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Getting Through
Movement in a Time of Isolation: Music and Dance
[…] who teach special areas such as the arts, music, and elective courses, I can imagine that the initial shift to remote learning was even more difficult. Providing instruction in these special areas which rely on hands-on activities, specific equipment, and class demonstrations would present a challenge in planning for remote instruction. As a Spanish […]
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The Story Behind The Laboratory School Open Iconography Library
[…] faculty, and staff members for the school year on August 19, 2020 for our in-person orientations and on September 8, 2020 for the full slate of in-person instruction. Given that we aim to serve all students—including the highest need students, regardless of their English language proficiency or disability—our push was to develop visual language […]
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Personalized Learning
Personalized Learning Is Special Education and the Time Is Now
[…] every day? Why can’t their learning experience be more tailored, leveraging their strengths and interests? For over 40 years our nation has authorized an individualized program of instruction for students with disabilities and while there is certainly much to be said about ensuring quality in all special education systems, we can learn a lot […]
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What’s Working During COVID
[…] and resilience during this time of uncertainty.” Active Learning Active learning is always an important goal. In order to achieve learning engagement, it’s critical to think about instruction design. According to Kelsey Derringer, the Co-Founder of CodeJoy LLC, ” The job of an educator is not to simply transmit information, but to design educational experiences. […]
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Future of Learning
Smart Review: Ozobot Brings 1:1 Coding to the Classroom
[…] Ways to Code for $99. Once educators have tried the product and are ready to bring Ozobots to their students, options include the Classroom Kit for in-person instruction and the new Ozobot 1:1 Program which is flexible for in-person, remote, or hybrid instruction. Interested educators can request a demo at ozobot.com. Ozobot also qualifies […]
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Future of Learning
Getting Clearer: Schooling Loss, Not Learning Loss
[…] controls of location and delusional thinking that students at school, in buildings, sitting in classrooms means that they are learning has been unable to translate to remote instruction. The static outcomes for what we learned in schooling a year ago, no longer apply. Our human ecosystem has shifted. We will never be back to […]
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Learning Design
The Adult Learner: Understanding Their Variability to Customize Their Learning
[…] The Adult Learner Model is not a curriculum. Instead, it can be used to supplement and support any program or edtech platform being used to provide rigorous instruction for adult learners. A key function of our Learner Variability Navigator (LVN) is the ease with which the web app can tailor instruction to meet the individual […]
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Leadership
Striving Toward a Better Accountability System
[…] developed, communicated, and implemented COVID Safety protocols to allow our schools to reopen. And in many cases, we offered a multitude of options to our families (face-to-face instruction, hybrid scheduling, and remote learning). And in the process of doing so, we asked many of our teachers to do the impossible—to continue teaching remote students […]
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Personalized Learning
Strategies and Considerations When Designing for Summer Learning
[…] and academic needs are addressed? 2. Use competency-based assessment to understand what students can do Students may have received Fs or not attended a class, or missed instruction but that doesn’t necessarily mean they don’t know something. Consider the barriers that exist and how students can show what they know in a variety of […]
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Getting Through
Nate Kellogg & Gwen Baker on Real-Time Redesign for Schools and Districts
[…] have released the Real-Time Redesign Toolkit, a realistic, inclusive, and rapid process for making targeted improvement toward more equitable and resilient teaching and learning. The toolkit includes step-by-step instructions and real examples from districts across the country to support school and system leaders to use the process in their own context. We documented some of […]
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