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Strong Planning, Coaching, and Implementing with Fidelity– A Blended Learning Success Story

Education Elements

As soon as you enter Vogel Elementary School, you are greeted with large smiles. In the 2021-2022 school year, the Texas Education Agency (TEA) identified Vogel Elementary as a campus that qualified for a school action. The reason? These results made them eligible for the School Action Fund (SAF) Cycle 6 grants.

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Million-Dollar Advice: The High Cost and Limited Return on Personalized Learning Consulting

Edsurge

Follow education technology-reform projects, and you’ll find mixed academic outcomes and expensive consultants. Now, some educators—and consultants—are calling for edtech consulting firms to be held accountable for whether or not their million-dollar advice translates into improved, measurable learning outcomes.

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Erasing the Look and Feel of Poverty

Digital Promise

The district believes that by making its students feel equal to those in more affluent communities, they will start to see the same outcomes. Compared to white and affluent students, low-income and minority students have less access to nearly every type of educational benefit. All schools are equipped with high-speed Wi-Fi.

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Erasing the Look and Feel of Poverty

Digital Promise

The district believes that by making its students feel equal to those in more affluent communities, they will start to see the same outcomes. Compared to white and affluent students, low-income and minority students have less access to nearly every type of educational benefit. "This is what education is going to look like.

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A Word of Caution Before Hiring a Director of Personalized Learning

Edsurge

After five years of teaching, most recently as a technology teacher at an elementary school, I was recruited for a role outside of the classroom. I could rapidly prototype a new program or model in my classroom and experience improvements in student outcomes. That isn’t good for buy-in.

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In Successful Edtech, Pedagogy Comes First—Devices Second

Digital Promise

A perfect example of the device-before-pedagogy practice is the now-infamous 2011 Los Angeles Unified School District edtech initiative, which involved the purchase of more than 100,000 iPads for its classrooms to the tune of $500 million without any return on investment in terms of student outcomes. blended learning).

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Via Education Dive : “The Purdue-Kaplan Earthquake.” Task Force Seeks Comment on Higher-Ed Outcomes Reporting Standards.” Via The Hechinger Report : “How diplomas based on skill acquisition, not credits earned, could change education.” ” Fox.