A new approach to personalized learning reveals 3 valuable teaching insights
May 31, 2018 |Personalized learning’s rationale has strong intuitive appeal: We can all remember feeling bored, confused, frustrated, or lost in school when our classes didn’t spark our interests or address our learning needs. But an intuitive rationale doesn’t clearly translate to effective practice. For personalized learning to actually move the needle on improving student experiences and elevating […]
Innovative staffing to personalize learning: How new teaching roles and blended learning help students succeed
May 24, 2018 |DOWNLOAD PAPER EXECUTIVE SUMMARY In today’s classrooms, teachers face a tall order. They want to differentiate instruction, develop students’ social-emotional skills, and strengthen the bonds among students and caring adults. But addressing all these needs for dozens of students at a time is a herculean task. Many schools have started to help teachers use blended […]
The secret element in blended learning
May 9, 2018 |By definition, online learning is part of any blended learning classroom. It is the key innovation for enabling student-centered learning at scale. Given this fact, it’s easy to get caught up in thinking of technology—devices and software—as blended learnings’ core, defining feature. Yet the most powerful and important element in blended learning doesn’t have a touch […]
Personalized teaching: 4 funding strategies to amplify teacher impact
April 10, 2018 |Great teaching is at the heart of high-quality personalized learning. Accordingly, one of the best things a school can do to improve the personalized learning experiences of its students is to expand the impact of its highest-performing teachers. Of course, expanding the reach of great teachers is easier said than done–especially when it comes to […]
Four innovative staffing takeaways from personalized learning schools
March 16, 2018 |Through our research over the past few years, we’ve seen schools around the world adopt technology to amplify the impact of teachers and make learning more student-centered. And, while technology is a powerful learning resource, it’s not the only lever for helping students succeed. Increasingly, we also see schools experimenting with staffing arrangements—essentially, how adults […]
Participate in emerging research on blended teaching competencies
March 7, 2018 |The Blended Learning Universe is partnering with researchers at Brigham Young University to better understand the current status of existing blended teaching competencies. The researchers, Emily Pulham and Dr. Charles Graham, aim to better gauge the level of blended teaching knowledge, understanding, and skill. The link below is a 35-45-minute assessment of selected blended teacher […]