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Can Personalized Learning Be Scaled to Ease Teacher Burdens and Close Achievement Gaps?

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Some say it’s time to finally commit to scalable personalized learning. After nearly two decades of teaching, leading, researching and writing—all with a focus on personalized learning—Smith is taking another step forward in his life’s mission to better understand students and help them learn.

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Personalized Mastery-Based Learning: How to Guide

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Questions Answered on Today's Show What is competency-based (or mastery-based) learning? Nicki Slaugh, principal of Quest Academy, explains the concept of competency-based learning and how it differs from traditional education models. What are the common misconceptions about competency-based learning?

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Why Mastery Based Learning is a Good Option

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Mastery-based learning used to be considered preparation-intensive. Now, with online personalized learning options like CK12 and Khan Academy , this differentiation is easier to create making it a good fit for limited teacher time. Personalized learning has become a popular buzzword for how to fix things.

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What If We Measured Learning Through Skills Gained, Not Time Spent in the Classroom?

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To that point, Knowles says that pushing to make the school day more flexible is not necessarily synonymous with reducing the amount of time young people spend together, or with swapping in-person learning experiences out for digital ones. “I There is value in peer groups, in learning to collaborate at school.”

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