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5 Tips to Engage with Underperforming Students
Increasing student achievement in traditional academic outcomes such as literacy, numeracy, and content knowledge is vital for post-secondary success. In recent decades, the definition of achievement has expanded to include essential skills like the 4C’s, Career Readiness, Wayfinding, and Social Emotional Learning. This expanded definition of student success has been necessitated and accelerated by many…
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Next Generation Learning Challenges supports the educators who are reimagining public education. NGLC helps them apply what we now know about learning to school design. They help educators live next gen learning professionally, and work with them to generate environments in which next gen learning can flourish. With customized guidance and deep learning experiences for…
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With 20 years of experience as a leader in strategic foresight and education transformation, the passionate KnowledgeWorks team partners with K-12 educators, policymakers and education stakeholders to prepare each child for success through personalized learning. By looking ahead to the future of learning and work, transforming policy and growing educator impact, the KnowledgeWorks team helps…
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Students at the Center helps educators to understand and make use of current research on student-centered approaches to teaching and learning. Their goal is that each student – with a special focus on students who identify as Black or Brown, have learning differences, are English Language Learners, have recently immigrated or are low-income – have…
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They want to move your school forward. As educators themselves, the leaders of New Hampshire Learning Initiative saw a need to assist schools in deepening learning practices to improve education. NHLI has a strong mission: move schools forward through meaningful educational change, and provide pathways to success in college, career, and life for all students.
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Education Reimagined, an initiative of Convergence, arose out of an 18-month dialogue to re-imagine education among 28 ideologically diverse practitioners and leaders. This group of innovators emerged with “A Transformational Vision for Education in the US” which sets out the fundamental transformation of the current school-centered education system to one that is learner-centered. With the vision…
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Aurora Institute is a nonprofit organization with the mission to catalyze the transformation of K-12 education policy and practice to advance powerful, personalized, student-centered experiences through competency-based, blended and online learning. Aurora Institute engages in policy advocacy, publishes quality standards and catalyzes new opportunities for anytime, anywhere personalized learning. There are some great resources for…
Read More10 Step Primer for Competency-based Learning Design
By Josie Jordan As an educator on the design team of the Pathways program at Mt. Abraham Union High School, I got pretty good at designing and scaffolding personalized, competency-based projects for individual students. Back in the regular classroom, it was a challenge to transfer those same, powerful practices to larger groups of learners without…
Read MoreTips in 10: The On-Ramp to Competency-based and Personalized Projects
By Josie Jordan The On-Ramp In our transition to CBE or personalized learning, we often go to the big picture, “How could I ever meet all the standards that way?”, or, “How could all my students be doing different things?” But going to questions like these is just like trying to merge onto the highway…
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A project of the Aurora Institute, CompetencyWorks is an online resource dedicated to providing information and knowledge about competency education in the K-12 education system. Drawing on lessons learned by innovators and early adopters, CompetencyWorks shares original research, knowledge and a variety of perspectives through an informative blog with practitioner knowledge, policy advancements, papers on…
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