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Embarking on Year Two: Moving Beyond Blended Learning
After successfully piloting our first blended program in math last year, we challenged ourselves to dive deeper into the potential of blended learning with the goal of creating a school model that could optimize every aspect of our students’ learning experience.
10 Things School Board Members Should Do in 2013
Set a high bar. Adopt the EPIC definition of college/career ready knowledge, skills, and dispositions. Insist on evidence of real college and career ready standards. Showcase examples of student work at board meetings.
Don’t be Lame, Personalize Learning
At a Baltimore gathering of learning professionals we discussed six important advances underway: personalized learning, learner profiles and customized playlists, iPads and mobile learning, powerful platforms, and progress by demonstrated competency.
Yes to Blended, But Maine Should Authorize Virtual Schools
The Maine Cohort for Customized Learning is a group of nine districts leading the way in meeting the needs of every student. Several cohort schools were featured in a recent Nellie Mae report on innovative schools. Rather than advancing students based on time in a seat, these schools ask students to show what they know.
Why Haven’t Districts Adopted Blended Learning Faster?
Consultants asked, "Why haven't districts adopted blended learning faster?" I answered, "Because it's complicated."
Customize Your Edmodo Account
Parents can also sign up for a free account and become a virtual teacher for their kids, too. If they have “extra” work for them to do, Edmodo is the perfect place to manage it. Push out extra school work, study times or household chores right from Edmodo.
What’s Next? A Flex Plus School Model by Connections Education
I’m a big fan of flex model secondary schools; there at least 10 Reasons Every District Should Open a Flex School. In short, these models create options fast, can leverage community assets, and create a picture of the future of personalized competency-based learning.
Staff Picks
Tom Picks “Creative Cities: New Orleans & Imagine K12 Demo Day: 11 Rising Startups“ Tom says, “Last week I visiting startups in New Orleans one night and attended the ImagineK12 demo day in Palo Alto the next day. Two years ago a week like that would not have happened.
Creating Authentic Jobs For Student Learning Teams
I think students have wised up to us. We’ve meant well as we’ve given them small jobs and empowered them with assigned roles for classroom activities. We’ve asked them to be note-takers and time-keepers. They’ve pounded our erasers in the previous century, just as they clean our whiteboards today.
