Events
Let’s Make it a Whole Week!
Digital Learning Week 2020
Digital Learning Day is so important and so fun, we’ve decided to celebrate all week, February 24-28, 2020! This year, our focus is student-centered classrooms. And each day, we’ll highlight a hallmark of student-centered teaching. Imagine the impact of a major shift toward student agency, personalized learning, and equitable classrooms! Show your spirit — join educators everywhere with the hashtag: #DLDay.
Personalization
Monday
Download the PAACC Framework
Monday is the day to 
download LINC’s new PAACC Framework Playbook. This 27-page e-book is an excellent guide to help transform classrooms into student-centered, engaged, and innovative learning spaces that meet the needs of today’s students. The Playbook contains a rich set of resources and strategies aligned to the hallmarks of effective and innovative instructional practices: personalization, agency, authenticity, connectivity, and creativity (PAACC). By aligning lessons and project units to this framework, educators can implement a model or combination of models with the confidence that they are hitting the personalization target. The book is filled with practical tools and tips, aligned to our five days of Digital Learning week, with connections to online learning resources you can explore.
Agency
Tuesday
Join Us at DLAC in Austin
At the 2020 Digital Learning Annual Conference (DLAC)on Tuesday, February 25, 2020, 8:45 – 10:15am , The Evolving Role of Educators in Innovative Personalized Teaching and Learning Models workshop will be presented by Blended Learning in Action co-authors, Jason Green and Tiffany Wycoff. Location: Hyatt Regency in Austin, Texas
#BLinAction Twitter Chat
Engage with the LINC team on Tuesday evenings from 8-8:30pm EST on Twitter when Transformation Agent, Charity Dodd, leads everyone in sharing their ideas, thoughts, and strategies. Just hop on Twitter, search for #BLinAction, and join the learning.
Authenticity
Wednesday
Planning for Authenticity
Wednesday is our day to help you think about an authentic audience for your students’ work. So today, we’re highlighting our friends at PenPal Schools. 
PenPal Schools engages students in their work like never before! Authentic, global collaborations make any topic come to life. Students ages 7 and up connect through collaborative topics to learn and share perspectives with PenPals in 144 countries. Students study topics ranging from human rights and fake news to robotics and literature, all while practicing critical reading, writing, technology, and social-emotional skills. Check out their video!
Be sure to also download LINC’s Authenticity Planning Template. It’s a wonderful tool for helping you build out your PAACC-alignment for your personalized learning classroom.
Connectivity
Thursday
The Key to Student-Centered Classrooms
If classrooms are to be truly student-centered, then teachers must be supported as they help students develop agency, facilitate the learning process, and become pedagogical problem solvers. Join Jason Green, co-author of Blended Learning in Action, and Jennifer Bernier, a LINC Transformation Agent, in this highly engaging Cloud Coaching session. During our hour together, Jason and Jen will provide educators and leaders with a framework and strategies for creating student-centered classrooms through action research. Learn about LINC’s theory of action and get suggestions for how to better meet the needs of all students.
This is your chance to connect with educators from around the globe. Register to learn with us on #DLDay.
Presenter: Jason Green & Jen Bernier
Date: Digital Learning Day, February 27, 2020 at 3:00pm EST
Audience: Educators and Leaders
Creativity
Friday
Download LINC’s Digital Toolbox
To kick off Creativity Day on Digital Learning Week, we invite you to download LINC’s Digital Toolbox, a unique, curated collection of our favorite tools for blended and project-based learning, sorted by category. Download the Toolbox in PDF, PowerPoint, or Google Slides format.
Digital Toolbox Drop-In
During this 2-hour open forum on digital classroom tools, educators are invited to learn about the many tools available to them to support learning. Join Charity Dodd and Carolyn Hanser as they share their favorite apps, discuss ways to use each in the classroom, and showcase innovative classroom strategies.
Presenters: Charity Dodd and Carolyn Hanser
Date: Friday, February 28, 2020 from 3:00 – 5:00pm EST
Audience: Educators and Leaders