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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...
What’s Your Plan? Implementing Innovative and Sustainable Blended Learning School Models
Across the county, skilled educators are implementing truly innovative approaches to teaching and learning. At Afton Partners, we’ve had the privilege to work with over 100 school districts and charter management organizations (CMOs) that have...
States Must Change, Too For Blended Learning
Schools around the country are taking steps to organize around students and engage in more personalized and blended learning strategies and approaches to learning. The creation of these new models is endowed with a spirit of discovery,...
Researching, Developing, Integrating, and Guiding: TNTP Explores New Roles for Blended Learning Teachers
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...
Leading Blended Learning, and Getting Support While Doing It
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...
Blended Learning Is for Teachers, Too
On Tuesday, I touched upon some of the ways blended learning can be used to deepen student learning. Today, I'd love to tackle another group we tend not to emphasize in conversations about deeper learning: teachers. To kick this off, a note about...
What does personalized blended learning professional development look like?
Teacher Andrew Boan describes the customized training he created for colleagues in Reynoldsburg City Schools. I am a teacher and technology integration coach at Waggoner Road Middle School in Reynoldsburg, OH, and schools in our district are...
Celebrating Success: A Snapshot of Edtech Procurement in Houston
Technology purchasing at scale can be difficult. The possible pitfalls are many, and cash-strapped education institutions are generally less equipped than most to navigate the intricacies of a major purchase of devices. As the trend toward blended...
Tapping into Teachers: Mobilizing and Learning from the Front Line of Blended Practice
I grew up in a continuous improvement household. Both of my parents - in their own ways and professions - were pretty obsessed with efficiency and management, so our familial commitment to systems-thinking and optimization ran deep. My ‘80s...
Could local innovation networks be a key to adopting blended learning?
School reforms are often recognized as successful when champions are able to package their essential elements for easy implementation in various environments—this is what grant-makers sometimes call “scale and spread,” or what reformers sometimes...
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