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Personalized Learning
4 Ways a Charlotte-Mecklenburg School is Making Learning Personal
By: Dr. Mary Ann Wolf. If you’re looking for an example of a school leading in making learning personal, look no further than The Tar Heel State. Hawk Ridge Elementary may look like an average elementary school from the outside, but upon your first step inside you are greeted with open spaces and eager, empowered students who are encouraged to take ownership of their own education
Personalized Learning
Your Child, Your Choice: Finding the Right School for Your Child
By: Gary Gruber. A major challenge for parents is how to make an informed choice that includes the age and stage of your child and his or her specific needs and interests when it comes to school selection.
Leadership
Why Letting Youth “Run the Store” is Important for their Development & Life Success
By: John Weiss. Giving young people voice, choice and decision-making opportunities is critical to support their healthy development and life success. They need to make decisions, act on their intentions and work collaboratively in school, in after-school programs and in family structures.
Personalized Learning
Summer Brain Drain Prevention: Opportunities for Students, Teachers and Parents
Summer brain drain shouldn’t be viewed as an opportunity lost. Instead, summer break should be seen as an opportunity for parents, community and business leaders to create unique learning experiences for students.
EdTech
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.
Leadership
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.
Leadership
Your Planning Process Signals What’s Important to You
Designing a retreat? Building a budget? Making a plan? Think about what the process will signal to your community. We suggest a process that is simple, transparent, and inclusive. Remember, how may be as important as what you decide.
EdTech
Edmodo: A Platform Redefining Learning
Edmodo is quietly, consistently positioning itself not just as the glue to hold your technology-enhanced learning initiatives together, but the rocket fuel that it will need to redefine what learning looks like now and in the future.
EdTech
Five Activities That Helped Me Survive the End of the School Year
May we not just survive the end of the school year, but use the last interactions with our students and colleagues to set the pace for next year.
EdTech
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.