The book includes great advice from many Aspire blended learning teachers, and shares key insights from
blended learning leaders across the country, including folks at the KIPP Foundation, Summit Public Schools, Rocketship Education, E. L. Haynes Public Charter School, the Alliance College - Ready Public Schools, Cornerstone Charter Schools (Detroit), Highline Public Schools (Washington), Mastery Schools and FirstLine Schools.
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Last week Fuel Education held
a Blended Learning Leaders Forum in Portland, Oregon, that featured two excellent speakers: Tres Tyvand of Bend La Pine Schools, and Bryan Wood of the Crater Lake Charter School.
Not exact matches
To support effective
blended learning,
leaders should support more flexible budgeting processes that afford schools the chance for strategic decision - making: they can push schools to articulate new instructional models and then step in to fund those models with the right devices.
If it wants to work with multiple content providers on the other hand, there is a good bet it might work with a company like Education Elements, which is emerging as a
leader in helping schools move to
blended -
learning models and offering a single sign - on software solution for schools so they can easily work with multiple content vendors.
Julia: For school
leaders looking to transition their school to nontraditional instructional models like
blended learning, what do you view as the key leadership skills they need to successfully steer their school in a new direction?
To build the agenda we used our
Blended Learning Universe to recruit innovative school
leaders and educators to share their tactics and practices at the cutting edge of school innovation.
If school
leaders and teachers adopt
blended learning as a strategy to personalize
learning, increase students» academic mastery, and develop students» noncognitive skills, then the technology will improve along those dimensions.
My takeaway ultimately is that we need more practical guides like this with education
leaders helping their fellow peers with their various solutions to the variety of problems and barriers they confront as they move toward
blended learning.
Funders may need to be more deliberate by creating a robust entity that has the sole job of coordinating across the entire geographic cluster to make sure that system
leaders, principals and other school
leaders,
blended learning directors, teachers, and education technology companies have frequent opportunities to network and spend time with each other
learning and building in a deliberate way on each other's successes and setbacks.
But if school
leaders adopt
blended learning merely to increase out - of - district enrollments, increase course offerings, boost credit completion rates, lower staffing costs, or decrease the demands placed on teachers, then
blended -
learning technologies will become increasingly cheap, convenient, engaging, and easy to use without necessarily improving students» academic or life outcomes.
Barbara Treacy is a nationally recognized
leader in online and
blended learning who works with states, districts, colleges and universities, and other educational organizations to enable them to build successful online and
blended programs for educators and students.
Now, as
blended learning continues to improve, it makes an increasingly compelling case to parents, teachers, students, and school
leaders that it is better than traditional instruction at addressing their day - to - day challenges.
Through dozens of short chapters he tells the story of the meteoric growth of the Rocketship network of charter schools, known as a
leader in «
blended learning,» along with the trials and tribulations of other charter chains.
The piece I wrote illustrated the power of personalized
learning powered by
blended learning, which addresses the call by a group of business and academic
leaders in their recent «Open Letter on the Digital Economy» and a corresponding piece that contained a set of public policy recommendations to «redesign how we deliver education at all levels using the power of digital technologies.»
More than 100 teachers and
leaders from around the country were invited to share their approaches to piloting and scaling
blended learning in classrooms and schools, which we summarized in our latest report, «From the frontlines: Takeaways from the 2016 Blended and Personalized Learning Conference,» out thi
blended learning in classrooms and schools, which we summarized in our latest report, «From the frontlines: Takeaways from the 2016 Blended and Personalized Learning Conference,» out th
learning in classrooms and schools, which we summarized in our latest report, «From the frontlines: Takeaways from the 2016
Blended and Personalized Learning Conference,» out thi
Blended and Personalized
Learning Conference,» out th
Learning Conference,» out this week.
And while the paper can not offer definitive answers for policymakers and school
leaders, it does provide a helpful primer on the overall economics of online and
blended learning.
You might have also overlooked Rocketship Education's
leader Preston Smith's explaining how and why his organization rethought its approach to
blended learning.
One of her current projects includes creating an online and
blended -
learning training resource for Franklin Covey's
Leader in Me program so teachers throughout the world can be trained on this incredible program.
-- April 8, 2015 Planning a High - Poverty School Overhaul — January 29, 2015 Four Keys to Recruiting Excellent Teachers — January 15, 2015 Nashville's Student Teachers Earn,
Learn, and Support Teacher -
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Learning — July 23, 2014 Getting the Best Principal: Solutions to Great - Principal Pipeline Woes Doing the Math on Opportunity Culture's Early Impact — June 24, 2014 N&O Editor Sees Solution to N.C. Education «Angst and Alarm»: Opportunity Culture Models — June 9, 2014 Large Pay, Learning, and Economic Gains Projected with Statewide Opportunity Culture Implementation — May 13, 2014 Cabarrus County Schools Join National Push to Extend Reach of Excellent Teachers — May 12, 2014 Public Impact Co-Directors» Op - Ed: Be Bold on Teacher Pay — May 5, 2014 New videos: Charlotte schools pay more to attract, leverage, keep best teachers — April 29, 2014 Case studies: Opening blended - learning charter schools — March 20, 2014 Syracuse, N.Y., schools join Opportunity Culture initiative — March 6, 2014 What do teachers say about an Opportunity
Learning — July 23, 2014 Getting the Best Principal: Solutions to Great - Principal Pipeline Woes Doing the Math on Opportunity Culture's Early Impact — June 24, 2014 N&O Editor Sees Solution to N.C. Education «Angst and Alarm»: Opportunity Culture Models — June 9, 2014 Large Pay,
Learning, and Economic Gains Projected with Statewide Opportunity Culture Implementation — May 13, 2014 Cabarrus County Schools Join National Push to Extend Reach of Excellent Teachers — May 12, 2014 Public Impact Co-Directors» Op - Ed: Be Bold on Teacher Pay — May 5, 2014 New videos: Charlotte schools pay more to attract, leverage, keep best teachers — April 29, 2014 Case studies: Opening blended - learning charter schools — March 20, 2014 Syracuse, N.Y., schools join Opportunity Culture initiative — March 6, 2014 What do teachers say about an Opportunity
Learning, and Economic Gains Projected with Statewide Opportunity Culture Implementation — May 13, 2014 Cabarrus County Schools Join National Push to Extend Reach of Excellent Teachers — May 12, 2014 Public Impact Co-Directors» Op - Ed: Be Bold on Teacher Pay — May 5, 2014 New videos: Charlotte schools pay more to attract, leverage, keep best teachers — April 29, 2014 Case studies: Opening
blended -
learning charter schools — March 20, 2014 Syracuse, N.Y., schools join Opportunity Culture initiative — March 6, 2014 What do teachers say about an Opportunity
learning charter schools — March 20, 2014 Syracuse, N.Y., schools join Opportunity Culture initiative — March 6, 2014 What do teachers say about an Opportunity Culture?
Ask the Teacher -
Leaders — October 1, 2015 Indy Teachers Union Votes for High - Paid Opportunity Culture Roles — September 9, 2015 Charter School Lessons in New Orleans, Nashville — September 1, 2015 Teacher Evaluation for Teacher - Led, Team - Based Schools: Free Guide & Policy Brief — August 27, 2015 Early Lessons from Newark's Charter School Sector — August 20, 2015 New, Free Training Materials for Teaching - Team
Leaders — August 4, 2015 Higher Growth, Pay at Early Opportunity Culture Schools: Results and Lessons — July 21, 2015 Syracuse Schools Build on First Opportunity Culture Year — June 16, 2015 How to Build an Opportunity Culture: New, Free Toolkit — June 9, 2015 Hire Great Teacher -
Leaders,
Blended -
Learning and Team Teachers: Free Toolkits — June 2, 2015 Texas First to Launch Statewide Opportunity Culture Initiative — May 19, 2015 RealClearEducation.com Launches Opportunity Culture Series — May 15, 2015 Indianapolis Public Schools Begin Opportunity Culture Initiative — May 07, 2015 What Could YOU Do in an Opportunity Culture?
As more educators begin to see the tremendous impact
blended learning can have on student
learning and engagement, school
leaders have begun scrambling to train teachers on how to utilize technology to enhance instruction.
Academic Gains, Double the # of Schools: Opportunity Culture 2017 — 18 — March 8, 2018 Opportunity Culture Spring 2018 Newsletter: Tools & Info You Need Now — March 1, 2018 Brookings - AIR Study Finds Large Academic Gains in Opportunity Culture — January 11, 2018 Days in the Life: The Work of a Successful Multi-Classroom
Leader — November 30, 2017 Opportunity Culture Newsletter: Tools & Info You Need Now — November 16, 2017 Opportunity Culture Tools for Back to School — Instructional Leadership & Excellence — August 31, 2017 Opportunity Culture + Summit
Learning: North Little Rock Pilots Arkansas Plan — July 11, 2017 Advanced Teaching Roles: Guideposts for Excellence at Scale — June 13, 2017 How to Lead & Achieve Instructional Excellence — June 6, 201 Vance County Becomes 18th Site in National Opportunity Culture Initiative — February 2, 2017 How 2 Pioneering
Blended -
Learning Teachers Extended Their Reach — January 24, 2017 Betting on a Brighter Charter School Future for Nevada Students — January 18, 2017 Edgecombe County, NC, Joining Opportunity Culture Initiative to Focus on Great Teaching — January 11, 2017 Start 2017 with Free Tools to Lead Teaching Teams, Turnaround Schools — January 5, 2017 Higher Growth, Teacher Pay and Support: Opportunity Culture Results 2016 — 17 — December 20, 2016 Phoenix - area Districts to Use Opportunity Culture to Extend Great Teachers» Reach — October 5, 2016 Doubled Odds of Higher Growth: N.C. Opportunity Culture Schools Beat State Rates — September 14, 2016 Fresh Ideas for ESSA Excellence: Four Opportunities for State
Leaders — July 29, 2016 High - need, San Antonio - area District Joins Opportunity Culture — July 19, 2016 Universal, Paid Residencies for Teacher & Principal Hopefuls — Within School Budgets — June 21, 2016 How to Lead Empowered Teacher -
Leaders: Tools for Principals — June 9, 2016 What 4 Pioneering Teacher -
Leaders Did to Lead Teaching Teams — June 2, 2016 Speaking Up: a Year's Worth of Opportunity Culture Voices — May 26, 2016 Increase the Success of School Restarts with New Guide — May 17, 2016 Georgia Schools Join Movement to Extend Great Teachers» Reach — May 13, 2016 Measuring Turnaround Success: New Report Explores Options — May 5, 2016 Every School Can Have a Great Principal: A Fresh Vision For How — April 21, 2016
Learning from Tennessee: Growing High - Quality Charter Schools — April 15, 2016 School Turnarounds: How Successful Principals Use Teacher Leadership — March 17, 2016 Where Is Teaching Really Different?
Series of
blended learning solutions to transition individual contributors to organizational
leaders that include real - world leadership challenges, embedded social
learning, and a performance support library accessed post training
The lesson to be
learned from her experience is that virtual education, to be successful, needs
leaders who can
blend it with brick - and - mortar schools, unions or not.
In Charlotte - Mecklenburg, multi-classroom
leaders are earning pay supplements of up to $ 23,000 — 50 percent more than the average teacher salary in North Carolina, and
blended -
learning teachers earn supplements of up to $ 9,800.
The Academy for
Blended & Online
Learning offers a series of online courses for both district
leaders and teachers.
Learn more about what current Opportunity Culture teachers think here — multi-classroom
leaders,
blended -
learning teachers, and team teachers discuss their jobs, and principals talk about the benefits of an Opportunity Culture and why they wanted this in their schools.
Antonio Burt, who is in his second year as the principal of Ford Road Elementary School, in the Westwood community, said the flexibility allowed him to
blend various strategies he'd
learned in New
Leaders trainings and from colleagues around the country.
The Academy for
Blended & Online Learning offers a series of courses for leaders and teachers to support blended and online learning initi
Blended & Online
Learning offers a series of courses for leaders and teachers to support blended and online learning init
Learning offers a series of courses for
leaders and teachers to support
blended and online learning initi
blended and online
learning init
learning initiatives.
With teams of researchers, funders, school
leaders, and software developers, we proposed and pitched a series of potential research studies to advance
blended learning.
She walks readers through the workweek of Romain Bertrand, a multi-classroom
leader at Ranson middle school in Charlotte who incorporates
blended learning into his math team, to help understand how Bertrand extends his reach to many, many more students than the one - teacher - one - classroom mode.
Learn flexibly through a
blended learning approach, designed to suit the busy working lives of teachers and school
leaders.
Kevin Kessler, Ed.D., completed his Doctorate in Educational Leadership with his dissertation on the «strategies used by effective transformational educational
leaders to overcome barriers to implementing and sustaining
blended learning in public schools».
As the
leader in differentiated instruction for
blended learning classrooms today, Achieve3000 ® is continually investing in our literacy platform to ensure that it evolves along with cutting - edge research and best - practices in education.
«We were very pleased to offer this opportunity to principals and school
leaders across Ohio,» said Andrew Benson, Executive Director of Smarter Schools, which sponsors the Ohio
Blended Learning Network.
Caverna Elementary School will use
Leader in Me as a framework to implement a mix of self - paced technology, flipped - classrooms,
blended -
learning, and flexible
learning spaces.
Prior to NewSchools, Gonzalez was a Design and Implementation Consultant at Education Elements, where she worked with school
leaders to launch
blended learning models.
He has presented for the following organizations: Johns Hopkins Institute for Education Policy, «Preparing Teachers for Diverse America»; Mid-Atlantic Conference on Personalized
Learning, «Competency - Based Schooling for ELLs»; INACOL
Blended and Online
Learning Symposium, «Lessons from New Competency - Based High Schools:
Leaders Reflect on Design and Launch.»
April, 2014 — Program Day Four For the past four months, the 19 public and public charter school teachers in the CityBridge - NewSchools Education Innovation Fellowship have engaged in an in - depth study of the most promising practices in
blended and personalized
learning, traveling the country and hearing from the
leaders in the field., Recently, the Fellows spent part of their...
Prior to NewSchools, Vanessa was a design and implementation consultant at Education Elements, where she worked with school
leaders to launch
blended learning models.
While there, he became involved with, and then became the team
leader of the NESA Virtual School Project - a U.S. State Department sponsored consortium of schools cost - sharing an online
learning management system for
blended learning, collaboration, and emergency academic continuity.
Dr. Elsberry is a sought - after education
leader and expert in
blended learning.
With our unique
blend of student and educator data, school system
leaders can see the effect of professional
learning on student achievement, educator impact on student
learning, and trends in professional development implementation that affect student growth.
For the past four months, the 19 public and public charter school teachers in the CityBridge - NewSchools Education Innovation Fellowship have engaged in an in - depth study of the most promising practices in
blended and personalized
learning, traveling the country and hearing from the
leaders in the field., Recently, the Fellows spent part of their school - year spring break on a whirlwind tour of four public schools in Detroit that are budding laboratories in personalized
learning.
The Foundation for
Blended and Online Learning works to support student and educator success through blended and online learning experiences and ensure education leaders have real - time, real - world data and insight to inform thoughtful decisions about education policy and pr
Blended and Online
Learning works to support student and educator success through blended and online learning experiences and ensure education leaders have real - time, real - world data and insight to inform thoughtful decisions about education policy and p
Learning works to support student and educator success through
blended and online learning experiences and ensure education leaders have real - time, real - world data and insight to inform thoughtful decisions about education policy and pr
blended and online
learning experiences and ensure education leaders have real - time, real - world data and insight to inform thoughtful decisions about education policy and p
learning experiences and ensure education
leaders have real - time, real - world data and insight to inform thoughtful decisions about education policy and practice.
Previously a strictly face - to - face training facility, the Whirlpool University campus began implementing
blended learning as a method to prime
leaders for new training and development opportunities.
This program is designed to help educational
leaders identify the supports needed for their staff, students and community as they begin implementation of
blended learning in their school or district.
Working group members visit top national
blended schools to
learn from their
leaders, teachers, families, and community supports.