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New Designs for School

Personalized Learning is Promising

How well do students perform in blended, competency-based, personalized learning schools? Kristen Vogt breaks down the findings from a recent research report by the RAND Corporation
Technology Tools

11 Next Gen Tools for K-12 and Higher Ed

We examined 11 strategies and innovations from the work of NGLC grant recipients that helped to increase student success at their breakthrough schools and degree programs.
Enabling Change

Personalized Learning Movement Grows in D.C.

On Saturday, December 6, seven D.C.-based schools received some very good news.
Professional Learning

Breakthroughs in Higher Education

Two programs help forward-thinking educators to impact their institutions.
Enabling Change

Early Planning Minimizes Project Disruptions

Sustaining a new approach to improve student success requires long-term financial, operational, and cultural commitments—more likely to occur with early planning.
New Designs for School

Personalized Learning: Turning Lofty Aspirations Into Specific District Policy

EdWeek Webinar (Archived)

"Personalized learning" seems to be everywhere these days—in the instructional goals set by school districts, in state and federal policy, and in the promises made by educational technology companies trying to do business with schools. In recent years, school officials have sought clarity on what real personalized learning looks like—in the hope that the guidance will provide more specific and useful information to the K-12 community.

This webinar examined what a growing number of school and technology advocates have identified as the core elements of personalized learning. They see the foundation of personalized learning encompassing not only instruction tailored to individual students' needs, but also a rethinking of the overall learning environment in schools. Our guests examined the core elements of personalized learning, and presented examples of what it looks like in a district trying to better meet students’ academic needs.

Webinar Date and Time: Thursday, December 11, 2014, 2:00 p.m. ET

Speakers:

Andrew Calkins, Deputy Director, Next Generation Learning Challenges
Theresa Ewald, Assistant Superintendent of Teaching and Learning, Kettle Moraine School District

Moderator:

Sean Cavanagh, Associate Editor, Education Week
Enabling Change

PRESS RELEASE: City-based Nonprofits Tapped to Bring Personalized Learning to Local Schools

Emerging Harbormaster Network to help educators, schools, and cities create the conditions for all students to receive personalized instruction
New Designs for School

Evidence of Personalized Learning Practices in NGLC Schools

There’s so much more within RAND’s Early Progress: Interim Research on Personalized Learning than students’ MAP scores.
Why Schools Need to Change

Investing in the Explosion of Options in Education & Learning

​A legacy mindset in education is that there needs to be only one or at most a few limited options. It’s a monoculture, and it’s one that needs to end.​
Technology Tools

RioAchieve: Using Technology to Increase Retention & Completion at Scale

As student-to-advisor ratios grow, how can high touch advising and mentoring be sustainable?​