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Mapping Learner Experience
As students navigate their learning journey, we must deliver explicit, student-owned opportunities to set and map their course. Here's one strategy that think can be truly effective.
Silicon Schools Reflects on Five Years of Personalized Learning
Silicon Schools recently released a read-worthy report on the progress they’ve seen and lessons they’ve learned since their journey in personalizing learning began five years ago. Here's our overview.
8 Trends Improving Student Options In Online Learning
It's National Online Learning Day, so in celebration let's take a look back at how far we've come and eight trends we're seeing in online learning today.
School Consortium Proposes a Better Transcript
For well over a century we've recorded the high school experience as a series of courses and grades, showing activity but not necessarily growth and accomplishment. Here is how the Mastery Transcript Consortium is working to change this approach for the better.
Measure, Verify, and Signal Any Skill with Degreed’s New Skill Certification
It’s a show-what-you-know world where demonstrated skills are becoming as valuable--in some cases, more valuable--than traditional degrees. Here's what Degreed is doing to change how we measure skills.
Impact Report: Building Capacity for Personalized Learning and More
Education Elements recently released its third annual Impact Report, "Building Capacity for Personalized Learning and More," examining the impact of personalized learning on districts across the country. Here are highlights of what they found.
Better Formative Feedback: Work Worth Doing in a Place Worth Being
While everything about a learning environment may provide formative feedback to students, not everything qualifies as formative assessment. Here is what we do know about what formative assessment is and how it works.
Creating Change-Agents: The Intersection of Critical Thinking and Student Agency
By: Jenny Pieratt. As educators, we know that in order to develop the next generation with the skills to innovate and improve our world we can no longer teach students what to think. We must teach them how to think.
Students as Stakeholders: Talking About College & Career Readiness
By: Hannah Bartlebaugh. Students are the experts on their own experiences, but far too often their voices are left out of the conversation about how to improve education. Here's how to talk to them about college and career readiness.
Proposal For An Innovation Diploma
What if we created a new competency-based high school diploma framework focused on innovation that represented preparedness for the automation economy? Here's an outline of what that could look like.