Maybe
I am showing my age, but I don’t think so; the SLC has always stood for Small
Learning Community and still does. Many
large schools like New Dorp High School, however, use the Small Learning
Community model to create smaller learning environments within big schools.
We have witnessed this strategy improve academic performance at many of our
bigger schools.
But
now, you will want to be on the lookout for the new version of SLC - short for “Shared
Learning Collaborative.” The new SLC offers
unique technologies and services to store data by schools, districts, and
states. This means educators with
information about academic learning can connect students, content, and tools to
personalize instruction for all students.
After
attending the SLC Camp in NYC I saw hundreds of educators, parents, and developers
get excited about what “collaboration” in the schools might come to mean. Renewed efforts to tag content are
facilitating the connection of data points to form instructional maps that can
guide individuals toward common ends.
If
you do a Google Search on “Slope of a Line,” for example, it will yield 12,900,000
URLs. The last time I checked, nobody had time to evaluate all that
content. The SLC, however, will allow you to tap into many content resources that
are immediately relevant to your students’ performances.
Whether
you are referring to “Small Learning Community” or now “Shared Learning
Collaborative,” the SLC makes sense in today’s schools.
Peter Bencivenga
President
CaseNEX - DataCation
Have you seen Skedula in NYC? If not watch it here: http://vimeo.com/39936168
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