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Whose Role Is It Anyway?
By: Shawn Rubin. Systemic changes to teaching and learning will not be realized unless district leaders redefine their roles in this work. This is the guiding message in a blog and a white paper from The Highlander Institute that investigates the role of district staff in creating personalized and blended learning classrooms.
20 Year Forecast: Broader Aims, Students at the Center
The hunch that encouraging student agency will produce better learning outcomes was pervasive at the Russian sponsored Global Education Futures Forum which met this week in Silicon Valley. Discussions were framed by 16 trends.
The Future of Personalized Learning is Now
By: Jean Fleming. Measures of Academic Progress Assessment, or MAP test, is a system that gathers inputs from different kinds of assessment, including formative, in-the-moment assessments, and longer interim assessment.
5 Steps to Effective and Transformative Professional Development
By: Alvin Crawford. Excellent and transformative professional development is in our reach, argues Alvin Crawford. By following these steps, we can move towards professional development that is blended, personalized, and transformative. These are changes, Alvin argues, that are needed in the field given that up to 90% of professional development is deemed ineffective.
Instructional Leadership through Focused Observation and Feedback
By: Sarah-Jane Caban. As part of our Preparing Leaders for Deeper Learning series, Sarah-Jane writes about Relay's Graduate School and their work to help prepare principals for Deeper Learning environments through their program, The National Principals Academy Fellowship.
Helping Chief Academic Officers Make The Shift From Managed Instruction To Personalized Learning
School district CAOs know how to build and run managed instruction regimes.Now they're trying to pivot to blended learning and they're getting a lot of pressure from their boss and teachers to consider updates. We explore the difference between managed instruction and next generation learning, and share 10 elements of comprehensive solutions to the challenge of helping chief academic officers reframe their work.
Practical Professional Development Can Help Educators Reach “That” Student
In honor of Digital Learning Day, Andy Kalahanis, a 9th grade online educator shares how digital professional development activities have helped him engage his English students.
3 Ways Parents Can Spot Student-Centered Learning
What can parents look for to determine if their child is in a student-centered learning environment? Here’s advice from a mother of two school-aged children, a former classroom teacher and a current advocate for student-centered learning.
7 Things EdLeaders Should Do
Opportunities in school leadership are great but so are the challenges. There are seven steps to transform a school or district.
When the Stars Align in Support of Learning…
By: Karla Phillips. A common K-12 and higher education reform effort where the stars can align? Competency-based learning.