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Puget Sound Districts Share Electronic Records to Personalize Learning
Seattle area districts are personalizing learning using sharing expanded electronic student records. Facilitated by the Puget Sound Educational Service District (PSESD), seven districts between Seattle and Tacoma won a $40 million Race to the Top Grant and fundamental to their work is what Data Quality Campaign calls data portability.
Yale and Yogome Evaluate Effectiveness and Happiness in Common Core Math App
Getting Smart Teacher Blogger Alesha Bishop talks shop with Sandra Jacobo, Director of Education at Yogome, to get a behind-the-scenes glimpse of their work with Yale's play2PREVENT lab. Together they are building games that support learning and happiness.
Personalizing and Guiding College & Career Readiness
A DLN Smart Series paper that offers details on processes, existing tools and best practices for creating a system of student guidance and support.
Toward Better Growth Measures
Better growth measures are key to the future of personalized learning and the end of heavyweight year end tests. As more students progress on personalize pathways, it is necessary to develop comparable growth rates to ensure that all students are making adequate progress.
Adaptive Learning: The Secret Sauce of Next Generation Learning and Achievement
By: Jessie Woolley-Wilson. For educators to adapt and meet the needs of every student, they must have access to meaningful, actionable data that dynamically changes as a student learns.
Navigating the Shift from Number Grades to Narrative Assessment
To reach a tipping point where number, percentage, and letter-based grades can begin to be seen as not necessary or – better yet – detrimental to learning, we have to build a focused movement that shows a consistent alternate view of assessment. That can simply looks like… well… talking to our kids.
In-Demand Job Skills and the (Mobile) Learning Process
By: Lucy Kosturko. The ubiquity and power of mobile devices make them the perfect companion for self regulated learning. Tools like SAS Data Notebook that provides integrated support for goal setting, progress monitoring, reflection, and communication, and SAS Writing Navigator that guides students through the writing process: planning, drafting, revising, and publishing, are changing the game.
A Reflection on the Field of Competency Education
By: Chris Sturgis. In perhaps the year's best blog on competency education, we examine the expansion of CompetencyEd, progress by leading organizations, the greatest weakness currently in the field and current Issues going forward.
Can Common Assignment Improve Student Outcomes?
Literacy Design Collaborative (LDC) created an instructional design platform that provides free online tools and resources for creating literacy-rich assignments and courses across content areas. LDC CoreTools is a guided online experience that supports teachers in planning and creating curricula, allowing them to effectively collaborate with colleagues across their school or across the nation.
Information is the Key to Data-Driven Teaching
By: Lucy Kosturko. Supporting data-driven teachers means providing the right resources to allow teachers to make decisions based on information, not just data. This can have the real world impact and personalize learning in ways that support teachers and students.