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Announcing the Winners of the Reimagining Higher Education Ecosystem Challenge
We are excited to announce the winners of the Reimagining the Higher Education Ecosystem Challenge. Through this challenge, we called upon educators, students, policymakers,...
Join us for the ESSA Report Card Design Challenge to help rethink how families...
What if you could design a solution that would provide more accessible information for families and their advocates as they navigate students’ options for a great...
A Dynamic Response from a Dynamic Postsecondary Ecosystem
Announcing the 25 Higher Education Ecosystem Challenge Finalists — Vote on the public choice winners! “The education ecosystem of 2030 is LIVELY!” When we...
Department makes Learning Registry code base available and invites public to...
The U.S. Department of Education invites the public to innovate and build on the Learning Registry project when support ends on September 24, 2018, and will make the...
Reimagining Higher Education in the Changing World
What could the higher education landscape look like in 2030? What were you doing in 2005? There was no iPhone or iPad, so you weren’t scrolling through this blog because...
Context and Implementation Matter
It’s complicated: With so many edtech options to evaluate, schools shouldn’t be in it alone. There are thousands of edtech options for schools, but not enough...
Data, Data Everywhere and Not a Drop to Drink: The Importance of...
As the focus on evidence-based practices has increased in education, practitioners are increasingly using data to make decisions to improve learning. While practitioners have...
How to Buy Smart: Creating Well-Informed Consumers of Educational Interventions
The word “procurement” can bring to mind a bureaucratic process involving lots of paperwork, but the substance of procurement is critical — how do we identify the...
There’s More to Life than Test Scores: Measuring Social and Emotional Skills...
Success in both school and the workforce requires not just academic knowledge and skills, but also a broad range of social and behavioral competencies. Often referred to as...
Innovating Beyond SXSW EDU: Announcing the Higher Education Ecosystem Challenge
It goes without saying, but at SXSW EDU, there is a tremendous amount of innovation on display. Walking around over the past few days, we have seen evidence that the...
Future Personalized Learning Systems at a Crossroads: Augmented Reality or...
Technology-enabled personalized learning systems continue to capture the imaginations of educators, and for good reason. The promise of tailored learning for every student,...
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in Personalizing the Learning Experience: Insights from Future Ready Schools
What is Personalized Learning?
In the past if you’d seen one definition of personalized learning, you’d seen… well… one definition of personalized learning. While this is a common occurrence in the...
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in Personalizing the Learning Experience: Insights from Future Ready Schools
Personalizing the Learning Experience: Providing Transformative Learning...
Promoting equity and excellence at every level of education to ensure that every child has the opportunity to succeed is one of U.S. Secretary of Education John King’s top...
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in Personalizing the Learning Experience: Insights from Future Ready Schools
Personalizing the Learning Experience: Leveraging Openly Licensed Educational...
I distinctly remember walking into my first classroom as a new teacher to find an assortment of desks, items to be used in learning centers, and a set of traditional...
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in Personalizing the Learning Experience: Insights from Future Ready Schools
Personalizing the Learning Experience: The New Human Capital Landscape
Through the Race to the Top — District (RTT-D) program, the U.S. Department of Education invested in innovative approaches to personalized learning. Sixty-eight school...
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in Personalizing the Learning Experience: Insights from Future Ready Schools
Personalizing the Learning Experience: The Changing Role of the Learner
One of the many benefits of personalized learning is that it empowers learners to develop agency and responsibility for their own learning. This is not always easy or...
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in Personalizing the Learning Experience: Insights from Future Ready Schools
Personalizing the Learning Experience: New Insights from Future Ready Schools
When done well, personalized learning has the potential to radically transform how we teach and learn and how we create more equitable opportunities for students. In the 2016...
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in Personalizing the Learning Experience: Insights from Future Ready Schools
Personalizing the Learning Experience: Research-Based Policies and Practices...
We know from experience with other transformative innovations in education that personalized learning will work in our schools only if we have strong leaders at the district...
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in Personalizing the Learning Experience: Insights from Future Ready Schools
Context and Implementation Matter
It’s complicated: With so many edtech options to evaluate, schools shouldn’t be in it alone. There are thousands of edtech options for schools, but not enough...
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in Building the Evaluation Capacity of School and District Leaders
Data, Data Everywhere and Not a Drop to Drink: The Importance of...
As the focus on evidence-based practices has increased in education, practitioners are increasingly using data to make decisions to improve learning. While practitioners have...
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in Building the Evaluation Capacity of School and District Leaders
How to Buy Smart: Creating Well-Informed Consumers of Educational Interventions
The word “procurement” can bring to mind a bureaucratic process involving lots of paperwork, but the substance of procurement is critical — how do we identify the...
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in Building the Evaluation Capacity of School and District Leaders
There’s More to Life than Test Scores: Measuring Social and Emotional Skills...
Success in both school and the workforce requires not just academic knowledge and skills, but also a broad range of social and behavioral competencies. Often referred to as...
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in Building the Evaluation Capacity of School and District Leaders
Champions aren’t just at the Olympics: Why your district needs a Rapid Cycle...
When it comes to the process of selecting and implementing ed tech in K-12 schools, change is needed. While districts are estimated to spend 14 billion dollars on digital...
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in Building the Evaluation Capacity of School and District Leaders
Building Evaluation Capacity: How the Coach Empowers School and District...
What if school districts had ready access to locally generated evidence about what strategies and tools are most effective for their own students? Imagine if any district had...
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in Building the Evaluation Capacity of School and District Leaders
