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Personalized Learning
How Can We Truly Meet Students Where They Are At?
Competency-based education is a system of instruction where students advance to higher levels of learning when they demonstrate mastery of concepts and skills. In this setting, learning doesn’t rely on time, place or pace.
Ed Policy
Science Teachers Are Storming the Hill, and Congress Should Listen
By: Maya Ajmera. On Oct. 13th, two hundred dedicated teachers from 44 states, Washington D.C. and Puerto Rico convened at our nation’s capital to advocate for STEM education. Here's why congress should listen.
Leadership
New Partnership Empowers Educators to Excel
A new partnership between K12 Inc. and Southern New Hampshire University will create a new masters degree aimed at educators teaching in online or blended settings and promises to advance excellence in K-12 online teaching.
Personalized Learning
Personalized and Blended Learning Practices
Trying to get started with blended and personalized learning, but not sure where to start? The Learning Accelerator unpacks and shares real examples from the field to further assist educators looking to do this work.
Ed Policy
America Succeeds Reports on Education Pathways for the Future of Work
Tom share’s key highlights and findings from Age of Agility: Education Pathways for the Future of Work, a new report from America Succeeds.
Ed Policy
Navigating the Changing Landscape of Dyslexia
By: Shantell Thaxton Berrett. One in five students has a language-based learning disability, the most common of which is dyslexia. In a rapidly changing time for dyslexia legislation, here's what you need to know.
EdTech
Artificial Intelligence in Education: Where It’s At, Where It’s Headed
Artificial intelligence is predicted to fundamentally alter the nature of society by 2040. Investment in AI start-ups was estimated at $6-$9 billion in 2016, up from US$415 million four years earlier. Here's what that means for education.
Future of Learning
10 Really Hard Decisions Coming Our Way
The most powerful tools the world has ever known have been created- and while they have the potential to make lives better, there's a bigger problem we must be aware of. AI Advancements are moving faster than civic infrastructure can handle. Here’s 10 issues we're not prepared for.
Personalized Learning
5 Tech-Free Classroom Innovations, and Ideas for Getting Started
We don’t need unlimited funding or fancy high-tech toys to innovate our practice. Often, we just need to think differently. Here are five simple tech-free innovative learning experiences that will help you and your students think differently.
EdTech
The Problem Is Wasted Time, Not Screen Time
Now more than ever, we need to be intentional about how and when young people use technology in order to make it productive time, not a waste of time.