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Alliance College-Ready Public Schools: Alice M. Baxter College-Ready High School

The largest charter organization in Los Angeles serving more than 11,000 low-income students aims to prove it is possible to educate students at high levels across an entire system of schools. Alliance College-Ready Public Schools developed the PACE blended learning model, launched at the new Baxter High School, to more effectively prepare its students to persist in college. PACE addresses three challenges to college completion for its alumni: insufficient academic rigor in high school, lack of self-direction and time management skills, and financial pressures.
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5 Tips to Market Your Classroom Innovation on Twitter

Whatever your innovation, these five best practices will help you to reach as wide an audience as possible on one of the world’s most popular social media channels: Twitter.
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Personalized Learning in Practice: Finding Exemplars of K-12 Customized Education

Where can you see personalized learning in practice?
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Architect's Floor Plans of Cornerstone Health + Technology HS

The floor plan of the redesigned learning space designed for Cornerstone Health + Technology High School in Detroit.
Professional Learning

Summit Public Schools CEO Shares Insights with Next Gen K-12 Pioneers

Find out how one forward-thinking Bay Area school system manages student engagement, academic success, parent communication, and more.
Enabling Change

D.C.-Area K-12 Changemakers featured in Michael & Susan Dell Foundation podcast

CityBridge’s Margaret Angell joins Principal Scott Cartland in a podcast on personalized learning in the nation’s capital.
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Battelle Education: Metro Institute of Technology

This new district partnership school, slated to open in fall 2015, will serve Columbus, OH students in grades 6-13 in a competency-based, blended learning early college high school model that is focused on both college and career success. The Metro Institute of Technology is designed to solve two problems: (1) capable students may struggle in schools that assume everyone acquires the same knowledge, at the same rate, towards the same goals; and (2) the high cost of a college education prohibits many students from completing a degree.
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Profile: Valor Collegiate Academies

The four guiding principles behind the blended, competency-based, personalized learning model of Valor Collegiate Academies, a charter organization serving grades 5-12 in Nashville, TN: 1. Reflect the diversity of our country and local community. 2. Meet students' unique academic and non-academic needs. 3. Leverage a strong school community to create self-directed learners. 4. Develop a new approach for selecting, training & retaining great teachers.
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Blended Learning on the Ground: Advice from College Educators

Most college faculty recognize that lecturing alone is not an effective way to reach students. But how do you get started with blended learning?
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Can Technology Boost Middle School Math & Literacy Standards?

This blog post is the start of a new series with a focus on ways learning technologies can support the success of 7th to 9th graders.