Digital Promise

APRIL 25, 2019

In traditional science classrooms, students are often presented with facts and definitions to memorize, or they are asked to follow a predetermined set of instructions to complete a lab activity. However, this model of instruction does not align with our emerging understanding of how students learn science best.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 7, 2017

Mentor Public Schools is a suburban district 20 miles east of Cleveland, Ohio, which serves 7,650 preK-12 students across 42 square miles. Throughout the district, traditional rows of desks have been updated and replaced with flexible learning spaces. Adapting to create innovative environments. As a result of a $13.8

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Digital Promise

APRIL 18, 2018

The result of this work will be published later this year as a Challenge Agenda – a comprehensive catalog of the high-priority challenges that K-12 districts need and want to solve. Once we know the WHAT, the most difficult question is: HOW do we support the K-12 ecosystem in solving the sector’s most pressing challenges?

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Digital Promise

JUNE 8, 2017

As the moderator of a SXSWedu panel covering the Challenges of Curation in K-12 Schools, I held several brainstorm calls with the panelists, sent them thought-starter questions, solicited feedback from teacher and librarian contacts in the industry, and thought I was as ready as I could be. Librarians are trained master curators.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

This blog post is part of a series that highlight different stakeholders' perspectives on purchasing practices for K-12 personalized learning tools. For such a purchase, traditionally most K-12 school systems issue an Invitation for Bids (IFB), and accept a contract from the lowest-priced responsive and responsible bidder.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2020

Through their foundation, the couple is paying some 600 college students to tutor K-6 children who were falling behind. The 70-year-old former family and consumer science teacher didn’t end up tutoring in a traditional sense. Such an investment, Slavin wrote in his blog post, would be “a good start.” Bill Haslam and his wife.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 14, 2016

These innovative art programs are the brainchild of Robert Hoang, who joined the Burbank team last year to teach visual arts to K–6 students, and to work with his colleagues to plan arts integration lessons. In the remote village of Nanwalek, Alaska, the K-12 school was planning to improve its slow, satellite-provided Internet connection.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 13, 2017

Many Opportunity Youth have had traumatic experiences within the traditional school setting, and often these educational struggles are rooted in undiagnosed learning differences. The Fellows participate in a 12-month, intensive professional development experience focused on learning differences.

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Psych Learning Curve

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

In our Psych Learning Curve blog post one year ago, we described an approach to educational testing—called dynamic measurement— that has the potential to improve educational testing practice in the U.S. Dynamic Measurement Works across Levels of Schooling Dynamic measurement is not just applicable to young children or the k-12 setting.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

In our vision, “multimodal” combines traditional aural, verbal, and textual aspects of language learning (reading, writing, speaking, and listening) with visual, kinesthetic, reflective, experiential, and collaborative learning modes.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 18, 2016

Instead of focusing on traditional questions such as which textbooks to use or when to give exams, he suggests that teachers focus on the bigger questions, such as, “what is meaningful to students, and how can I help them find their own way through the learning process?”. Sheldon, K. Psychological inquiry,11(4), 227-268. Walton, G.

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Edthena

MAY 11, 2021

Co-author of The Distance Learning Playbook and literacy and leadership expert Doug Fisher has implemented new techniques to informally check for understanding in nontraditional ways as a K-12 teacher. Doug Fisher was interviewed by Edthena founder and CEO Adam Geller for the teacher professional development blog PLtogether.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 9, 2019

Against a backdrop of growing interest in learning coding as an economic driver and computational thinking as a new literacy, this panel discussion will lean into the equity challenge of realistically addressing “computing for all” in K-12 education. Traditional stories rely on 2D technologies like paper or images.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 17, 2018

The principal reason their institutions are pushing dual-credit programs, administrators said in a survey , is that, with traditional enrollments plummeting , it gets high school students on the hook and helps recruit them. It’s an innovation that’s increasingly crucial to colleges, too.

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Digital Promise

MAY 11, 2017

“Flipped” classrooms, where the typical lecture and homework elements of a class are reversed, are used across K-12 and postsecondary education. I-BEST challenges the traditional notion that students must move through basic education or remedial courses before they can start working on certificates or degrees.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2018

The NAEP scores showed stellar gains within the traditional public school system. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has frequently praised the state as a model of “school choice” with a taxpayer-funded voucher program for students to attend private school and many charter school options.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

We should consider asking this question in the context of the traditional classroom. Have our experiences in traditional classroom been stellar? All of us have had great classes in traditional settings and perhaps some that were not. This is not meant as a criticism of the traditional classroom. Focus on learning.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2017

“All of them are searching for that holy grail of tailoring content and skills to the weaknesses of each kid,” said Larry Cuban, an emeritus professor at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Education, who often writes about education technology on his popular blog. What is personalized learning?

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Since we launched the League in 2011, we’ve been proud to recognize over 70 school districts and their superintendents as they work to solve the challenges facing today’s K-12 schools through innovative strategies.

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All Things Pedagogical

MAY 26, 2024

Connected to this second danger of familiarity and pedagogy is the sort of holy grail given to traditional publishing methods as opposed to the grey literature, like blogs and podcasts.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2018

They are careful to clarify that these forecasts are not meant to be read as “predictions,” but rather “insights about the wide range of possibilities for what might happen in the future,” as Jason Swanson wrote at the end of 2015 , kicking off a blog series looking back at how much of their first forecast became a reality.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2016

In 2012-13, black students accounted for more than 90 percent of enrollment at over a quarter of the schools in Mississippi, according to federal and state school district data compiled by Jake McGraw, public policy coordinator at the Mississippi-based William Winter Institute for Racial Reconciliation and editor of the blog Rethink Mississippi.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 14, 2016

Teachers, too, must invest a lot of time in running the game – never mind the demands of the traditional course. Some research suggests that, if it’s properly applied, gamification can improve attendance, enhance understanding of content, encourage engagement and ultimately improve academic performance.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Educators would not only have the traditional acknowledgement, but they would also have a portable, evidence-based way to showcase their specific knowledge and skills. Many pre-K through 12 districts are doubling down on personalizing instruction and focusing on mastery of key competencies with our students.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 12, 2016

San Diego: Katie Martin of the University of San Diego’s Mobile Technology Learning Center highlighted the growth of their multi-sector partnerships, supported by Qualcomm and others in the region, to foster learning and innovation regional K-12 districts. Check out a short video highlighting some of their work here.).

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

A looming question is whether personalized learning that works in, say, a tight-knit, mission-driven charter school can be reliably translated into traditional district schools with many more students, less flexible schedules, keener standardized-test worries and cultures steeped in established ways of teaching and learning.

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Digital Promise

JULY 29, 2016

Also, in contrast to traditional evaluations where companies only receive a final report, developers could capitalize on real-time feedback to make product improvements. For example, in South Fayette Township School District , INVENTORcloud changed its program rollout in response to student requests.

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Digital Promise

JULY 10, 2017

To meet the growth in learner diversity in today’s classroom, a new paradigm for improving the precision and accuracy of “personalization” is critical to address the needs of students who are held back by traditional pathways designed for the mythical “average.”

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Digital Promise

MAY 8, 2019

K., & Pashler, H. How can the increased use of technology in both formal and informal settings help teachers and students leverage the benefits of distributed practice? I think technology can absolutely be a boon for distributed practice. His research addresses the application of cognitive psychology to improve learning and memory.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 20, 2016

They described their roles in students’ lives as extending beyond those of traditional instructors, and most said they stepped into those roles willingly. The answer is probably not a traditional top-down intervention, says Kraft, or a simple policy shift. SCHOOLS AS OPEN SYSTEMS — OR CLOSED.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

This blog post is part of a series that highlight different stakeholders' perspectives on purchasing practices for K-12 personalized learning tools. When I think about how the adoption and acquisition of technology is changing in K-12 education, it brings to mind the well-known Sydney Harris cartoon.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 25, 2017

What distinguishes micro-credentials from traditional PD workshops is the way in which teachers and educational leaders provide evidence of learning. Traditional PD uses an attendance sheet as the primary measurement of “learning”. Vienna, VA: International Association for K-12 Online Learning (iNACOL). [4]

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Maitri Learning

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The manualized approach to professional education is not meant to replace the traditional approach. You can read more about this in my blog post about a pilot teacher education program I helped to develop with a team of brilliant Montessorians at NCMPS.) Arendt, K., & Thastum, M. Then, they use it. Johnsen, D.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Rather than using only traditional, randomized controlled trial (RCT) studies (which are costly and difficult to implement), schools can try action research , design-based implementation research (DBIR) , and other continuous improvement processes. Visual recording of the panel discussion on Research Use in Schools.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 8, 2020

Increasing the number of black educators in K-12 spaces is essential. Miller is also the creator, writer and editor of the Official Urban Education Mixtape Blog. Census data show that 70 percent of U.S. school counselors are white. (In He spent six years teaching in charter schools in Camden, New Jersey.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2018

Charters, which are publicly financed but independently managed, give founders the freedom to do more than what a traditional school may provide. It made complete sense for a university that had a college of education, with researchers, student teachers and other support, to help K-12 schools that were in the same neighborhood.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Secretary of Education nominee Betsy DeVos and her potential impact on traditional schools. We know that President-elect Donald Trump favors school choice, which could mean an expansion of taxpayer-funded vouchers and other alternatives to traditional public schools. There’s been plenty of speculation about U.S.

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