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Assessment for Learning Project
With support from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the National Center for Innovation in Education and NGLC are launching a $2 million grant program that will support pilot programs focusing on personalized learning.
Transformative Professional Learning: Getting Better is Getting Easier
By: Irvin Scott. Widespread adoption and integration of new, teacher-powered approaches to professional development has real promise to end the practice of siloing teaching innovation and improve teaching everywhere in ways we didn’t dream about before.
How to Build a Growth Mindset into School Culture
By: Tiffany Della Vedova. A growth mindset must be a prerequisite belief and an easy one to champion. However, the divide between comprehension and practice can be quite wide. As school leaders, how can we bring awareness to this gap and implement practices to cultivate a growth mindset within our schools?
5 Ways Learner Profiles Can Promote Competency-Based Education
Competency-based environments encourage ownership over learning and move students at their own pace and according to their own needs. Learner profiles can play an important role in facilitating competency-based learning. Here are five ways learner profiles promote competency-based learning
20 Ways Education Will Improve by 2020
It’s getting easier to learn anything anywhere. It’s getting easier to create learning environments that work better for teachers and students. Here are 20 ways that learning (K-20) will change over the next five (or 10) years.
Learner Profiles: The New Glue to Unbundled K-20
Whether a traditional school environment augmented by an after school program and online resources, or a full Education Savings Account program, learning is now an anywhere anytime multi-resource adventure. It should be facilitated by a learner profile.
LearnZillion Aligns Dream Team Content with Assessment and Professional Development
As an open, cloud-based curriculum, what's different about LearnZillion? The teacher created curriculum is open and online with assessment and professional learning experiences created to support it. With the central premise being that core curriculum is driven by teachers.
Professional Development: Technology’s Key to Success
By: Lucy Kosturko. Tomorrow’s classroom has arrived, and it’s an exciting place. But, the revolutionary teaching required to meet that goal demands adequate time and training. We must recognize that adequate PD is a necessary condition for the success of innovative educational technologies.
Micro-credentials for Personalized, Powerful Professional Learning
A new report from Digital Promise further explores the potential of micro-credentials for educators. Digital Promise released Making Professional Learning Count: Recognizing Educators’ Skills with Micro-credentials -- a report that shares the results of a survey of teachers on their views on professional development and micro-credentials.
Next-Gen Professional Learning: Online, Personalized and Collaborative
By: Dr. Mark Porterie. Knowledge Delivery Systems uses social learning tools and unique content to personalize learning and encourages teachers to build relationships, share experience and collaborate in ways that just weren’t possible before.