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New Pathways
How Teacher Beliefs Transform Student Outcomes: The Impact of Collective Educator Agency
[…] teachers collectively believe that all learners should be taught at grade level or higher, they provide learning experiences that challenge and engage every student. These educators differentiate their instruction to meet the needs of their students, enabling learners to develop ownership of their studies through increasingly complex levels of understanding. Break down barriers – The shared […]
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Leadership
Harmony’s Commitment to Microcredentials: A Close Look at their Professional Learning Experience
[…] microcredential offering, seeing a manner to apply it in your classroom or school, and developing an approach in conjunction with your respective administrator or coach. Director of Instruction for the school system Burak Yilmaz says, “this is a portfolio assessment… they get quality feedback on every piece they submit.” Jason Fletcher, Math Department, Harmony […]
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Leadership
Redefining Pre-Service Learning In The Virtual Age
Whether it’s modeling better virtual instruction, as well as increased emphasis on social-emotional learning, school leaders and professional learning facilitators are having to rethink how to prepare teachers for the school year.
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Topics
The Digital Learning Mindset
[…] to duplicate these efforts. Rather, our adult learners can potentially benefit more from support in building the soft skills needed for 21st-century success. When transitioning to online instruction, think about supporting learning instead of providing learning. How can we help students build skills like setting and monitoring goals, managing time, and developing new digital […]
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EdTech
Artificial Intelligence and Adaptivity to Strengthen Equity in Student Learning
[…] share our view of the important work that lies ahead. Educators’ AI Use and Development At a webinar hosted by our EngageAI Institute, Julio Vasquez, Director of Instruction and Human Resources at North Salem Central School District, shared how teachers at his school are partnering with AI to create powerful sample lesson plans. Specifically, […]
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Getting Through
How to Reopen Schools: A 10-Point Plan Putting Equity at the Center
[…] employee groups. State organizations can help facilitate and provide guidance for these conversations. If resurgence demands remote learning, schools must acknowledge the challenges teachers will face providing differentiated support remotely. Further, caregivers can face increased stress, reduced schedule control, and barriers to accessing academic language and lessons. Smaller group-based supports (e.g., follow-up, feedback, check-ins, […]
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Future of Learning
Is the End of Standards-Based Teaching Near?
[…] teacher-centric mindset that focuses on learning activities (worksheets, homework, packets, lectures, etc.) that barely worked in classrooms of captured learners. The opportunity to create a more student-centered, differentiated, and personalized learning approach is in front of us.” I wanted as well to tap the thinking of colleagues in the corporate world. Stephan Turnipseed, the […]
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Getting Through
5 Ways Face-to-Face Learning Will Need to Differentiate to Contrast Virtual Learning
The school closures this spring, along with the national efforts to deliver instruction online, has certainly challenged all stakeholders. There have been successes: implementing new technologies, a renewed focus on instructional and social-emotional priorities, creative lessons/projects, and increased parent engagement. Naturally, there have been potential pitfalls: technology access inequities, delivery of additional services such […]
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Equity & Access
Returning to School: Why Video Is Here to Stay
[…] recording some of your direct instruction plans for learners to watch as “homework” then spending class time diving into work and building understanding. Enriched Station Rotation. Create differentiated videos for each of your small group stations so students can watch a video that you created and be working on different review activities in their […]
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Personalized Learning
Personalized Instruction: The Key to Academic and Career Success
[…] and is empowered to discover and pursue the career path that best fits his or her interests, capabilities and goals. Utilizing education technology to personalize and differentiate instruction Everyone likes to talk about personalized learning that is focused on a student’s goals, but how do you expose kids to these things when their worlds […]
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