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

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We have to use technology to relieve some of that exhaustion.” 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. A single teacher can't do it all.

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Why Mastery Based Learning is a Good Option

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Because learning is student-driven rather than teacher-driven, learner-paced rather than unit-paced, technology is critical to the rollout of this approach. Thanks to online tools such as Kiddom , it’s easier than ever to peg student achievement to specific learning standards. What is Standards-based Grading?

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