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Blended Learning

Classifying K-12 Blended Learning
The following blended-learning taxonomy and definitions expand upon and refine our previous work in helping to create a shared language for the K–12 blended-learning sector.

Personalized and Blended Learning Practices
The Learning Accelerator, a national nonprofit organization working to address the common challenges educators and school systems face in implementing blended and personalized learning at scale, recently released teacher practices, resources and professional learning focused on advancing personalized and blended learning.
7 must-knows from blended learning’s early adopters (Eschool)
Blended learning mavericks reveal what works and what doesn’t for K-12 blended and personalized learning implementations.

Other Resources

Periodic Table of Competencies

Books

Go Blended! by Liz Arney
ISBN: 9781118974209
Publication Date: 2015-02-02
Go Blended! is a practical implementation guide for educators interested in getting blended learning off the ground. Author Liz Arney is a seasoned developer of blended learning programs at Aspire Public Schools, and she also closely collaborates with district and charter leaders from across the country on this work. Go Blended! offers boots-on-the-ground support for laying the foundation for a blended learning program in our schools and classrooms. Throughout the book teachers with blended learning experience share helpful tips and lesson plans to help educators make purposeful choices in using technology to fulfill students' needs without becoming an end in itself. This useful guide also offers key documents and timelines to support a blended learning implementation and provides step-by-step practical advice for avoiding mistakes. Readers will gain expert insight into both the broad and narrow of blended transition, from sweeping concepts like program goals to nitty-gritty details like teaching routines around technology use.
Blended by Michael B. Horn; Heather Staker; Clayton M. Christensen (Foreword by)
ISBN: 9781118955154
Publication Date: 2014-10-27
Blended is the practical field guide for implementing blended learning techniques in K-12 classrooms. A follow-up to the bestseller Disrupting Class by Clayton M. Christensen, Michael Horn, and Curtis Johnson, this hands-on guide expands upon the blended learning ideas presented in that book to provide practical implementation guidance for educators seeking to incorporate online learning with traditional classroom time. Readers will find a step-by-step framework upon which to build a more student-centered system, along with essential advice that provides the expertise necessary to build the next generation of K-12 learning environments.
Blended Learning in Action by Catlin R. Tucker; Tiffany Wycoff; Jason T. Green
ISBN: 9781506341163
Publication Date: 2016-10-13
Blended learning has the power to reinvent education, but the transition requires a new approach to learning and a new skillset for educators. Loaded with research and examples, Blended Learning in Action demonstrates the advantages a blended model has over traditional instruction when technology is used to engage students both inside the classroom and online.

Rethinking Time and Technology

Supporting Blended Learning through Time and Technology
A step by step guide to successfully implement blended learning and expanded learning time at your school.
Three Ways to Expand Learning
A national push to improve students’ math and literacy skills has caused many schools to double up on those subjects, sometimes at the expense of a balanced and engaging education. To meet the demands of narrowly-defined accountability, schools have sacrificed time spent on science, social studies, arts, physical activity and well-rounded skills.
Extending the Reach of Excellent Educators
The U.S. spends more per capita on K-12 education than almost every other country on Earth, yet achievement gaps persist and we have fallen behind globally.

Personalized Learning

Why personalized learning should start in school libraries (E School News)
With personalization a growing initiative in schools, the library may not be the first thing educators think of as a resource. However, according to Michelle Luhtala, library department chair at New Canaan High School, CT, and Jackie Whiting, librarian at New Canaan High School, the library is often the best place to look for personalizing instruction through assessing, reading and making.
Bloomboard Microcredentials: Personalized Learning
Competency-based Learning for Educators
Develop your skills and earn recognition for your professional growth
High-Tech Personalized Learning Without All the Screentime? It’s Happening in Georgia (Edsurge)
LEAP Learning Framework for Personalized Learning
LEAP Innovations developed this framework with educators in Chicago to answer the following questions: What are the core components of a truly learner-centered approach, and how do these translate into strategies for creating this experience for learners?

RTI and Blended or Personalized Learning

RTI and Blended Learning: A Perfect Pairing
Instruction and Intervention Systems and blended learning are certainly not incongruent and
incompatible. In fact, they are complementary and interdependent. Making purposeful connections between RTI2 and blended learning
isn’t simply convenient or interesting, it’s
necessary because combined, Instruction and Intervention Systems and blended learning have the power to transform teaching and learning and deliver on the promises of equity of
opportunity, equity of achievement, and college and career readiness for all.

How Personalized Learning Flips the Response To Intervention Model
The goal of personalized learning - most often implemented in a blended learning model - is to provide students with the content and pedagogy when and how they need it to accelerate learning and to improve achievement more efficiently. By keeping students in their optimized Zone of Proximal Development (Vygotsky), they can be provided immediate learning support when and at the precise level of intervention needed, allowing them to build mastery and advance faster with more analytical uses of content.
RtI And MTSS: Tips For Personalized Learning
Through Response to Intervention—RtI—and Multi-Tiered System of Supports—MTSS—schools have been encouraged to approach the idea of personalized learning for several years. Unfortunately, there is still a sense of mystery and discomfort around these systems. While tiered instruction does require an intentional effort, many of the strategies that make up tiered instruction and personalized learning may require only small shifts in approach. Here are some clarifications and tips on Tier 1 and Tier 2 interventions