Archive: 2016

Leadership

Getting Smart on Rethinking Professional Learning

Jun 15, 2016

High Tech High Graduate School of Education and Getting Smart partnered to explore emerging and best practices in professional learning, as well as the importance the role higher education entities can serve.

EdTech

EdTech 10: School is Out, Learning is On

Getting Smart Staff

Jun 15, 2016

This week’s top ten list has news about some really cool opportunities for teachers to learn new things, test new tools and get inspired as summer vacation kicks-off this year.

Personalized Learning

6 Insights on Student Ownership for Your PBL Classroom

Bonnie Lathram

Jun 15, 2016

At this year's PBL world, our team asked educators, "How do you foster student ownership in your PBL classroom?" Here is what we learned.

Personalized Learning

8 People Who are Inspiring What’s Possible in PBL

Emily Liebtag

Jun 14, 2016

At this year's PBL World conference, education leaders are inspiring students, teachers and parents with key elements and messages of the power of what's possible in project-based learning.

Leadership

New Schools Flourish in Phoenix

Tom Vander Ark

Jun 14, 2016

We've been visiting cities all over the country and, for places like Phoenix, it's clear that any city making progress in education is doing so with an active intermediation layer.

Competency-Based Education

5 Lessons Learned in Pioneering Personalized Mastery Learning

Guest Author

Jun 14, 2016

By: Kate Bean and Sebastian Cognetta, Ph.D. Aveson Charter School has evolved its original personalized learning model into a new vision: Personalized Mastery Learning.

Leadership

Revolutionizing Teacher Professional Development

Andrew Larson

Jun 13, 2016

When I agreed to help open our new school and build the foundation of its culture, I had no idea the education I was about to receive. Here are the highlights of what I learned over this challenging process.

EdTech

15 LGBTQ Books From Preschool To High School

Lindsey Own

Jun 13, 2016

As faculty advisor for her school's Sexuality and Gender Alliance club, teacher Lindsey Own recently had the chance to read LGBTQ books for all ages for a book fair, and shares some recommendations for parents, teachers and students to read.

Personalized Learning

3 Ways to Reboot Remedial Math Class

Guest Author

Jun 12, 2016

By: Lawrence Smith. A growing number of math educators are finding success when they actually increasing the rigor of instruction for struggling students, using a teaching model based on an architecture of intensification.

Leadership

4 Lessons Learned from a Silicon Valley School Tour

Guest Author

Jun 12, 2016

By: Laura Gilchrist . A Kansas City teacher shares four lessons learned from her recent Silicon Valley school tour that she feels can help her and other community leaders empower their students to create, learn and lead in school and community.

	Beginning	Piloting	Implementing
From Fixed Standards to Competency-Based Mastery	BeginningFrom Fixed Standards to Competency-Based Mastery Beginning	PilotingFrom Fixed Standards to Competency-Based Mastery Piloting	ImplementingFrom Fixed Standards to Competency-Based Mastery Implementing
From One-Size-Fits-All to Adaptive Learning	BeginningFrom One-Size-Fits-All to Adaptive Learning Beginning	PilotingFrom One-Size-Fits-All to Adaptive Learning Piloting	ImplementingFrom One-Size-Fits-All to Adaptive Learning Implementing
From Prescribed Knowledge to Innovation & Inquiry	BeginningFrom Prescribed Knowledge to Innovation & Inquiry Beginning	PilotingFrom Prescribed Knowledge to Innovation & Inquiry Piloting	ImplementingFrom Prescribed Knowledge to Innovation & Inquiry Implementing
From Subjects as Silos to Transdisciplinary, Real-World Learning	BeginningFrom Subjects as Silos to Transdisciplinary, Real-World Learning Beginning	PilotingFrom Subjects as Silos to Transdisciplinary, Real-World Learning Piloting	ImplementingFrom Subjects as Silos to Transdisciplinary, Real-World Learning Implementing
From Schools as Self-Contained to Schools as Embedded in Communities	BeginningFrom Schools as Self-Contained to Schools as Embedded in Communities Beginning	PilotingFrom Schools as Self-Contained to Schools as Embedded in Communities Piloting	ImplementingFrom Schools as Self-Contained to Schools as Embedded in Communities Implementing
From Standardized Testing to Meaningful Assessment	BeginningFrom Standardized Testing to Meaningful Assessment Beginning	PilotingFrom Standardized Testing to Meaningful Assessment Piloting	ImplementingFrom Standardized Testing to Meaningful Assessment Implementing
From Institutional Ownership of Student Data to Student-Controlled Learning Wallets	BeginningFrom Institutional Ownership of Student Data to Student-Controlled Learning Wallets Beginning	PilotingFrom Institutional Ownership of Student Data to Student-Controlled Learning Wallets Piloting	ImplementingFrom Institutional Ownership of Student Data to Student-Controlled Learning Wallets Implementing

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