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The Next Big Thing in Personalization: The Student
By: Arthur VanderVeen. What’s been missing in learning technologies—and what will be the next big focus in personalization—is the student.
10 Ways to Personalize Learning
By: Adisack Nhouyvanisvong. Personalized learning is an educational approach where the student drives their own learning. Here are 10 tips to help educators personalize learning for students.
Preparing Principals: Best Practices and Next Steps
In the third of three posts on principal preparation and development Tom shares Best practices, next steps and recommendations to preparing principals to boost the achievement of American students.
Next Gen Principal Prep: Blended, Personalized, Competency-based
It’s time to rethink leadership preparation in education. The linear model is obsolete, expensive, and time consuming. It’s time for new pathways and new partnerships that prepare leaders for the schools our young people deserve. New models of preparation must be about matching leadership to the next generation environment where they will serve.
Formative Assessment: Progress, Barriers and Opportunity
The progress made, current barriers and opportunities that face formative assessment with the ongoing shift to digital learning and increasing access new technologies and data.
Preparing for Conversations with Parents
Designing conversations with parents about their student's academic levels, pace, and progress in competency-based education and helping parents and their students appreciate the value of personalized learning. emphasis on personalized learning based on where students are in their learning
Leave Retention Behind in Favor of Promotion on Mastery
The alternative to retention isn’t social promotion - it's mastery. Why competency-based learning is more important than seat time.
A New Start on Accountability
Building off the new blog series, #TheNewAccountability, how student-centered learning, meaningful data, and innovation zones can improve school accountability systems.
30 Attributes of Next Gen Learning
The learning opportunity set improves every month with new tools powering new experiences and environments. By 2020 I'm confident the learning landscape will dramatically improve. Here are 10 successes, 10 LX attributes and 10 system attributes that will make up next gen learning.
7 Ways State Policy Can Promote Competence
There are seven ways state policy can promote and accelerate the shift to next-generation competency based learning and improve outcomes.