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How Blended Learning Can Support Student Agency

Blended learning puts students in the driver’s seat of learning by increasing their voice, choice, and motivation.
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Education Achievement Authority: Nolan Elementary-Middle School

Charged by the governor of Michigan to transform the lowest five percent of the persistently lowest achieving schools in the state while simultaneously developing a new approach to educating students, the Education Achievement Authority is recreating Nolan Elementary-Middle School in Detroit. Modular furniture and flexible grouping arrangements accommodate a blended learning, student-centered, mastery-progression approach. The dynamic learning platform emphasizes not just cognitive skills but also collaboration and communication.
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Profile: Ingenuity Prep

Ingenuity Prep opened serving Pre-School and Kindergarten students in the nation’s capital, with plans to grow up to 8th grade. The school’s model is grounded on the four pillars of more time on task, looping teams of content-specialized teachers, a blended model driven by mission-aligned outcomes, and time explicitly devoted to 21st century civic leadership competencies.
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How Competency-based Learning Can Support Student Agency

When students design their own pathway, are free to fail/free to learn, and demonstrate mastery through self-directed assessment, student agency thrives.
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Profile: Montessori For All - Magnolia Montessori

The founders of Montessori For All, which opened Magnolia Montessori--a PK-8 public charter school in Austin, Texas--created a new school model that blends the best of authentic Montessori schooling (hands-on and self-directed learning) with best practices from high-performing charter schools (basic skills mastery to excel on standardized tests and state assessments) in a blended learning environment. Montessori For All provides students with standards-aligned experiential learning in a racially, culturally, and socio-economically diverse environment.
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Profile: Matchbook Learning

Matchbook Learning has been refining a student-centered, blended, turnaround school model. Students are leveled by what they know and can do, not by age or grade level. Each student progresses through a learning cycle of Learn & Practice, Peer & Teacher Conference, Apply, and Assess. Two schools supported by Matchbook Learning are profiled: Merit Prep in Newark, NJ and Michigan Technical Academy in Detroit.
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How Next Gen Learning Can Support Student Agency

Ownership. Freedom. Respect. Trust. Courage. Souls on Fire. Find out what student agency is and why it’s so important to education today.
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Profile: Thrive Public Schools

Thrive Public Schools, a K-8 charter school in San Diego, expands the concept of school beyond core academics to encompass social-emotional intelligence and "real world" understanding. The blended learning model at Thrive integrates technology throughout a curriculum built upon project-based learning, targeted instruction, and tinkering. Students progress at their own pace, are grouped in mixed-age clusters, and loop with the same teacher-teams for two years.
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How Project-based Learning Can Support Student Agency

Authentic learning experiences, reflection, student voice and choice, and connections to community elevate project-based learning by honoring student agency.
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Alpha Public Schools: Blanca Alvarado Middle School

Strong interpersonal relationships and character development are at the core of this San Jose, CA blended school’s model. Students learn a significant portion of core academic content online at their own level of mastery and pace and receive teacher-led instruction informed by real-time data from their online content. Unlike most middle schools, one teacher stays with a class of 34 students throughout the day and throughout the year.