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How Does Acceleration Research Help Schools and Kids Rebound?

Cool Cat Teacher

Acceleration research says it is a way to do that. Dr. Nancy Frey has researched Acceleration Research along with Douglas Fisher and shared their results in Rebound: A Playbook for Rebuilding Agency, Accelerating Learning Recovery, and Rethinking Schools. This episode focuses specifically on acceleration research.

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Differentiating with Personalized Learning

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Personalized learning is the latest buzzword in an education environment bursting with new ideas but this one is impressive. In a sentence, personalized learning: “tailors instruction, expression of learning, and assessment to each student’s unique needs and preferences.” ” — ISTE.

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Spotlight: How One Teacher Taught Digital Citizenship Via Student-driven Websites

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The 8th grade just received their own profiled laptop since the school was deploying a blended learning/personalized learning initiative and the 1:1 student laptop was a key project. I would use questions to persuade them to enhance their creations or gave them rhetorical questions regarding any missed researched fact.

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Can Personalized Learning Be Scaled to Ease Teacher Burdens and Close Achievement Gaps?

ED Surge

Some say it’s time to finally commit to scalable personalized learning. After nearly two decades of teaching, leading, researching and writing—all with a focus on personalized learning—Smith is taking another step forward in his life’s mission to better understand students and help them learn.

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21 Top Professional Development Topics For Teachers Now

Cool Cat Teacher

Many of the topics below were part of that conversation, including Social Emotional Learning (SEL). As a result of this webinar and some research of my own, I compiled this list which I hope will serve as a quick menu for you and the teachers at your school to select summer professional development that will help you grow and learn.

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College Credit Classes in Remote Teaching/Blended Learning

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digital search/research. At the completion of this course, you will be able to: Know how to blend digital citizenship into lesson plans that require the Internet. Classmates will become the core of the teacher’s ongoing Personal Learning Network. Develop and employ a Personal Learning Network. netiquette.

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Learner Analytics for Informed Teaching Strategies

Magic EdTech

This opens up new avenues for researchers, who with the help of big data, can study students’ and teachers’ behavior toward learning outcomes and also close the feedback gap by providing timely suggestions and critiques. Learning Management Systems For Learner Insights.