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Leadership
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.
EdTech
RealizeIt Can Make Your Program Adaptive
RealizeIt, based in Dublin and Chicago, can semi-automatically ingest almost any form of learning content and, with a little coaching, can identify prerequisite relationships and build a competency-based sequence of granular learning nodes with assessment gateways.
Personalized Learning
Ready For The World: Redefining Success In The Age Of Change
By: Antonia Slagle. As part of our Smart Parents series, Antonia writes about her son's own educational experiences and how her son's high school allowed him to have personalized learning opportunities including important internship experiences and mentors.
Personalized Learning
ROI of Deeper Design for Online Higher Education Programs
By: Jason Gorman. Vice President of Learning Experience Design Services at Six Red Marbles gives insight into ROI of design for online higher education programs and the importance of aligning design efforts with student enrollment and retention.
EdTech
PEAK by Fuel Education
As part of the #LearningPlatform series we take a look at PEAK by FuelEd, a dashboard that provides an up to date and personalized experience for administrators, teachers, and students.
Difference Making
Hacking Your Traditional High School Experience
By: Dan Cardinali. Don’t feel like you’re stuck with only one path through high school. Take control. Make your own opportunities. Hack your education and your future. But do those things while keeping the big picture in view.
Personalized Learning
What Should High School Graduates Know And Be Able To Do?
Students and community members deserve a more compelling and complete set of goals and metrics. It remains challenging to describe the aims and measures of a rigorous well-rounded education. Here are some examples of schools and districts setting the bar beyond basic reading, writing, and math.
Leadership
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.
Personalized Learning
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.
Ed Policy
States Must Change Too, For Blended Learning
By: Lisa Duty. Rhode Islands has a commitment to a blended learning future. Lisa describes how She describes how they're developing a five-year strategic plan that's engaging a team of Rhode Islander educators, parents, students, and community members from diverse backgrounds.