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How Can You Truly Meet Students Where They Are?
By: Karla Phillips. Meeting students where they are in education may mean redesigning schools away from an age-based grade level system into a competency-based one.
Five Things for Big Districts to Think About
After speaking with district leaders, here are five thoughts on how big districts can move forward toward personalized, competency-based education.
Designing Digital Learning Professional Development
digiLEARN has selected 20 Digital Scholars from across the state of North Carolina to design a plan for what digital learning professional development should look like for their educators.
What Is The Foundation of Personalized Learning?
By: Courtney Belolan. In order for learner-centered proficiency-based systems to work, the learning community culture needs to nurture and sustain these three elements.
Why and How Personalized Learning is Transforming Texas Education
Texas schools are shifting rapidly from print to digital content, and these blended environments are enabling a new level of personalized learning in the state's schools.
Three Paradoxes Confronting the Global Educator
By: Valerie Hannon. Many educators see the promise of personalizing education, however here are three paradoxes that can result when seeking to personalize learning in this era of globalization.
New DreamBox Learning Feature Provides Personalized Learning Experiences
DreamBox Learning's new AssignFocus™ feature takes a single assignment request from a teacher and automatically generates individual, personalized lessons for each student based on their needs.
Transforming Schools Through Strengths-Based PD
By: Laura McBain. What would professional development look like for teachers if we focused on our greatest strengths as opposed to our greatest deficits? Here's an example of changing the mindset and practices of one school by doing just that.
5 Strategies for Fostering Independence in a PBL Classroom
By: James Fester. In order to be successful in the 21st century world, students must learn to manage themselves and work effectively with groups of peers. A middle school teacher shares 5 strategies for creating student independence in a project-based learning classroom.
Blended, Project-Based and Social Emotional Learning at Thrive Public Schools
A San Diego school gives visitors a glimpse of the future of learning--blended, personalized and competency-based.