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Personalized Learning
ACT’s ScootPad Scoop-Up
[…] flexible design. Starting with a diagnostic and continuing at the learner’s pace through new material, ScootPad is always assessing. All this happens under the purview of the teacher and in a scalable manner across the roster for each student. Sanchez distinguishes the tools that ScootPad has designed to be student- and parent- friendly too, […]
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Getting Through
The Difference Between Grades and Feedback Has Never Been More Clear
[…] posting grades on PowerSchool. The time-consuming nature of providing written comments on every single assignment a student completes is too much for me, or probably any other teacher. There was little to no formative feedback. Not so any more. I still post assignments on Sunday night and expect them completed by Friday at midnight. […]
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Personalized Learning
7 Options for Exploring Creative Arts for Remote Learning
[…] work that we do and in our strive to find balance and ways to keep the learning going and meaningful activities to engage in. As a language teacher, I try to find unique learning opportunities for my students that help them to connect more with the culture of the language that they are learning. […]
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Future of Learning
Leaning into the Innovation Opportunity
In preparation for the next school year, school leaders need to be mindful of three innovation opportunities focusing on the success skills of thriving humans.
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Future of Learning
What is Really Keeping Us Apart Right Now? Bringing Home and School Together
[…] on the same timeline somehow. For a long time before crisis schooling and staying at home, I worked in education for about fifteen years- as a classroom teacher, a school leader, a coach and consultant, and on the national team of an education nonprofit, Big Picture Learning. I would say that “education redesign” has […]
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Leadership
Student Leadership: The Ultimate Course for Career and Life Readiness
As a high school teacher, I learned early on that teaching electives had huge advantages. One, students chose to be there so there was a distinctly different mindset. The other was from the instructional vantage point. It seemed that electives offered the teacher all of the things that great teaching and learning should have: […]
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Competency-Based Education
It’s Time to Reassess Our Understanding of the 4Cs
[…] wonder how I would have taught my wife, who is not all that different from the students I have mentored in my 11 years as a K-12 teacher. My current classroom is dominated by Latinx students (90 percent) but I have over the years taught students from Africa, Asia, Europe, and South America. Surely, […]
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EdTech
Choosing the Right Tools for Amplifying Learning Through PBL
[…] some methods that we got away from. Project-based learning (PBL) is something that I believe worked well during this time, regardless of content area, grade level, or teacher experience with PBL in the classroom. I also believe that it will allow for smoother transitions in the event we have to shift throughout the upcoming […]
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Future of Learning
Building School and Classroom Community During Distance Learning
[…] to exciting experiences, and settling into new surroundings. In schools across the country, there is common, palpable energy that fills hallways and classrooms and unites students and teachers. These shared experiences and feelings work to set the context for building relationships among students and teachers and provide the foundation for learning and growth in […]
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Personalized Learning
Why SEL is More Important Than Ever: Meeting SEL Needs Virtually
Rachelle Dene Poth shares ideas for promoting SEL in distance learning.
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