Posts by Alesha Bishop
EdTech
When Does Inequality Grow? A Seasonal Analysis of Racial/Ethnic Disparities in K-8 Learning
Summer is the long-awaited season for many Americans, especially students. Aside from summer reading assignments and the occasional extra-credit project, summer is the time when students can collectively take a breather from homework and tests. The break from the school year, however, can bring on the dreaded “summer slump”: a…
Future of Learning
Smart Review: Doing Good
Alesha Bishop shares a book review on Doing Good, by Thomas A. Nazario and Kelly Quayle, a book that provides a clear, customizable ten-lesson curriculum to help students take actions to make the world a truly better place.
Future of Learning
Building a Kinder World: How Maker Education Can Solve Problems and Foster Empathy
By providing tools and mindsets for real-world problem solving, maker education encourages the development of essential academic skills, creativity, and empathy. Alesha Bishop delivers a powerful blog on the integration of social emotional learning that equips students to invent solutions to the problems they see in the world.
Future of Work
Helping Students Prepare for Their Futures with LinkedIn
LinkedIn has become an essential networking and professional development platform to use for the new global workforce.
Project-Based Learning
New Message Manual to Improve and Create Consistent Communications in Education
The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation, with the help of Hattaway Communications, recently released "Communicating a Shared Vision for Students and Education", a message manual designed to improve and enhance consistent communications about student success and educational equity.
Future of Work
CEO’s at Recess: Teaching Entrepreneurship in Elementary School
How can we sustain and build on these innate drives once young children enter school? According to Alesha Bishop, one answer is teaching entrepreneurship education.
Leadership
Smart Review | The Teacher Liberation Handbook
The Teacher Liberation Handbook shares author Joel Hammon's journey as a public school teacher to co-founder of the Princeton Learning Cooperative, and provides advice for anyone interested in starting an alternative education organization.
EdTech
Smart Review | Tech Out Your Class: 6 Projects to Meet Common Core & ISTE Standards
We know that we need to help children become competent and comfortable with technology, and Amy Prosser’s book is a practical guide that can help both teachers and parents incorporate more technology into the work they do with children.
EdTech
SXSWedu 2016: Inspiration and Innovation
A first-time SXSWedu attendee shares some of her favorite panel discussions and innovative edtech from this year's conference.
Uncategorized
ClassDojo: A Tool not a Teacher
We all know that tools can be used in many ways, both good and bad. ClassDojo is just that—a tool. As a parent, I don’t want to take a good tool out of a teacher’s hands, but I need to communicate with my child’s teacher if I feel a particular tool isn’t working for my child.