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6 Categories of Deeper Learning Skills for Education Leaders
By: Karen Cator. It's essential for education leaders at all levels to understand, articulate and model deeper learning skills. The role that micro-credentials play when it comes to teacher expertise in deeper learning skills and ways education leaders can develop their skills in six different areas.
The Path Forward: Broader Aims, Better Measures, Supported Educators
Over the last 90 days we’ve considered many of the big issues facing US K-12 in these 30 posts.
4 Lessons For Today’s Education Leaders
By: Karen Cator. Digital Promise's League of Innovative Schools is working to close the Digital Learning Gap by designing new ways to engage students in deeper learning experiences. When selecting schools and districts for participation, strong leadership was a "must-have" criterion.
Path To Personalization: Better Models & Better Tests
New developments will mean a gradual reduction in the size of and reliance in heavyweight summative assessment to smaller, less frequent tests that check the validity of local assessments.
Leaders Learning Deeply with the Leadership in Blended Learning and Fuse RI
By: Beth Rabbitt. As part of our Preparing Leaders for Deeper Learning series, Beth talks about the work being done in Rhode Island to prepare principals. She describes two recently launched programs, Fuse RI and Leadership in Blending Learning (LBL) that are creating personalized professional development opportunities for education leaders.
PB”What the hel”L?
By: Riley Johnson. Why PBL is a process, provides a framework to participate in what students are asked to do, and how it can take student voice and choice to new levels.
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.
Six Personalized Learning MVP Moments From Fulton County Schools
By: Stephanee Stephens. Fulton County Schools is leading the shift to personalized learning. Six best practices that's working for large Georgia district: Summer PD, implementation of the right tools, innovative learning environments, recruiting, reflection and analysis, and strategic planning.
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.