Archive: 2018
EdTech
6 Articles You Must Read Before Fundraising For Your Startup
By: Li Jiang. For many founders, fundraising is somewhere between a painful experience and a necessary annoyance. But it doesn’t have to be that way if you are prepared to tell a compelling narrative, run an efficient process, and target the best long-term partner.
Ed Policy
What Policies and Practices Can Make Learning Personal for All?
Variabilities among learners in terms of pace, background knowledge, ability to focus, socio-economic status and more range widely across our contemporary cohort of American students. In this new report, we look at how we can meet all learners where they are at.
Future of Learning
Getting Ready for the Jobs of the Future
What skills will students need for the jobs of the future? How will the automation economy impact the employment landscape? Tom and Emily dive into the future of work and how schools can best support students and help them become career ready.
Network Effect
Getting Smart on Reinventing Education: How a Pittsburgh Network is Remaking Learning
Remake Learning is a loose network of 250 organizations including schools, 67 districts, universities, libraries, startups, nonprofits, and museums–all focused on engaging, relevant, and equitable learning. Learn more about their work here.
Future of Work
Skills of the Future: How to Thrive in the Complex New World
Tom discusses Pavel Luksha, founder Global Education Futures, new report on what graduates should know and be able to do. The report reviews global trends, changes in work and the implications for education.
Future of Work
The Future of Work Is the Future of Lifelong Learning
In order to engrain the habits of metacognition and continuous improvement into both ourselves and those we serve, we need actionable behaviors that we can personally model before we will be able to develop structures and cultures that will encourage those skills.
Leadership
Why You Need More Than “One Good Study” To Evaluate EdTech
By: Andrew Coulson. Patterns and repeatability from multiple field studies are more valid than single gold standard experiments when it comes to gauging what to expect from program impact. Why? Find out here.
EdTech
3 Steps to Build Your Own District-Wide Technology Solution
By: Shelley Hudson. With a focus on customization in our technology implementation, we have come closer than ever to our school board’s overarching desire to go to as few places as possible to do as much as possible with as few passwords as possible.
Leadership
School Choice Week Kick Off 2018
National School Choice Week isn’t just about organizations and groups. It’s about you! And any school-choice-themed activity can be an event.
Project-Based Learning
How Does Project-Based Learning Prepare Generation Z for the Future?
By: Breanna Reynolds and Nicholas Martino. As an ever-connected civilization in need of quick thinkers, problem-solvers and innovators for our future, it is imperative we consider how to best prepare this cohort for these radical shifts.