Place Based Education
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Future of Learning
To Reopen, America Needs Laboratory Schools
Eric and Erin discuss how laboratory schools are, and will continue to be, necessary to research and develop a more equitable future for all learners.
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Equity & Access
How Speech and Language Deficits Can Affect a Child’s Academic Success
[…] the words they hear and read. Within a classroom setting, this can impact their comprehension of new lessons or concepts, their ability to listen attentively and follow instructions, and their understanding of new vocabulary. Speech Disorders: Speech disorders encompass a wide range of conditions that can make it difficult for a child to create […]
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Future of Learning
Recalibrating Your Teacher Mindset
[…] activities. Districts are addressing home learning in a variety of ways and I am pleased to report my son’s teacher is providing an outstanding level of support and instruction. The assignments are driven by the standards the teachers would have been addressing if school was in session and used a variety of modalities to cover […]
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EdTech
The Pandemic & Literacy: Achieve3000’s Early Insights
[…] a pandemic is surfacing in meaningful ways. Recently, Achieve3000 released their findings from a dataset of over 1,300 public school districts representing 1.6M students learning remotely on their differentiated literacy platform. For the most vulnerable students, the early numbers look dire projecting upwards of 49% loss of academic growth measured in Lexiles. One graph from […]
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Getting Through
Making a Case for Science and Social Studies Through PBL in Distance Learning
[…] a context for learning. As we extend beyond just “maintenance learning” in these final months of school, as educators we will have to challenge ourselves to reimagine instruction so that students can master new concepts and remain engaged in their learning; and PBL driven by Social Studies and Science can provide that if we […]
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New Pathways
Team Teaching, Educator Retention and Education’s Next Workforce
[…] classrooms with two teachers either within a single subject or across subjects (ex. humanities). This model has existed within the system for many years with mixed results. Differentiated positions (associate, experienced, master teachers, etc) have been attempted and discarded due to reported inadequate planning and inequitable incentive (ex. Temple City Unified School District). Described […]
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EdTech
A Transformative School Year with AI
[…] surrounding the ethical use of emerging tech will continue next school year.” He believes that more edtech platforms will increase their integrations of AI-related tech to provide differentiated instruction and personalized pathways to every learner.” Check out his AI-themed Wakelet collection that he and colleague Lois Alston created. I believe that emerging technology has provided […]
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Competency-Based Education
Mindful Leadership for Change
[…] the trust that is required to innovate. Leaders and Managers Leading groups in varied places on the journey are similar to but not exactly the same as differentiated learning. With adults, this is their profession, they trained for this career. The more leaders are aware of the needs and wants of a group or individuals, the […]
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Future of Learning
Eric Sheninger’s Disruptive Thinking in our Classrooms: Preparing Learners for Their Future
[…] during the pandemic, no matter whether it was in-person and socially-distanced, learning from home–both synchronously, and asynchronously, or in some hybrid fashion where learners were engaging with instruction both in and out of their familiar learning environments. Sheninger hopes to redirect our energies to empower the same sorts of gains for students as we […]
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Future of Learning
Promoting Student Choice and Voice in Learning
[…] increase motivation for learning through the power of choice and voice. Assessment for learning helps us to keep students on track throughout our course and informs our instruction. Assessments should help students to be able to identify where they are on their learning journey and offer a variety of ways for students to show […]
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