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Virtual Team Builders
Building a sense of community often looks different in virtual environments. This list of virtual team builders, though intended for the workplace, can easily be adapted for engagement in an online dual-enrollment classroom.
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Implementing Competency Education in K-12 Systems: Insights from Local Leaders
This paper describes effective district implementation strategies to convert traditional, one-size-fits-all models of education into more personalized, competency-based learning environments to meet students’ needs. This paper highlights strategies...
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Measuring Forward: Emerging Trends in K-12 Assessment Innovation
A significant movement is underway across the nation to design K-12 assessment systems that better equip stakeholders to provide an equitable and excellent education to each child. While some of these innovations emerged before the pandemic, the...
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Quality Principles for Competency-Based Education
This book, developed with input involving practitioners as part of the National Summit on K-12 Competency-Based Education, offers 16 Quality Design Principles to guide the development of competency-based learning with the goal of creating a system...
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Agency by Design: Making Learning Engaging
“Learner agency is about having the power, combined with choices, to take meaningful action and see the result of those decisions. It can be thought of as a catalyst for change or transformation. Learner agency is about students having the...
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Mere Engagement: Reflections about the Connections Between Online Learning, Student Agency, and Student Engagement
School leaders mustn’t lose sight of the need for student agency and student engagement as they contend with the myriad challenges posed by COVID-19. In fact, they must reimagine what agency and engagement can look like in cases when students are...
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Step One: Craft a compelling why
Successful blended and personalized implementations have clear statements for why they are pursuing change through blended and personalized learning. They ground all of their work in this “why,” referring back to it again and again.
Examples From The Field
Lindsay High School
Lindsay High School serves all grade 9-12 students in Lindsay Unified Public Schools, a California district that uses a performance-based approach to personalized learning.
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Summit Learning Program
Summit Learning Program is a free program that helps public schools bring personalized learning into their classrooms. Schools apply to join the program, working with Summit Public Schools. Selected partner schools explore personalized learning and...
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Teachers Guild and TLA want to know: How do YOU personalize learning in your classroom?
Teachers Guild and The Learning Accelerator are joining forces for a personalized learning collaboration. As a kickoff, we asked educators to submit their favorite lessons or activities that they already use to personalize learning in their...
![Screenshot of Rhode Island Design-Based Education Strategic Planning Process, which shows “2020 Vision for Education, Rhode Island’s Strategic Plan for PK-12 & Adult Education, 2015-2020” on top of a wall of illustrations, alongside text that reads “Developing Rhode Island’s PK-12 education strategic planning process,” and a quote, “We came up with this crazy idea that instead of [RIDE] developing the plan, we’ll ask community members to do it. We knew it was right, but it was scary. This is going to be a plan that RI is going to take and use for the next 5 years to do amazing things for the children of the state.”](https://practices-assets.learningaccelerator.org/images/strategy_images/_square/3713/Policies3.3.4.webp)
Strategies
Example: Rhode Island’s Strategic Plan for Education
Rhode Island, a state committed to implementing blended and personalized learning, developed and implemented a design-based, community-based, crowd-sourced strategic plan for public education. Discover the narrative, process, and key materials they...
