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School Systems Sitting on Piles of Disruptive Data that Needs to be Exposed

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Nov 21, 2015

By: Nasha Fitter. Parents need more data points that impact student success, easier ways to find information important to them, and effective tools for creating change. The opportunity lies in big data. For this to occur, we must gather, index, standardize, and surface millions of currently unsearchable variables on schools.

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Influencing Chaos

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Nov 21, 2015

By: Sandy Maynard. We are discovering that chaos drives change, change drives transformation, and transformation is where learning is elevated to a higher level. The element of chaos will not (should not) be removed, it is part of the cycle.

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Broadband, Data Privacy, and OER: Building New Learning Models Infrastructure

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Nov 18, 2015

The shift towards highly personalized, mastery-based learning models will allow each student to customize learning trajectories toward college and career readiness. To drive this vision, we must narrow the “digital divide” and equip our schools with high-speed broadband connectivity.

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Culminating Passions: Student Leadership for School-Wide Change

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Nov 15, 2015

By Molly Irvin: How one student turned her passion for psychology into a school-wide, week long event to help diminish social stigma around mental illness.

Personalized Learning

Design Thinking in Action

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Nov 15, 2015

By Michael Niehoff: Design thinking helps create future innovators and breakthrough thinkers. Michael shares a few examples of what it can look like at the high school and elementary level.

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Teachers: No More Excuses, Get Blogging

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Nov 14, 2015

By Douglas Frankish: Blogging creates great opportunity for teachers and students. Here's the top 3 teacher excuses for not blogging with 3 reasons they should be.

Personalized Learning

Welcome to the Wonderful World of Self-Blended Learning

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Nov 14, 2015

By: Bernard Bull. A form of blended learning that was led and designed by the students instead of the teachers. You’ve heard of blended learning. You’ve probably read about self-directed learning. Put them together and you get self-blended learning,

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Improving Access and Equity in Blended and Online Learning

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Nov 12, 2015

By: Dale Frost. Blended and online learning can leverage the talent of today’s best educators with technologies that extend their reach and can personalize instruction at any time or place. Here's five policy recommendations that states can adopt to increase access and equity.

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Enriching the Path to Wisdom

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Nov 12, 2015

By: Bob Lenz and Jonathan Raymond. Project-based learning schools are enriching the path to wisdom, ensuring that students have access to engage in relevant and authentic project based work, are exposed to work in the real world and are learning social and emotional skills that support college and career readiness.

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What the Story of Asdiwal Can Teach Us About Competency-Based Education

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Nov 11, 2015

Effective and scalable CBE programs combine knowledge and application aligned closely to skills, expertise and industry expectations. Todd Hitchcock shares 5 key items that are imperative to those developing CBE programs.

	Beginning	Piloting	Implementing
From Fixed Standards to Competency-Based Mastery	BeginningFrom Fixed Standards to Competency-Based Mastery Beginning	PilotingFrom Fixed Standards to Competency-Based Mastery Piloting	ImplementingFrom Fixed Standards to Competency-Based Mastery Implementing
From One-Size-Fits-All to Adaptive Learning	BeginningFrom One-Size-Fits-All to Adaptive Learning Beginning	PilotingFrom One-Size-Fits-All to Adaptive Learning Piloting	ImplementingFrom One-Size-Fits-All to Adaptive Learning Implementing
From Prescribed Knowledge to Innovation & Inquiry	BeginningFrom Prescribed Knowledge to Innovation & Inquiry Beginning	PilotingFrom Prescribed Knowledge to Innovation & Inquiry Piloting	ImplementingFrom Prescribed Knowledge to Innovation & Inquiry Implementing
From Subjects as Silos to Transdisciplinary, Real-World Learning	BeginningFrom Subjects as Silos to Transdisciplinary, Real-World Learning Beginning	PilotingFrom Subjects as Silos to Transdisciplinary, Real-World Learning Piloting	ImplementingFrom Subjects as Silos to Transdisciplinary, Real-World Learning Implementing
From Schools as Self-Contained to Schools as Embedded in Communities	BeginningFrom Schools as Self-Contained to Schools as Embedded in Communities Beginning	PilotingFrom Schools as Self-Contained to Schools as Embedded in Communities Piloting	ImplementingFrom Schools as Self-Contained to Schools as Embedded in Communities Implementing
From Standardized Testing to Meaningful Assessment	BeginningFrom Standardized Testing to Meaningful Assessment Beginning	PilotingFrom Standardized Testing to Meaningful Assessment Piloting	ImplementingFrom Standardized Testing to Meaningful Assessment Implementing
From Institutional Ownership of Student Data to Student-Controlled Learning Wallets	BeginningFrom Institutional Ownership of Student Data to Student-Controlled Learning Wallets Beginning	PilotingFrom Institutional Ownership of Student Data to Student-Controlled Learning Wallets Piloting	ImplementingFrom Institutional Ownership of Student Data to Student-Controlled Learning Wallets Implementing

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