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Design Thinking in Action
By Michael Niehoff: Design thinking helps create future innovators and breakthrough thinkers. Michael shares a few examples of what it can look like at the high school and elementary level.
Teachers: No More Excuses, Get Blogging
By Douglas Frankish: Blogging creates great opportunity for teachers and students. Here's the top 3 teacher excuses for not blogging with 3 reasons they should be.
Welcome to the Wonderful World of Self-Blended Learning
By: Bernard Bull. A form of blended learning that was led and designed by the students instead of the teachers. You’ve heard of blended learning. You’ve probably read about self-directed learning. Put them together and you get self-blended learning,
Improving Access and Equity in Blended and Online Learning
By: Dale Frost. Blended and online learning can leverage the talent of today’s best educators with technologies that extend their reach and can personalize instruction at any time or place. Here's five policy recommendations that states can adopt to increase access and equity.
Enriching the Path to Wisdom
By: Bob Lenz and Jonathan Raymond. Project-based learning schools are enriching the path to wisdom, ensuring that students have access to engage in relevant and authentic project based work, are exposed to work in the real world and are learning social and emotional skills that support college and career readiness.
What the Story of Asdiwal Can Teach Us About Competency-Based Education
Effective and scalable CBE programs combine knowledge and application aligned closely to skills, expertise and industry expectations. Todd Hitchcock shares 5 key items that are imperative to those developing CBE programs.
Can Great Public Education Be the New Normal?
By Lydia Dobyns: Students, educators, philanthropists and entrepreneurs will head to Washington to discuss reimagining the high school experience as part of the White House Summit on Next Generation High School. Lydia Dobyns shares her excitement, her hope, and 5 ways to support meaningful change.
10 Tips For Success in an Online Class: Student-to-Student
By: Grant Ryerse. Focus on these 10 things before starting an online class. It will strengthen your engagement increase your chance of online learning success.
Meet DreamBox Learning CEO Jessie Woolley-Wilson
By: Octavia Goredema. "At DreamBox, we seek to do well in order to do good. We knew that pioneering adaptive learning in 2006 was not enough. Until we served every child who wanted and needed DreamBox, our work was not done." - Jessie Woolley-Wilson
Nine Ways States Can Create Competency-Based Education Systems
By: Dale Frost. Our public education system needs to enable competency-based learning through an alignment of both policy and practice. Moving from a time-based system to a learner-centered system requires systemic transformation.