Archive: 2016
What is Personalized Learning?
By: Natalie Abel. As an emerging and evolving field, it is essential to clearly define personalized learning to avoid confusion and frustration. By clearly articulating the definitions of terms, the field can close communication gaps and advance toward next-gen learning with increased clarity, effectiveness and scalability.
Vulnerability, the Advantage of Leaders Who Don’t Pretend
For educational leaders, setting out to challenge the status quo in a system filled with entrenched practices and powerful inertia, we have to we must be honest, and, at times, step out in vulnerability to create systemic change.
What to Look For: A Shared Vision of Powerful Learning
Broader aims and powerful learner experiences means a new list of things to “look for” in a learning environment. Over the next couple of weeks we’ll be sharing the five “look fors” in digital learning environments.
3 Tips for Planning Authentic PBL Projects
Find yourself asking "How do I design real authenticity into a PBL unit?" Here are three strategies for novices or veteran teachers in designing authenticity into a project.
EdTech 10: Everything You’re Missing While at SXSWedu
This week’s EdTech 10 is inspired by the news that you won’t find coming out of SXSWedu, all the stories that are keeping the home fires burning.
Infographic | Reclaiming the Classroom Words of Wisdom
In his new book Reclaiming the Classroom, Trenton Goble shares words of wisdom for teachers, principles, unions, and edtech companies.
Globally Competent Students Require Globally Competent Teachers
To efficiently and equitably develop globally competent students you must first develop globally competent educators. New Century International Middle School is an example of a school-wide global education approach that works.
Busting the Zip Code Curse with Blended Learning
Blended learning holds great potential to transform rural education by ensuring that every student has access to great instruction. “Online learning levels the playing field for students in rural areas,” said Susan Patrick, President & CEO of iNACOL.
Radical Student Choice: Student Designed and Demonstrated Projects
Takeaways and lessons learned from Adventure Days -- two full days when no middle school classes are held and each student pursues a project of their own design to showcase at the end of the second day.
9 Tips for Next-Gen Public Relations
The days of traditional public relations (PR) as we knew it are quickly coming to a close. With the fast paced, information world we now live in, you can get news in real time versus waiting for the evening news or next day’s newspaper. Here’s nine best practices for next-gen public relations our team tries to practice.