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Teacher Perspective: Working on Multiple Grade Levels at Lindsay
Teacher Brandy Quintero explains how advanced students can work at a higher level in a competency-based learning system. Transcript: Brandy Quintero: So at the beginning of the year, you know, when you first get to start knowing...
Shifting to self-directed learning: Setting a "default" mode
Blended and personalized learning models attempt to put students into greater control of their learning. Teachers need to build in explicit supports and structures to support students as they exercise greater choice and control. One structure we...
Innovative Approaches to Mastery-Based Grading
Springpoint's paper, Inside Mastery Based High Schools: Profiles and Conversations, includes several innovative approaches to the challenge of mastery-based grading.
The "Why" and "How" of Mastery-Based Progression
As more and more educators across the country are moving towards blended learning, they are struggling with a very challenging question: how exactly do I make mastery-based progression happen in my classroom?
Lovett Elementary School
Lovett Elementary in Chicago provides blended and personalized learning to its students in grades 2-5.
Modifying Standards to Meet Student Needs
Lovett uses the Common Core State Standards but modifies them to better meet the needs of their students, often teaching additional skills students make need to successfully master the standards.
Guide: Policy Barriers to School Improvement: What's Real and What's Imagined
The Center on Reinventing Public Education investigated policies that "get in the way" of principal actions to pursue personalized learning. In it, the authors find that many barriers are imaginary- leaders can find workarounds to drive change.
Educator Competencies for Personalized, Learner-Centered Environments - 2020 Edition
In 2015, the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) and the Students at the Center initiative at Jobs for the Future released the first-ever set of comprehensive competencies for teaching in personalized, learner-centered settings. The...
Advice: Select a Competency Framework
Here are four different approaches to competencies/frameworks when approaching blended/personalized learning from iNACOL, Jobs for the Future (JFF), Chief State School Officers, Matchbook Learning, and Education Elements. Each example gives insight...
Fuse RI: An Open Access Model of K-2 Blended Learning Implementation
This report by Michigan Virtual Learning Research Institute is the first in a series documenting Fuse RI, which is a three-year project funded by TLA with a goal of developing a statewide system for sharing, implementing, evaluating, and scaling...
District Support for Schools Shifting to Personalized Learning
Henry County Schools provides monetary support, invests in people, and takes time to talk through issues and challenges of transitioning to personalized learning.