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Discovery Education Leadership Symposium

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Recently, Discovery Education had the honor of hosting a group of innovative leaders, including state commissioners, school superintendents, national experts, and policy makers, at our 8th Annual Leadership Symposium on September 28 and 29 in Denver, CO. The Great Emergence: Innovations Supporting the New Era of Education.

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Proponents of Competency-Based Education Push to Spur Adoption — Amid Challenges

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For decades, advocates of competency-based education have been arguing that colleges should award credits based on assessing what students know rather than how many hours they’ve spent in class. Try to use CBE to bridge the “skills gap” between what employers say they need and what schools and colleges teach.

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

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Schools are confronting vast achievement gaps among students and an exhausted teaching force. Some say it’s time to finally commit to scalable personalized learning. So many bright educators love teaching and love kids, but they're physically and emotionally exhausted.

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What is Mastery Learning and How Do You Implement It Effectively?

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Mastery learning (also called competency-based learning) is being used in some classes and schools. Jon Bergmann, author of the Mastery Learning Handbook talks about how he uses mastery learning in his chemistry and physics classrooms. Dell Black Friday and Year Long Education Deals.

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ICYMI: Leadership Symposium Recap

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Recently, Discovery Education had the honor of hosting a group of innovative leaders, including state commissioners, school superintendents, national experts, and policy makers, at our 8th Annual Leadership Symposium on September 28 and 29 in Denver, CO. Vrain Valley Schools Innovation Center . Meet the Symposium Moderators.

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After Transforming a College With Online Offerings, a President Steps Down to Tackle AI

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But he’s not done trying to bring big changes to higher education. He plans to focus on a new effort at Southern New Hampshire to explore how to reshape college teaching through the use of new generative AI tools like ChatGPT. So I get here in 2003, and there were about 18 people [teaching] and a few hundred students [online].