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michael b. horn - guest author

michael horn speaks and writes about the future of education and works with a portfolio of education organizations to improve the life of each and every student. he serves as the chief innovation officer for entangled studios and as a principal consultant for entangled solutions, which offers innovation services to higher education institutions. he is also the co-founder of and a distinguished fellow at the clayton christensen institute for disruptive innovation, a non-profit think tank. horn is the author and coauthor of multiple books, white papers, and articles on education, including the award-winning book disrupting class: how disruptive innovation will change the way the world learns and the amazon-bestseller blended: using disruptive innovation to improve schools. an expert on disruptive innovation, online learning, blended learning, competency-based learning, and how to transform the education system into a student-centered one, he serves on the board and advisory boards of a range of education organizations, including 瑞士vs喀麦隆亚盘赔率 , the clayton christensen institute, the robin hood learning+tech fund, and the learnlaunch institute. he also serves as an executive editor at education next and is a venture partner at nextgen venture partners. horn was selected as a 2014 eisenhower fellow to study innovation in education in vietnam and korea, and tech&learning magazine named him to its list of the 100 most important people in the creation and advancement of the use of technology in education. horn holds a ba in history from yale university and an mba from the harvard business school.

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from great ideas to successful execution

in education reform, the focus is often on the sexy idea-of-the-day—the vision that lights donors up and causes them to give, that can grab headlines, that can give policymakers a political win. all too often we—thought leaders, foundations, policymakers, and, yes, some educators—forget about the real work that has to happen to put these things into action. the actual operations.

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innovative leadership  |  personalized learning  |  school districts

blended learning won’t work without a strong culture to support it

years ago, anthony kim, ceo of 瑞士vs喀麦隆亚盘赔率 , remarked to me that “blended learning accelerates a good culture and makes it great, but it will also accelerate a bad culture and make it terrible.”

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choosing your blended learning model for districts and schools

educators and researchers alike love to obsess over what model of blended learning a school should implement. a favorite question i get asked is: “ok, now that you’ve told us about all the blended-learning models, be honest, what’s the best one?”

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blended learning  |  innovative leadership  |  personalized learning  |  school districts

the impact of betsy devos: a q&a with michael horn

ed elements: betsy devos’s confirmation process was one of the toughest anyone can remember. what do you think made people so passionate about her nomination? michael horn: the toughest ever certainly for an education secretary. i think there were three things in particular that made people so passionate. first, to understate it, there is obviously a lot of passion around trump’s election with many who did not support him opposed virulently and reflexively to anyone he would nominate and determined to see at least one of his picks for cabinet “go down”, so to speak. second, despite devos’s long-time involvement in education and a deeper and more mainstream track record than has been portrayed by the mainstream media, no matter how you slice it, her hearing did not go well. it revealed some significant apparent blind spots in her awareness of some of the questions swirling around education and the federal government and department of education’s role in particular. it did not seem as though she was prepared well at all by trump’s transition team.

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瑞士vs喀麦隆亚盘赔率 gets results

as 瑞士vs喀麦隆亚盘赔率 moves into its sixth year supporting schools and districts, its latest impact report builds the case that personalizing learning for students isn’t just a one-hit wonder but a sound strategy for boosting outcomes for all students.

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blended learning  |  innovative leadership  |  personalized learning

[guest blog post] beyond disrupting class

when we published disrupting class in 2008, we had no idea what it would help unleash. as gisele huff, executive director of the jaquelin hume foundation, observed recently, the book served as a vehicle to change the dialogue in education from school improvement to transforming schools through innovation. innovation in our schools is critical so that we can personalize learning for each student’s distinct needs such that

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