Archive: 2018
Post-Secondary
Infographic | Providing Students a Path to Being Really Ready
By: Janice Walton. As schools and districts across the country prepare students for life beyond secondary school, a key focus must be on ensuring these students are really ready to enter college and/or career.
Leadership
Let’s Meet Up at SXSW EDU!
This year we’re excited to be a media partner for SXSW EDU, and as part of that we’ll be on the ground live reporting on Twitter and recording audio for upcoming podcast episodes. Here are some of the panels we're most excited for--we hope you'll join us!
Equity & Access
Homework or No Homework? Maybe We’re Asking the Wrong Question (Part 1)
By: Erin Gohl and Kristen Thorson. Academic studies on homework have shown a spectrum of results spanning conclusions that homework is the key to academic success to those saying homework is a waste of student time that damages home life. But what if homework was different?
SEL & Mindset
Design Thinking: A Student’s Perspective
By: Isis Toldson. "In four short months, I will be graduating high school and heading off into the future... I know that my plans may change, and whether I pursue law or not I know that what I’ve learned about Design Thinking will always be apart of my life."
Equity & Access
Global Dignity Launch Materials to Encourage Development of Dignity
As the world becomes more and more interconnected, there are increased opportunities to interact across boundaries and borders. We see almost daily instances where those interactions can be uplifting and positive, but far too often we hear of instances of ugliness in the world. So what can we be done?
Personalized Learning
Why We All Need Mentors and How to Make it Happen
By: Rachelle Dene Poth. What are some of the qualities that they had which made them a good mentor and why? For me, I felt comfortable talking with my mentor, being open to the feedback that I would receive, and I knew that my mentor was available to support me when I needed.
Project-Based Learning
Moonshot Project Pays Big Dividends
Massachusetts middle-school students made national news earlier this year when they reached a moonshot goal of $1 million to fund research for a classmate’s rare medical condition, and they did it through high quality PBL--here's how.
Future of Learning
3 Ways To Model Collaboration and Partnership in Schools and Classrooms
Our challenge as educators is whether we walk the walk. We ask our students to collaborate, or partner, but do we truly do it ourselves? How can educators model true collaboration and partnering to our students?
Equity & Access
Inequity in Education is Your (and My) Responsibility
By: Kate Gerson. The popular way of framing these numbers is that they represent an “achievement gap,” but that doesn't do the issue justice. The problem is all of our responsibility.
Leadership
The Pittsburgh Personalized Learning Network: Helping Set the Course for Regional Change
Southwestern Pennsylvania has quietly emerged as an innovative hub within the field of education. While schools are exploring many new instructional approaches, personalized learning is gaining traction as an integral component to the broader transformational movement.