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Making Competency-Based, Personalized Learning Real for Teachers
As educators work to make the shifts necessary to make this a reality, we have to ask ourselves what our systems for professional learning can do to achieve similar ends. Teacher development providers — if they are really serious about offering resources that are truly more personalized — need to build together a common infrastructure that connects learning happening everywhere and anytime.
Nobody is Average, Every Student Deserves Personalized Learning
Todd Rose points out that no student is "average." School designs based on average destroy talent because advanced students aren't challenged and students with specific weaknesses don't have their strengths nurtured.
10 Roles for Leading Toward Deeper Learning
As schools shift to personalized, competency-based deeper learning, how will the roles of leaders change? What sorts of skills, habits and mindsets will support these significant changes in education? What roles do leaders play to create and support deeper learning environments? The answers.
Edgenuity Provides Rich Student, Teacher Experience
Edgenuity is a robust content platform that offers full credit-bearing courses based on state standards and has already developed custom courses in 30 different states to align to specific state standards.
10 Things Your Professional Learning Partners Should Want to Tell You
Why your professional learning partners should model the posture of experimentation by both encouraging and supporting the desire to try new things, asking difficult questions, and pushing boundaries.
10 Roles & 7 Recommendations for Leading Toward Deeper Learning
By: Tom Vander Ark & Karen Cator. If we want more students to experience powerful learning, school and district leaders need to benefit from the same blended, competency-based and deeper learning experiences that they seek to create for students.
Preparing Leaders for Deeper Learning
A Getting Smart paper released jointly with Digital Promise that advocates for programs that prepare and develop school and district leaders who will create and sustain deeper learning environments in schools.
The End of the Big Test: Moving to Competency-Based Policy
The use of assessment pilots and innovations zones where groups of schools apply and become authorized to operate alternative assessment systems will soon replace the frustration surrounding NCLB and end of year tests.
What is Learning For?
By: Valerie Hannon. Our organized education system is not tapping into the four purposes for human learning according to Valerie Hannon. In this article, she explains these four purposes and advocates for a radical transformation of the current system.
10 Things the Human Resources Department Should Do to Advance Next-Gen Learning
As the learning landscape continues to change for students, teachers, and administrators, it creates new challenges and opportunities for school districts and network support services, especially Human Resources.