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Hold that Elevator! A Message on Pitching Your Plan for Blended Learning

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Let’s face it, implementing blended learning is complex. Each of the steps can be challenging, whether it’s shifting to personalization, integrating technology, or embracing competency-based learning. If you’re not crystal clear about why your school or district is embracing blended learning, you’ll likely have a hard time building support among your key audiences. It takes […]

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The Classroom Blender: Looking at Education Through a New Lens

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Montana-based science teacher, Jessica Anderson, is one of the 11 Master Teachers selected to participate in our project with BetterLesson. We asked her to reflect on her experience making the switch to blended learning and to share advice for other teachers and leaders. Read on below, and tell us what you think at @TriSciCurious and

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Making Competency Based PL Real for Teachers

Making Competency-Based, Personalized Learning Real for Teachers

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Across the country, teachers are trying to bring technology into their classrooms to better meet the needs of every student. The goal is to make learning more personalized, competency-based, and data rich. As educators work to make the shifts necessary to make this a reality, we have to ask ourselves what our systems for professional

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Leading Blended Learning, and Getting Support While Doing It

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As we began developing our human capital strategy in the summer of 2013, we heard two things about leadership in blended and personalized schools: • principals are absolutely critical to successful design and implementation, and; • there is a dearth of resources and supports to help effectively develop principals. Clearly, there was work to be

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Feeding the feedback loop: The value of an uncomfortable conversation

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My list of reasons for admiring educators and school leaders is long, sincere, and quite honestly, a bit mushy. In observing first-hand the daily life of the noblest of fraternities, it’s clear to me that this profession consists of some of the most passionate, caring, and hard-working members of our society. They are assuredly deserving

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Researching, Developing, Integrating, and Guiding: TNTP Explores New Roles for Blended Learning Teachers

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Last week, and with TLA’s support, TNTP released a first version of guidance to help districts and schools rethink their human capital systems to support blended learning. The working paper, “Reimagining Teaching In a Blended Classroom,” summarizes the findings and ideas of their talented team, which were informed by visits to schools across the country

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Multi-State K–12 Collaborative Releases Request for Proposals for Open Educational Resources

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Request for developers to create free, openly licensed, mathematics and English language arts content aligned with State Standards Cupertino, CA – November 19, 2014 – The K–12 OER Collaborative, an initiative led by a group of 11 states with the goal of creating comprehensive, high-quality, open educational resources, today released a Request for Proposals (RFP)

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Calling all developers: Are you ready to create OER?

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K-12 Collaborative releases RFP for new education resources Yesterday at the Open Education in Washington, D.C. we announced the release of the K-12 OER Collaborative’s Request for Proposals to create full-course Open Education Resource (OER) content across K-12 grade bands. In my work at The Learning Accelerator, I’m dedicated to seeking out the best solutions

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EducationSuperHighway’s New Network Guide Enables Blended Learning Infrastructure

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Improving K-12 Internet connectivity is essential to blended learning and improving K-12 education. EducationSuperHighway, a non-profit focused on upgrading Internet access for every classroom in America, recently released its Network Essentials for Superintendents Guide which brings clarity to this often overly technical process and will help district leaders take the necessary steps to upgrade their

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