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Personalized learning

New Designs for School

Diverse Learning Environments Can Promote More Differentiated Instruction

Variety in learning spaces helps schools evolve as learning evolves and accommodates a variety of learning approaches to meet students’ needs.
New Designs for School

Breakthrough Schools Colorado

Six schools in three districts redesigning for personalized learning (planning)

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Schools for the Future

Personalized learning for overage/undercredited students - no longer operating.

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Profile: Intrinsic Schools

Students spend time in open, flexible “pods” rather than classrooms at this 6-12 charter school in Chicago. In each half-day Humanities block and STEM block, 90 students move fluidly within a pod between individualized adaptive digital content, multimedia content, small-group instruction, seminars, and group and independent project work. Master teachers design units around essential questions and curate online curriculum.
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Profile: Vertus Charter School

The academic model of this charter high school for boys in Rochester, New York has four pillars: 1) strong relationships, 2) personalized year-round academics, 3) character education, and 4) career preparation.
Technology Tools

Connecting ed & tech: Partnering to drive student outcomes

All too often, the connection between teachers and technology falls flat. Pioneering schools and educators search for technology to support new instructional models, only to find that existing options do not align with their evolving classroom practices. This case study describes how Leadership Public Schools (LPS), a charter school management organization that operates high schools in the San Francisco Bay Area, and Gooru, a nonprofit edtech company, co-developed a technology to support LPS’s personalized learning model and improve student outcomes.
New Designs for School

Breakthrough Schools: New Orleans 2015 Cohort

Five schools working toward personalized learning in the Crescent City (Planning)

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Building Empathy With Extreme Users in the Classroom With Design Thinking

A teacher's plan to glean strategies for success from students leads to a new way to co-create learning pathways with her students.
Why Schools Need to Change

Six Big, Hairy, Inevitable Changes on School's Horizons

Changes in education over the next 20 years are going to be vastly more dramatic than almost anyone is preparing for now.
Professional Learning

Recruiting Teachers for Personalized, Competency-Based Schools

When hiring for its personalized, competency-based school model, one school organization looks at how teachers make decisions.