Career & Technical Ed
21st century skills
Personalized Learning
Flexible Learning Time Provides System Approach to Differentiation in a Competency Education School
Brian Stack, principal of Sanborn Regional High School in New Hampshire shares how developing a flexible learning time each day provides intervention and enrichment for students and how this time has been a key to providing students with the differentiation and personalization needed success in their competency-based system.
Leadership
LearnZillion: Dreaming Big About Collaborative PD
Historically, most PD has been the low engagement top-down model. PLCs have benefits of teacher-owned collaboration. The LearnZillion approach “combines the rigor and consistency of the top-down approach with the benefits of teacher collaboration,” said Westendorf.
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New Assessments for New Skills
Without measurement the teaching of collaboration is extremely difficult. The current challenge is how to develop Collaborative Assessment tasks, particularly formative assessments that align with local curriculum, contexts and needs.
Personalized Learning
Deeper Learning in High Need Schools
Many of the schools we studied this summer serve high challenge low income communities. They share six characteristics that appear to support the success of low-income students.
Personalized Learning
Distributed Workforce: Better Conditions, Costs, & Outcomes
Organizations that effectively manage a remote workforce are clear about their goals, focus on outcomes more than activities, provide extensive training, make a variety of collaboration tools available, and, finally, they plan the work and work the plan.
Personalized Learning
Mawi + FLVS = Leadership Skills and Success for Students
FLVS will provide the high quality and easily accessible content for the students to be able to access 24/7 and work through at their own pace. Mix that with the face to face/classroom time- facilitated by caring teachers and peers, all ensuing from the truly dynamic spirit of Mawi Asgedom and you have a recipe certain for success!
Personalized Learning
The Having of Wonderful Ideas
Expeditionary Learning is a national network of more than 150 schools that share the coolest design principles including “The having of wonderful ideas.” More broadly, EL schools feature “dynamic leadership, compelling curriculum, engaging instruction, continuous assessment, and a positive school culture.”
Leadership
Developing Character, Courage & College Readiness
The Kerm Family Foundation recently convened several organizations that are reevaluating student character development and better preparing their students for college. DSST, Great Hearts, and Educational Enterprises are networks with well developed charter development programs.
Personalized Learning
Out of My Element: Forming Bonds Between Science and Language Arts
I’ve always considered myself a willing and even eager collaborator with teachers of almost any discipline. As someone who tends to see the big picture, intentionally or not, I notice connections among disciplines so often it almost feels second nature to me. Yet in my practice, I have mostly integrated subject areas within my own classes and under my own control.
EdTech
5 Ways to Use Google Docs in the Classroom
Google Docs is a user friendly suite of online collaborative tools that come with tremendous potential for use in the classroom. Last year all of the students in our school received Google Docs accounts and I was kept quite busy getting students and teachers up and running with the new tools, then discovering innovative ways to use them as effective tools for learning. Here are some of the favorites.