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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...
Communications Tips for School Leaders
There are many elements critical to the success of change management initiatives, including those involving blended and personalized learning. Having worked with almost 200 districts across two organizations, we have learned that communications is...
What is the educator’s role in measuring blended learning success?
At this year’s iNACOL symposium, there was increasing consensus around the idea that understanding the effectiveness of blended and personalized learning in different contexts can no longer be put off into the future or left to researchers and think...
Lounge Lessons: Clearing up persistent teacher misconceptions on blended learning
Having taught high school and middle school for almost ten years, I still have many friends who are educators and administrators throughout the country. Recently I visited a school and was able to reconnect with some of them, talk about life, and...
A Measurement Agenda: Role of Edtech Developers?
As the implementation of blended and personalized learning grows, questions about effectiveness are becoming relevant to more students and families, teachers, and classrooms across the nation. Researchers and think tanks cannot generate these...
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...
State Profiles in Innovation
How Four States Are Advancing Blended and Personalized Learning Statewide Today we are releasing State Profiles in Innovation: How Four States Are Advancing Blended and Personalized Learning Statewide (“Profiles”). This new publication is produced...
Really the End of Average?
It seems that everywhere I turn these days, there’s another book or article reproaching our reliance on averages, and, by extension, the “gold standard” of scientific research – the randomized controlled trial (RCT)–in education. The two concepts...
SXSWedu Panel Picker: TLA’s picks
Interested in seeing blended learning on the agenda for this year’s SXSWedu? As part of their session selection process, SXSWedu welcomes public voting: anyone can cast their vote for session proposals, and public input accounts for 30% of the...
Top 10 Ideas for Knowledge Sharing in Education
Over the last nine months, TLA has been engaged in a deep research effort to better understand teaching and learning in blended and personalized learning environments. We have learned a great deal and identified some really terrific practices at a...
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