB

“We’re in the business of changing lives.” JG: I think it's interesting that your topic of discussion is change management because that’s what enrollment leaders do. Being a change agent, managing change and expectations falls in line with the nature of the beast. It’s a great book.

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How to Recruit Adult Career Switchers

EAB

EAB’s Beth Donaldson and David Kuehl discuss how to reach prospective graduate school students who are looking to switch careers and enroll in business programs that may be very different from their undergraduate field of study. BD: And I think really thinking about this population, there's not a set persona, right?

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