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Recognizing Remarkable Teacher Accomplishments

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Sep 14, 2016

By: Dr. Jennifer Williams. Today's teachers are in a constant state of exploration and discovery, so let's celebrate their achievements and recognize them as valued resources within learning networks.

Leadership

Project-Based Teaching: The Untamed Spaces of Innovation

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Sep 14, 2016

By: Jill Ackers-Clayton. Our challenge as educators is to determine what we need in order to provide the right environment where the collision between real-life context and real-life content are happening for our kids.

EdTech

Data is Great, but Action is Key

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Sep 13, 2016

By: Dr. James E. McCoy. As a superintendent, I need to empower principals and teachers with technology to successfully execute our educational development plan while meeting all standards. Here is how my district plans to do both this school year.

EdTech

Technology’s Unmet Progressive Promise

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Sep 11, 2016

By: Michael DeArmond. Personalized learning schools interested in supporting personalization through progressive teaching should ask themselves how they could use technology to support deeper, meaningful learning.

Ed Policy

Project-Based Learning Can Fuel Tomorrow’s Workforce

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Sep 10, 2016

By: Jim Postl. We're facing a serious skills gap crisis in this country. Implementing project-based and deeper learning with today's students can help bridge this need and fuel tomorrow's workforce.

Difference Making

Choosing Camp Counseling for Career Readiness

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Sep 10, 2016

By: Olivia Waldron. This summer, instead of taking on the typical office internship, I chose to become a camp counselor and ended up learning many real life skills still applicable to college and career readiness.

Leadership

It’s Not Just About the Projects

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Sep 9, 2016

By: Kaleb Rashad. When it comes to implementing project-based learning, it's not just about the projects but also about engaging the hearts and minds of the learners involved.

Leadership

Putting Empowerment into Practice

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Sep 8, 2016

By: Meriwynn Mansori. Sara-Elizabeth Cottrell and Laura Sexton are part of a small but important teacher-led movement to improve outcomes in U.S. world language classrooms, empowering other teachers to take their own risks and try new things.

Personalized Learning

America’s Best Idea and America’s Best Classroom

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Sep 7, 2016

By: Mike Mahalik. Not only are our National Parks "America's Best Idea" but they might just be our best classrooms as well, offering a wide variety of content areas to teach today's students.

Ed Policy

The Next Step to Paul Tough’s ‘Helping Children Succeed’

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Sep 6, 2016

By: Barbara Chow. Paul Tough’s excellent book “Helping Children Succeed" sparks an important conversation about doing so to scale, a more realistic possibility now that ESSA has restored a degree of agency to state education systems.

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From Fixed Standards to Competency-Based Mastery	BeginningFrom Fixed Standards to Competency-Based Mastery Beginning	PilotingFrom Fixed Standards to Competency-Based Mastery Piloting	ImplementingFrom Fixed Standards to Competency-Based Mastery Implementing
From One-Size-Fits-All to Adaptive Learning	BeginningFrom One-Size-Fits-All to Adaptive Learning Beginning	PilotingFrom One-Size-Fits-All to Adaptive Learning Piloting	ImplementingFrom One-Size-Fits-All to Adaptive Learning Implementing
From Prescribed Knowledge to Innovation & Inquiry	BeginningFrom Prescribed Knowledge to Innovation & Inquiry Beginning	PilotingFrom Prescribed Knowledge to Innovation & Inquiry Piloting	ImplementingFrom Prescribed Knowledge to Innovation & Inquiry Implementing
From Subjects as Silos to Transdisciplinary, Real-World Learning	BeginningFrom Subjects as Silos to Transdisciplinary, Real-World Learning Beginning	PilotingFrom Subjects as Silos to Transdisciplinary, Real-World Learning Piloting	ImplementingFrom Subjects as Silos to Transdisciplinary, Real-World Learning Implementing
From Schools as Self-Contained to Schools as Embedded in Communities	BeginningFrom Schools as Self-Contained to Schools as Embedded in Communities Beginning	PilotingFrom Schools as Self-Contained to Schools as Embedded in Communities Piloting	ImplementingFrom Schools as Self-Contained to Schools as Embedded in Communities Implementing
From Standardized Testing to Meaningful Assessment	BeginningFrom Standardized Testing to Meaningful Assessment Beginning	PilotingFrom Standardized Testing to Meaningful Assessment Piloting	ImplementingFrom Standardized Testing to Meaningful Assessment Implementing
From Institutional Ownership of Student Data to Student-Controlled Learning Wallets	BeginningFrom Institutional Ownership of Student Data to Student-Controlled Learning Wallets Beginning	PilotingFrom Institutional Ownership of Student Data to Student-Controlled Learning Wallets Piloting	ImplementingFrom Institutional Ownership of Student Data to Student-Controlled Learning Wallets Implementing

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