Design Principles for World-Class Project-Based LearningDesign Principles for World-Class Project-Based Learning How can teachers implement transformative project-based learning (PBL) experiences that empower and motivate students to achieve academic, career and personal success? View this archived webinar to learn how to integrate PBL to promote powerful, personalized learning opportunities for every student. Learn the critical design principles behind world-class PBL to …
Advance Personalized Learning
Advance Personalized LearningPromising State Policies 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.Learn MoreAdvance Personalized Learning Promising State Policies Promising State Policies for Personalized Learning to highlight specific state examples of promising …
Exploring Integrated Learning Systems
Exploring Integrated Learning SystemsLearn MoreExploring Integrated Learning Systems to Optimize Student-Centered Learning Schools and districts across the United States are exploring new and powerful ways to redesign education around student-centered, transformative digital learning using competency education as an underpinning. Transforming schools and districts to student-centered learning (SCL) is a complex process. The transformation of educational systems is not scalable or …
Instructional Materials and Promising Practices
Instructional Materials and Promising PracticesOER: Instructional Materials and Promising Practices for Teachers As the instructional materials landscape changes, educators are seeking resources and promising practices to maximize and optimize student learning. Open Educational Resources (OER) are materials that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and re-purposing by …
Policy Flexibility
Policy FlexibilityCreating Policy Flexibility for Personalized Learning There is a new state education policy concept termed either innovation zones or districts of innovation. State education agencies interested in shifting their role from enforcing compliance to one of supporting innovation and building capacity in districts are working to spur new innovative instructional models and create space for competency-based pathways in student-centered …
Increase ELL Success
Increase ELL SuccessIncrease ELL Success Through Blended and Online Social Emotional Learning There is a massive and persistent English Language Learner (ELL) achievement gap in the United States. Traditional ELL education approaches have focused on language acquisition and content knowledge, yet ELL students have unique social emotional needs. This webinar will demonstrate how social emotional programs help to close the …
Student-Centered Learning
Student Centered LearningFunctional Requirements for Integrated Systems to Optimize Learning This paper illustrates the technical requirements and functionalities that learning management systems need to shift toward student-centered instructional models. This comprehensive framework will help districts and schools determine what systems to use and integrate as they being their journey toward student-centered learning, as well as how systems integration aligns with …
Keeping Pace
Keeping PaceKeeping Pace with K-12 Digital Learning Special Keeping Pace has been tracking trends in online and blended learning policy and practice for 12 years. In this webinar, John Watson with the Evergreen Education Group and Maria Worthen, iNACOL Vice President for Federal and State Policy, presented the latest findings published in the 2015 report related to online schools, supplemental …
Sustaining Blended Learning
Sustaining Blended LearningSupporting and Sustaining Blended Learning Throughout the Year How can educators ensure that learning is sustained throughout the year? In this Teacher Talk webinar, a panel of experienced teachers offered strategies on how to ensure that the excitement for blended learning that existed at the start of the school year is sustained throughout. The presenters represented organizations at …
Competency Education
Maximizing Competency EducationMaximizing Competency Education and Blended Learning: Insights from Experts Twenty-three technical assistance providers convened to discuss the implementation of new learning models, to share knowledge and expertise, and to discuss next steps to advance the field. The convening findings informed this report, which discusses the implications of personalized learning as a main pillar of school design, structured around …