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Sound Advice on Personalized Learning from Six Regional Incubators

Edsurge

That’s the bottom line and big payoff for listening to this six-podcast series on personalized learning from The Michael & Susan Dell Foundation. Don’t underestimate the number of local educators who are willing to try out new learning strategies. There’s a group that’s already motivated and ready for action.

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Improving Social-Emotional and Reading Skills

edWeb.net

A recent edWebinar led by Bobbi Bear, Director of Customer Advocacy for Achieve3000, identified effective ways to integrate SEL with reading instruction, through classroom conversations about nonfiction and fiction texts. Additionally, Bobbi served as a learning facilitator, encouraging students to take ownership of their learning.

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Why haven’t new federal rules unleashed more innovation in schools?

The Hechinger Report

His school and his state are trailblazers in personalized learning, a method that tailors instruction to students’ individual interests and learning speeds. Personalized learning advocates had big hopes for ESSA, enacted in 2015. About 20 other states sprinkled elements of personalized learning into their plans.

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One of the poorest cities in America was succeeding in an education turnaround. Is that now in peril?

The Hechinger Report

The group, made up of people with kids in the school system, functions as a communications channel between other parents and school principals and teachers. Of the students he knew, perhaps 10 percent managed relatively well in that period, and he was in that small group, he said. The parents are on their feet applauding.

Education 101
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Seeing the Pandemic as an Opportunity for Change

edWeb.net

Recent initiatives include the creation of the AASA Collaborative, The Urban Superintendents Academies in cooperation with Howard University and the University of Southern California, Superintendents Consortium on Personalized Learning, and the Aspiring Superintendents Program. About the Hosts. Dr. Daniel A. Dr. Daniel A.

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In New York state, students can be suspended for up to an entire school year

The Hechinger Report

It does not say in our state constitution, ‘every child except for those who may have been seen as disruptive to others,’ ” said Jamaica Miles, a Schenectady City school board member and co-founder of the community organizing group All Of Us. Our first go-to is not suspension. This defies a one-size-fits-all solution, in my mind.”

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Inside Maine’s disastrous roll out of proficiency-based learning

The Hechinger Report

I had never seen kids so in charge of their learning.”. Related: What if personalized learning was less about me and more about us? One group was just starting on probability. When they understood the concept, Ross moved on, giving another group a lesson in operations with square roots. Then she moved on again.

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