Archive: 2016
Project-Based Learning
5 Classroom Skills Graduates Can Take to the Workforce
By: Caroline Schmidt. The classroom gives future young professionals a chance to develop basic skills into employable qualities before even stepping foot in an office. Here are 5 skills new graduates can take to the workforce.
EdTech
5 Ways to Make the End of the School Year Great
We recently had the opportunity to gather some end-of-year reflections from friends on the importance of providing students an opportunity to reflect, provide feedback and a chance to advise the next year's incoming class.
Leadership
14 Tech Tools to Enhance Project-Based Learning
During the PBL World event this week, we attended a workshop where we learned about several edtech tools that can be used to help address questions educators might be having around project-based learning.
EdTech
3 Ways EdLeaders Can Level the Computer Science Literacy Playing Field
By: Idit Harel. If computer science education is necessary for next-gen student success, then it should not be treated like a privilege but rather a core piece of curriculum on the level of traditional literacy and math classes.
Personalized Learning
Infographic | Why It Is Imperative to Assess Social Emotional Learning
By: Jonathan E. Martin and Jeremy Burrus. Helping students develop noncognitive strengths is something nearly every teacher addresses daily. This infographic explains more on why it is so important for educators to assess social emotional learning in schools.
Personalized Learning
Promising Practices in Equity and Project-Based Learning
At this year's PBL World conference, BIE's executive director Bob Lenz spoke at length about the importance of preparing students for a project-based world, and an economic rationale as well as an equity perspective on the importance of PBL.
Leadership
Infographic | Professional Learning That Transforms
This infographic complements the Smart Bundle Getting Smart on Rethinking Professional Learning, and shares more on how High Tech High Graduate School of Education is leading the way in developing transformative professional learning.
Series
One Stone Launching Innovative New High School in Boise
One Stone in Boise is opening a very different kind of school this fall: a school rooted in student voice, empathy, innovation and student-centered learning that is dedicated to graduating an army of talented next-gen leaders.
Leadership
Build A Relationship Strategy to Support Students In-Class and Out
As college graduation dropout rates continue to increase, it is important for us to focus on providing students with the support they need for success through the 3 P's: purpose, people and path.
EdTech
The Shift to Digital Education: Four Hallmarks of Digital Learning Success
In The Shift to Digital Education, published in partnership with Pearson, we examine why we must embrace digital learning in today’s classroom, and then we discuss how to best do so.