Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been tagged as “personalized learning”
An Interview with Samantha Olson of the Colorado Education Initiative CRPE | September 18, 2018 Samantha Olson is the Vice President of Strategy for the Colorado Education Initiative (CEI), which supports districts and schools in personalized learning and systems change. CEI was part of the Regional Funds for Breakthrough Schools …
By Jenny Brundin, The Denver Post | April 1, 2018 Sometimes it’s tough for one group of kids to get going in a fifth-grade class at Colorado Springs’ Trailblazer Elementary. “When I get off track it’s sometimes because it’s loud in the room and I need a quiet space and …
January 17, 2018 CEI is excited to share the launch of two Learning Networks for two of our Big Bets — High School Redesign and Competency-Based/Personalized Learning. Our strategy release last September reinforced CEI’s vision that all Colorado students develop not only the academic, but also the professional, personal, entrepreneurial, and civic …
By Jenny Brundin, Colorado Public Radio | January 17, 2018 The first thing you need to know about Daniel Sharpe is that he grew up in a really small town of a few hundred people; Lake City on Colorado’s Western Slope. There he’d go to school, and the teacher would …
By Jenny Brundin, Colorado Public Radio | January 10, 2018 So what’s really the problem with school? Our school systems are still set up much like they were 100 years ago. Traditional schooling still relies on grades, tests, homework, lectures, competition, punishments and rewards. Read more
By Paul Beck November 3, 2017 Ask most anyone and they’ll agree today’s world is not like it was 10, 25, or 50 years ago. And the future? It will change in greater degrees, in ways we cannot begin to predict. Those of us invested in education are then left …
“All systems have to define their own context. Culture and ownership is key. At the same time, similar districts experience similar things—there’s a lot to learn from each other.” –Summit participant November 1, 2017 On October 30, more than 300 district leaders from across Colorado gathered at the Graduation Guidelines …
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Oct. 30, 2017 Contact Information: Susan Paulsen 720-502-4734 spaulsen@coloradoedinitiative.org Graduation Guidelines Summit Focuses on Prepping Students for Future Endeavors THORNTON, Colo. – Improving outcomes for all students is important to Colorado educators, and the state’s graduation guidelines were created to pinpoint those outcomes. Now, district leaders are …
By Amanda Avallone, Education Week | October 20, 2017 5:23 PM Classes are in session right now, so the halls of Thomas B. Doherty High School in Colorado Springs, CO, are empty and nearly silent. From behind the walls of the classrooms we pass, only the rumbling, low tones of the …
