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Blue Sky Thinking from Academic Entrepreneurs

Breakthrough Models Academy teams represent some of the best blue-sky thinking in higher education right now. It’s not the stuff of dreams, either—many could really take off with the right support.
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Symbols of Our Learning: Personalized Learning in 4 Schools

The holiday season reminds us of the power of symbols. Artifacts from a recent trip to NYC are symbols of personalized learning schools in action.
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What We Can Learn from Finland

Finland carved out its own pragmatic, steady path to extraordinarily high achievement​​. How did they do it?
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Symbols of Our Learning Part II: Next Gen K-12 Instruction in NYC

Artifacts, symbols, and pictures that stood out from visits to five innovative schools in New York City
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What do Teachers & Students Think of Personalized Learning Schools?

Ever wonder what both teachers and students think of personalized learning? A recent RAND Corporation report offers us an initial perspective.
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What if Students Made a School?

What would happen if we trusted students to design their schools?
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Caliber Schools: Caliber: Beta Academy

Caliber: Beta Academy is reimagining education as we know it, with the belief that the innovations in its model will allow 100% of its students to graduate ready to attend and succeed in a competitive four-year college and beyond. The academic model of the school features personalized learning plans, blended learning for English and math, project-based learning for science and social studies, an integrated social and emotional curriculum, daily writing blocks, and daily computer coding/engineering/robotics courses.
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Blackstone Valley Prep Mayoral Academy: BVP High School

This Rhode Island charter high school serves an intentionally diverse population of students from two urban and two suburban communities. The blended learning model is tailored by grade level and emphasizes differentiation, deeper learning in a community, and assessment.
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Profile: Montessori For All - Magnolia Montessori

The founders of Montessori For All, which opened Magnolia Montessori--a PK-8 public charter school in Austin, Texas--created a new school model that blends the best of authentic Montessori schooling (hands-on and self-directed learning) with best practices from high-performing charter schools (basic skills mastery to excel on standardized tests and state assessments) in a blended learning environment. Montessori For All provides students with standards-aligned experiential learning in a racially, culturally, and socio-economically diverse environment.
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Profile: Thrive Public Schools

Thrive Public Schools, a K-8 charter school in San Diego, expands the concept of school beyond core academics to encompass social-emotional intelligence and "real world" understanding. The blended learning model at Thrive integrates technology throughout a curriculum built upon project-based learning, targeted instruction, and tinkering. Students progress at their own pace, are grouped in mixed-age clusters, and loop with the same teacher-teams for two years.