Evaluating News and Other Sources
This resource combines the short online course, Evaluating News and Other Sources, designed to help older high school and college students understand and assess bias and evaluate sources, as well as an issue of the ASCD Express newsletter, Critical Literacy in the Age of Clickbait, focused on the same topics. Credo Education released its online micro course… Read More ›
Leading Change: The Emerging Human Capital Landscape in Personalized Learning Initiatives
This report describes findings from a study of the human capital landscape in the 21 districts participating in the U.S. Department of Education’s Race to the Top–District (RTT–D) grant program. It explores the various professional roles that RTT–D sites created or modified as they adopted personalized learning. It also examines lessons learned about compensation, hiring… Read More ›
Making Learning Personal for All: The Growing Diversity in Today’s Classroom
The report makes the case for the need to shift to personalized learning to serve growing numbers of diverse learners. It asserts that current models that drive personalization are often overly simplistic and not based on research. The report expresses concern that these over-simplified models risk driving personalization in a way that actually perpetuates achievement gaps… Read More ›
How Personalized Learning Starts with Less Teacher Talk, More Student Voice
This was originally posted on Edsurge on January 25, 2017 as part of the EdSurge Fifty States Project. Two of my students stared at me, and then at each other. Each held up a sheet of graph paper, but their graphs were different. And then, one of them asked the question I knew was coming. “But,… Read More ›
Mid-Atlantic Conference on Personalized Learning
This conference will bring together educators, researchers, and thought leaders in the mid-Atlantic and northeast committed to personalizing learning. Sessions will focus on the theme “Innovating Education for All Learners”. Topics will include: Accelerating achievement through competency-based Education Incorporating student voice and choice in today’s classrooms Creating open and inviting learning spaces, Developing new models… Read More ›
Designing for Equity in Next Generation Learning
This toolkit was created to provide support and inspiration to educators and community members who wish to have more meaningful, transparent and transformative conversations about equitable learning. The toolkit was developed by Next Generation Learning Challenges (NGLC), an initiative of Educause Learning Initiative, a nonprofit community of higher education institutions and organizations committed to the advancement of… Read More ›
Can Administrators Lead Innovation Without Blended Learning Experience?
This podcast, part of the Edsurge on Air series, is an interview with Stepan Mekhitarian, the Blended Learning Coordinator for the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD). Mekhitarian has been a math teacher and administrator and researched effective blended learning as part of a doctoral study. He is currently collaborating with administrators, schools, and teachers to expand efforts for… Read More ›
Bronx Arena High School Multimedia Monograph
This multimedia monograph features Bronx Arena High School, an innovative, competency-based school serving historically marginalized youth in New York City. The school’s mission is to empower over-age under-credited students to graduate ready for college or a career. The multimedia monograph is an interactive case study that features video interviews with students and staff. It brings… Read More ›
Digital Learning Day
Created by the Alliance for Excellent Education in 2012, Digital Learning Day or DLDay is a nationwide celebration that highlights great teaching and demonstrates how technology can improve student outcomes. States, districts, schools, and classrooms across the United States and around the world are encouraged to hold their own events and activities to celebrate Digital… Read More ›
Pay for Success CTE Competition RFP
Funded by the U.S. Department of Education, Social Finance and Jobs for the Future (JFF) are hosting the first Pay for Success competition in K-12 education to provide technical support to develop and expand career and technical education (CTE) programs for underserved, high-need youth. Pay for Success is a contracting model that drives government resources… Read More ›
What is Unique About the Researcher’s Role in Measuring Blended Learning Success
In this blog post, Saro Mohammed challenges researchers to go beyond simply gathering evidence. She argues that education researchers, especially those researching personalization and blended learning, are in a unique position to help scale up implementation of evidence-based practices. Because the rapid progress of instructional innovation often outpaces traditional research and dissemination methods, she offers… Read More ›
Education Reimagined Website
Education Reimagined is an initiative of The Convergence Center for Policy Resolution, a nonprofit focused on solving social challenges through collaboration. Education Reimagined works to accelerate the growth and impact of the Learner-Centered Education Movement in the United States by finding and encouraging innovators, bringing stakeholders together, and educating the broader community. Educators and community… Read More ›