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New Pathways
The Rooted School Network: Experiencing Success in College and Work in High School
Rooted Schools exist to provide “personal pathways to financial freedom" and is emerging as a national microschool network blending college credit, work experience and industry credentials (a nimble, next-gen P-TECH cousin) with strong supports in student-centered environments.
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Getting Through
How We Can Support Educators and Parents in the Midst of ‘Crisis Schooling’
[…] complete newcomer to get up-to-speed in mere days, let alone weeks. It’s why teacher-centric nonprofits and an entire technological ecosystem exist around it, enabling hybrid experiences like blended classrooms to fully virtual schools. This is something I know intimately well: I’m a former online teacher and school leader from the ‘early days’ of what […]
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Equity & Access
Preparing to Reopen: Six Principles That Put Equity at the Core
[…] with families and experts supporting the student.” To abide by this principle: Prepare for multiple scenarios in parallel: Prepare to transition students between scenarios of remote learning, blended learning, virtual learning, and/or alternating or parallel waves of each. Iterate between external guidance and operational preparations: Preparations should account for special education regulatory guidance, CDC public […]
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Future of Learning
On Spreading Learning Innovations: Pandemic Update
[…] promising early results, positive feedback other users, and the beginning of a community of practice. 2. Package: An innovation that involves a combination of tools and practices like blended and personalized learning that requires new tools and behaviors. A new opportunity (computers in the classroom) or compelling proposition inspires innovators that create new learning models–a […]
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Future of Learning
‘Voices Of A Learning World’ Aims To Be New Medium for the Global Redesign of Learning
[…] “How can we make sure PBL remains relevant in the face of the transformations in store for education in 2020-21?” “How can PBL flourish in a hybrid, blended, or distance environment?” “How do parents and business leaders ‘co-partner’ with schools to help PBL flourish?” “How can we encourage play-based learning as a foundation for […]
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Future of Learning
From Test Prep To Active Learning: The El Paso Transformation
[…] community partnerships in physical and mental health, safety, and learning opportunities. Business partners and philanthropies supported new academies. EPISD benefited from and contributed to statewide initiatives in blended learning and good governance. Pandemic Ready “It felt like we’ve been getting ready for this pandemic for five years,” said Assistant Superintendent Dr. Carla Gonzales referring […]
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Personalized Learning
The 12 Shifts for Student-Centered Hybrid Environments
[…] highly structured processes and ongoing formative assessments like process journals to monitor groups Use smaller group activities to help establish structures and norms for collaboration in your blended classroom Shift #9: Audience for Work. Teacher → Authentic, Public Audience Many teachers lament that remote learning has produced lower quality student work than the work […]
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Leadership
Scaling Active Learning: Professional Development Was Key to the El Paso Transformation
[…] its change management efforts, EPISD sought out other successful active learning models, including Houston’s Power Up initiative. They planned to provide tools, resources and training to support blended and personalized learning for both students and teachers. The targeted outcomes: to increase student engagement and bolster personalized learning, both of which can yield higher achievement […]
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Leadership
Active Learning: The Secret to El Paso’s Success
[…] deeper and double down on it,” said El Paso ISD Superintendent Juan Cabrera. Active learning means engaging and authentic experiences focused on critical thinking and problem-solving in a blended environment. EPISD added a focus on social and emotional learning and dual language proficiency. It began in 2013, with the appointment of an unlikely superintendent–a bilingual […]
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EdTech
Lifelong Learning is the Antidote to the Shifting Workforce
[…] digital literacy, and technology integration. They facilitate the Innovating Distance Education for Adult Learners (IDEAL) Consortium, which prepares members to better support their learner-workers by offering quality blended and distance learning opportunities within an adult basic skills education context. So how can adult education and workforce training programs adapt and innovate to ensure they’re […]
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