Archive: 2016
Course Access: How Guthrie Continues Working to be the Best Little School on the Planet.
By: Nelson Coulter. Small schools in rural areas often struggle to find teachers for high-need or specialized instructional areas. Read more on how a rural Texas school solved this by creating its own virtual school, offering its students much needed course access for graduation requirements.
7 Things Education Leaders Should Do Right Now
Being an education leader is complicated and challenging. Here are seven tips for the first 90 days, seven tips for the second 90 days, and seven things veteran leaders should do to advance personalized learning.
Making a Market: Demand Development & Aggregation in K-12
There are six demand aggregation mechanisms that are helping build markets, spur investment, and improve access to better products/services.
Why Children Who Play Succeed
Health researchers have finally documented what veteran teachers have long understood: A young person’s social competence is a major driver of future success. In other words, children who play well with others do better in life.
How Robotics is Transforming STEM in Elementary Schools
In elementary school, students are starting the transition to learning by reading, and robots make it possible for them to work through problems visually and experiment with concepts they are learning.
Creating Tomorrow’s Career Center Today
By: Shane Haggerty. What started as an initiative to “rethink” our school, has become a movement of redesign, innovation, and risk-taking not seen in the district for years.
It’s Time For A New Assessment System
The #ShiftToDigital and new federal flexibility makes 2016 the right time to think about assessment pilots and innovation zones.
Michael Barber: Become Your Own Career Agent
Whether employment or contracting, work is now a negotiation between a company and an individual. Barber said, “People want to learn, to have meaning, to work with great people, making a difference.”
Cognitive Learning Fuels the Corporate Wellness Movement
Organizations are using a variety of well-being programs to improve employees health and create happy, productive, thriving workforces.