Place Based Education
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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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Future of Learning
Addressing the Challenges of Remote Learning for Emergent Bilingual Students
Remote instruction is a particular challenge for emergent bilingual students or English learners (ELs). Many of the language supports and resources that emergent bilingual students rely on in the classroom are as accessible, including physical responses, word walls, gestures, and turning to a partner. Face-to-face interactions are critical for these students. It has been […]
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Competency-Based Education
CBE: Getting Started with Learner-Centered Practices with an Equity Lens
[…] both English and Spanish. She has held the roles as Learning Facilitator (teacher), Director of Preschools, Principal and now serves as the Executive Director of Curriculum and Instruction. She shared the story of LUSD and how their vision and strategic design began (list sources) and continues the work with the visual you see today […]
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Equity & Access
Having our Cake and Eating It Too
[…] each teacher identifies the unique combination of talents/strengths, interests, and other crucial needs of each learner. A strong teacher-learner relationship is imperative to success. Assessment Assessments serve instruction, not the other way around. Accountability Accountability moves from a compliance-based system to a best-benefits system. The system is accountable for how it meets the learning […]
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Leadership
3 Ways to Reimagine Professional Development in Districts
[…] adopt technology. At Concord Community Schools the transition in professional development began as the district explored the power of the Modern Classrooms Project (MCP) framework as an instructional shift in classrooms. The model centers on blended instruction, self-paced learning and mastery-based grading, as opposed to a traditional lecture-based model. Using the model, teachers leverage […]
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Future of Work
The Future of Work: Assessing Skills Essential for Success
[…] have been used by over 800,000 students worldwide, provide accurate, reliable insights into students’ critical thinking, problem solving, and written communication abilities so that educators can plan instruction, programs, and supports to help their students’ develop these essential skills. Employers have long sought these competences and recognized their importance. Current measures of academic success, […]
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Equity & Access
School Systems Lack Capacity to Support Data Driven Decision Making, National Survey Finds
By: Susan M Bearden Data can be a powerful tool for driving educational equity. Whether used by a classroom teacher to improve instruction, by school administrators to identify students at risk for dropping out, or by district, administrators to identify students with the potential to succeed in advanced classes, data can be leveraged to […]
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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
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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Getting Through
Getting Through: Multi-Mode Literacy
The instruction of literacy has been thrown into an immediate adaptation to remote teaching. This new, multi-faceted experience of reading, writing and comprehension is Multi-Mode Literacy.
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