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Want Students Who Think for Themselves? Let’s Eliminate Our Standardized School System

ED Surge

School is not the problem. This statement was shared by a former middle school student of mine during his freshman year of high school. John* was getting all A’s and one B in stark contrast to the B’s, C’s, and D’s received in middle school. But my school doesn’t work that way. Morita, you were wrong.

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What If We Measured Learning Through Skills Gained, Not Time Spent in the Classroom?

ED Surge

For more than 100 years, high schools and colleges have relied on the same stalwart tool to measure teaching and learning: the clock. And the fact that students learn valuable lessons in the many hours they spend outside of the classroom, too, before school, after school , on the weekends and in the summer. .

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An Innovative Vision for the Future of Schools

The Innovative Educator

Photograph: David Chang/EPA The Center for Disease Control (CDC) guidance on reopening of schools will require innovative thinking to re-imagine how schools may open in the upcoming school year and beyond. The key will be agility and flexibility. That's because we've learned that we don't quite know what's ahead of us.

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7 Reasons Advancement Courses Has Excellent Teacher Professional Development

Cool Cat Teacher

In addition to improving my classroom and school, the course was beneficial to me because it meets the characteristics of effective professional development. Let's dive into how this looks for my personal PD and what I learned. Sustained Duration (with Flexible Pacing). And the results impacted my whole school.

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Differentiating with Personalized Learning

Ask a Tech Teacher

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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Freedom to Learn

User Generated Education

One of those bright spots was being asked to read Carl Rogers, Freedom to Learn , which was published 1969 in an upper level Educational Psychology course. Significant learning takes place when the subject matter is perceived by the student as having relevance for his or her own purposes. “A

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Reimagining Education: A Call for Action

User Generated Education

It has become blatantly obvious that students can’t learn effectively at home – especially without teacher direction throughout the school day. It’s a perfect time for educators to reimagine an education they wish they had during their own school years so that their learners can have such an education.

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