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What “Drives” Student Learning? What my son reminded me about teaching and learning

In this awkward era of “distance” or “virtual” learning, teachers have been forced to drastically change their teaching. They are working harder than ever to try to help their students and are turning to digital and media resources in an Read More …

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Now More Than Ever… Clarify the Purpose Behind the Assignment

Have you ever gotten so busy “doing” things that you forget why you are doing things in the first place? Many of my past students feel that that’s what assigned homework feels like all the time; they’re just doing work. Read More …

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Learning What Works Through Looking at Student Work

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We are a fairly large comprehensive high school in North County San Diego which continues to see our student population shift. Similar to all schools in our area, our diversity and socioeconomic levels continue to expand. Knowing that traditional lecture Read More …

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How NOT To Do Personalized Learning

By Craig Gastauer and Laura Stott On the second day of the #Empower18 ASCD Pre-Conference session, “Students at the Center: Discovering Who They are by Learning the Habits of Mind” with Art Costa, Bena Kallick, and Allison Zmuda, five incredible Read More …

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From the Ashes, the American Shopping Mall Rises …

personalized learning and habits of mind

Currently, I work at a large, public high school where we are trying to reimagine the student learning experience. Like many schools, we have dedicated teachers building strong teacher directed experiences to help our students develop content knowledge and skills. Read More …

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Creating an Example of What We Are Trying to Achieve

It is our mission to nurture creators, inventors, and innovators — students prepared to learn, grow, and take ethical action to solve real-world problems — through exploration, analysis, debate, imagination, collaboration, and calculated risk-taking. Why is this important? Educational success Read More …

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From Traditional High School Learning to Co-Creating Learning Experiences

And so we begin… August 11, 2017, the first day that the ninth graders came to experience Vista High School 2.0, we witnessed the beginning of our evolution from a large traditional high school experience to an experience in which Read More …

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Powerful Trends Observed in Personalized Learning

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What makes personalized learning so powerful in my eyes? Talk about a zone of discomfort … for the first time in 24 years I am not in the classroom. While still at my high school, my new role is to Read More …

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How Grant Wiggins has Influenced Me

Grant Wiggins

I cried. It was during the passing period between the first two block periods of the day as I was checking my text messages and the news stopped me in mid step. “Did Grant Wiggins pass away?” Sure enough, the Read More …

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Help Your Students Get Over the Fear of Personalized Learning

personalized learning

Within my AP/IB Biology class, students were tasked with learning about large molecules (carbohydrates, lipids, proteins and nucleic acids) needed for life. Traditionally, the vast majority of students find this to be their least favorite and most tedious unit of Read More …

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