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August 22, 2017
Marketplace Challenge: Offering Ed-Tech PD That Works, and That Educators Want
LearnZillion moved to a “curriculum-as-a-service” model, where the professional development is a blended model that supports using the curricular materials well. It can be in-person and online, but “instead of teaching about the philosophy of productive struggle and task-based instruction and the pedagogical moves that go with it, in essence all those things are embedded,” Westendorf said.
August 9, 2017
Nowhere is tech more important than in curriculum—here’s why
Rather than thinking of curriculum as a physical thing, Evergreen is flipping the script by using curricular resources as a tool that works with their technological investments to better meet the needs of their teachers and students, and ensures coherent, quality instruction across their district.
July 25, 2017
Louisiana Threads the Needle on Ed Reform
July 18, 2017
Ian Lotinsky of LearnZillion on how to build and motivate your development team
June 7, 2017
D2L Brings Brightspace LMS to All of K-12
Among the content providers working with D2L on Lessons is LearnZillion and the Florida Virtual School, which both produce course materials. According to Chapman, most teachers who use Brightspace are already using other tools such as YouTube, Google Classroom, LearnZillion and Microsoft Office 365 for Education, “and we want them to”.
June 2, 2017
LearnZillion, Lemann Foundation Partner on Curriculum in Brazil
The project will deliver academic content through LearnZillion’s curriculum platform, which the company describes as “curriculum-as-a-service,” a cloud-based system that allows educators to obtain, reorder, and alter lessons. That platform, which combines proprietary and openly licensed content, is already being sold to American school districts.
April 30, 2017
Practice What You Teach: Connecting Curriculum & Professional Learning in Schools
Because no full English language arts programs received a Tier 1 rating, teacher leaders joined with LDOE staff members and Common Core experts at LearnZillion to produce a complete ELA curriculum, which also provided the opportunity to prioritize themes and texts that reflect Louisiana’s culture.
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The idea for LearnZillion began at E.L. Haynes Public Charter School in Washington, D.C. where co-founder Eric Westendorf, was principal. After watching 6th grade teacher Andrea Smith teach her students what it meant to divide by fractions, Eric wondered, “Could powerful learning experiences be captured so that teachers didn’t have to re-invent the wheel every time they taught a standard?” He decided to find out. Working with Andrea and a few other E.L. Haynes teachers, he created a homemade website that featured screencasts of high quality, Common Core lessons. The website worked. Not only could teachers find examples of high quality lessons, but parents and students also benefited from the explanations.
Thanks to a Next Generation Learning Challenge Grant, Eric was able to grow the idea. He teamed up with former classmate and teacher , Alix Guerrier, and together they recruited an initial corps of 20 Dream Team teachers from across the country. The Dream Team grew to 123 the following year. To date, over 500 educators have been a part of the Dream Team.
The result is the world's first curriculum-as-a-service offering, combining digital curricular materials, an enterprise platform, and professional services to empower districts and states to take ownership of their curricula and provide their teachers with the best tools to make engaged learning possible.
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