When rolling out blended/personalized learning in your classroom or school, there are three key pieces: space, routines, and culture. This course will give you concrete strategies to start rolling out these key components and blending your practice today.
This course will teach you about blended and personalized learning as a whole, and show you how to stretch your thinking and try something new. You’ll learn the how and why of “blended” and how blended/personalized learning is changing the face of teaching and learning. You’ll leave this course with four blended “recipes” you can implement in your classroom immediately.
In this course, participants will:
This paper explores K-12 competency-based education policy and practice across six New England states: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont.
This paper explores the core concepts of competency education, detailing the limitations of the traditional system, and how competency education is designed explicitly for equity and student success. Author Chris Sturgis then dives into why and how the New England region embraces competency education. She provides insights into policy strategies being used across states and analyzes the impact of competency education on quality, equity, scaling and sustainability. The Appendix offers a synopsis of each state strategy, complemented by short case studies of a few districts and schools.
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Competency education is expanding across the country as a means to ensure all students are mastering the skills and knowledge to be successful in college, career and civic life. This paper explores the core concepts of competency education, provides insights in policy and practice across five New England states, and analyzes the impact of competency education on quality, equity, scaling and sustainability. This report draws lessons learned and insights from educators and policymakers in New England and is intended for district leadership and policymakers seeking to introduce competency-based education within their states.
This report is intended for district leadership and policymakers seeking to introduce competency-based education within their states.
Under the new federal K-12 education law, the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), states have a historic opportunity to transform K-12 education toward personalized, student-centered learning. This law represents a marked shift in federal control to states, presenting state and local stakeholders with important opportunities and flexibilities to redefine student success and the goals of the United States education system.
This policy report provides recommendations for state policymakers to support local and statewide efforts to transform student learning in K-12 education through personalized, competency-based learning. Taken as a whole, the recommendations present a comprehensive state policy approach to transforming K-12 education. Such an approach will ensure every student can access powerful, personalized learning opportunities in order to develop the knowledge, skills and competencies they will need to be successful.
We encourage state leaders to develop and advance a coordinated set of these recommendations in a way that best meets the needs of students in their state.
An in-depth profile of Lindsay Unified School District’s efforts to provide students with home Internet access. Includes useful strategies and artifacts.
iNACOL published the report Promising State Policies for Personalized Learning to highlight specific state examples of promising policies to support and scale personalized, competency-based learning to close equity and achievement gaps. This executive summary outlines the policies in that report.
Personalized learning can:
Students will learn how to take control of their learning. Teachers will have high expectations for every student, know how they learn and adjust instruction to meet students’ learning needs.
By meeting students where they are and using advanced technologies to personalize learning at scale, these innovative models enable students to achieve dramatically improved outcomes. The goal is equity as well as excellence as the system must change to meet the needs of all learners. The system must learn how to address the needs of people they have never successfully served as well as how to operate at the leading edge of pedagogical and organizational innovation.
We encourage state policymakers to advance a set of the following promising policies in a way the fits within their state’s unique policy landscape and education system.
Summit Denali articulated a variety of routines for both students and teachers to support personalized learning time. This document lists these routines and also provides context for their implementation.
BetterLesson worked with 11 blended learning master teachers nationally to capture and share their individual strategies for using technology to use technology in strategic and innovative ways to personalize the learning of their students. Explore these strategies.
Effective communications is a cornerstone of successful blended learning implementation. Strong two-way communications builds engagement, trust, and credibility. District leaders are recognizing the need for communications assistance to build understanding and support for their blended learning efforts.
