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As educators seek to help students recover learning lost in the pandemic, they are turning to more personalized methods and finding inspiration in special education. But if anything, special education demonstrates the challenges of individualizing instruction. How can we apply lessons from special education, such as the use of Individual Education Programs, or IEPs, to personalized learning?

Lomax Middle School earns national honor Yvette Orozco, STAFF WRITER FacebookTwitterEmail Pasadena ISD’s Carter Lomax Middle School is one of two schools nationwide to be singled out for the Rise Award by the Summit Learning program.Courtesy, Maria Mata, PISD Communications / Courtesy, Maria Mata, PISD Communications Pasadena ISD’s Carter Lomax Middle School has made the grade, becoming one of two schools nationwide to be singled out for recognition by a national nonprofit organization tha...

USA Thursday 17 December 2020, by Lois Weiner Teachers’ activism since the pandemic began has focused on COVID-19’s deadly dangers, for all who use and work in schools. The GOP, Trump, and DeVos, once champions of online learning [1], in charter schools, suddenly reversed themselves, demanding face-to-face instruction everywhere, a stance that paralleled Trumpism’s disavowal of scientific evidence for how to save lives being lost to COVID-19. The most comprehensive movement for school ...

Share this article Share this article REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Dec. 16, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Gradient Learning, the nonprofit that leads the Summit Learning program, announced the inaugural recipients of the national Rise Award, which honors schools commitment to improving the quality of teaching and learning. Prairie Heights Middle School in Evans, Colo., and Carter Lomax Middle School in Pasadena, Texas, are being recognized for building systems and a culture that prepares students wi...

Randi Weingarten: Always thought we could reopen schools with ‘safeguards’ (Editor’s note: Shortly after this piece appeared, Biden selected Miguel Cardona to be  Secretary of Education.  Weiner’s analysis of what the movement can expect and demand from Cardona can be found here.) Teachers’ activism since the pandemic began has focused on COVID-19’s deadly dangers, for all who use and work in schools. The GOP, Trump, and DeVos, once champions of online learning, in charter schools...