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Reflections from an iNACOL Rookie
"The hard work we do is a manifestation of love for our students." - Rachel Moola, iNACOL Teacher of the Year For a gathering of almost 3000 people, the iNACOL Symposium has the feeling of a family reunion. In all directions, there are people...
Solving the Problem of "Teaching to the Middle"
After 10 years of teaching, I have streamlined my approach to identifying effective personalization practices. Recently, while working on a project to design teacher prep for blended and personalized learning, I had the unique opportunity to visit...
We Had to Personalize Teaching to Personalize Learning
Blended and personalized learning holds tremendous promise for meeting the individual needs of our students and deepening their learning. Unfortunately, in the rush to implement these models, we often overlook the needs of those responsible for...
Engaging Teachers in Blended through Blended Best Practices
Blended learning can do for educators what it is already doing for students, as long as professional development (PD) designers are as strategic with its implementation as teachers are when building a blended lesson for their students! Significant...
Making Competency-Based, Personalized Learning Real for Teachers
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...
The Classroom Blender: Looking at Education Through a New Lens
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...
Hold that Elevator! A Message on Pitching Your Plan for Blended Learning
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...
Leaders Learning Deeply with the Leadership in Blended Learning and Fuse RI
At The Learning Accelerator (TLA), we believe that effective principal leadership is absolutely critical for creating and sustaining schools that foster deeper and personalized learning. Given this, as part of TLA’s next human capital initiative,...
Leveraging the Core Budget to Change America's Schools
Across Reynoldsburg City School District (RCS), personalized learning is increasingly achieved at the classroom and individual student level through the shift to blended learning. Blended learning requires a fundamental redesign of instructional and...
Investing in Autonomy, Performance, and Innovation
Most districts put "innovation" at the top of their agendas these days, but too few are innovating with a purpose. The Reynoldsburg City School District (RCS) is becoming an exemplar for how to unleash principals' and teachers' creativity in...
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