Learning Design

Redesigning School: Six Key Pillars From Six of the Most Innovative Schools and Programs

In the midst of an unprecedented pandemic, everyone is scrambling to ‘re-imagine education.’ Home learning pods have surfaced to create smaller, tight-knit communities of learners. Hybrid programs have emerged to blur the lines between home and school. And new remote programs with innovative tech tools are being introduced worldwide to enable learning to take […]

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Future of Learning

Eight Ways New Schools Innovate

With the rapid global shift to hybrid and remote learning, there is a renewed interest in new school models. Highlighted are eight ways schools are innovating.

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Personalized Learning

The 12 Shifts for Student-Centered Hybrid Environments

With remote and hybrid learning staying on the horizon, it's critical to understand: how have expert education practitioners worldwide successfully adapted their practice in the uncertain education climate?

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Difference Making

Schools Alive With Possibility

[…] creative problem solving, inviting students to take on society’s greatest challenges while promoting innovation and entrepreneurship. Connected Learning After revealing inequities, the pandemic accelerated connected learning–tech enabled blended learning with more take home devices and better access to broadband. And, while challenging during remote learning, interest in active learning–inquiry-driven, project-based, often community connected experiences–continued to […]

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New Pathways

Building an Education Innovation Index

[…] learning model, when used effectively, can enhance and support learning model implementation and resultant learning experiences. Core technology stack understood by all including LMS that supports the learning model. Blended learning strategy. Use of virtual and augmented reality. Technology to store comprehensive learner records. All learners, educators, and other staff have access to a connected device both […]

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Future of Learning

Five Building Blocks in the New Architecture of High Schools

[…] flipped learning are becoming more common in high school. A growing number of high schools and colleges (including ASU) use ALEKS in a blended math workshop model.    Blended learning supports more autonomy like the gradual release model at Huntley High where on-track students attend class two days a week. Blended models can also facilitate individual progress […]

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Future of Learning

Start Smart: Resuming Learning After COVID Learning Loss

[…] As educators, we never thought it would be like this. A pandemic. A massive school shutdown. The American public has learned to speak our language: virtual learning, blended learning, in-person learning, rotation model, cadres. At any other time, that would be an amazing achievement. But at the moment, we are finding these terms used generally in […]

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Leadership

Can’t Miss Education Conferences in 2024

[…] Master Teachers, PLTW partners, classroom vendors, and peers. Aurora Symposium November 3-5 2024; New Orleans, LA Aurora Institute’s annual conference is the leading event for K-12 competency-based, blended and online learning. With hundreds of sessions, it brings together experts, EdLeaders and educators to explore next-gen learning for K-12 students. Here are 10 reasons to […]

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Place Based Education

A Spatial Paradigm for Thriving Learners

[…] want to be abundantly clear. We are not suggesting that it is impossible to have a great school that uses the conventional spatial paradigm. We know high-quality learning can happen inside conventional environments, and incredible educators around the world overcome spatial barriers every day. However, if we have different priorities for our schools in […]

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