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Leadership
Strategies for Engaging Global Learners
By: Yumi Kuwana & Dana Teppert. We need to prepare students to live and work in an increasingly interdependent world marked by interactions with diverse cultures, rapid change, and complex global challenges for which easy answers do not exist.
Difference Making
Combining Working and Learning to Pursue Passions, Skills and Productivity
By: Parminder K. Jassal. Groups like ACT Foundation, Business Roundtable and the National Network are working to help people navigate the landscape of work and learn opportunities through developing online tools, blueprints and models. The goal is to make the work and learn connection more commonplace as a key driver of economic competitiveness, career success and life satisfaction.
Personalized Learning
How to Empower Students Through Service and Student-Centered Learning
By: Stacey Adamczyk. High school students deserve a safe learning setting, computer-based curriculum, service learning, and life experience opportunities. They deserve a hands-on, real-world approach to learning, and a foundational relationship built on trust with caring adults.
Difference Making
5 HigherEd Learning Trends About to Reshape the Workplace
By: Lenny DeFranco & Getting Smart Staff. Today's college students will soon be tomorrow's business leaders and the ways they're learning will carry over to the workplaces where they're headed. These learning rends are changing the learning experience for postsecondary students, and will subsequently influence the culture and systems of workplaces in the near future.
EdTech
School Systems Sitting on Piles of Disruptive Data that Needs to be Exposed
By: Nasha Fitter. Parents need more data points that impact student success, easier ways to find information important to them, and effective tools for creating change. The opportunity lies in big data. For this to occur, we must gather, index, standardize, and surface millions of currently unsearchable variables on schools.
EdTech
Influencing Chaos
By: Sandy Maynard. We are discovering that chaos drives change, change drives transformation, and transformation is where learning is elevated to a higher level. The element of chaos will not (should not) be removed, it is part of the cycle.
Ed Policy
Broadband, Data Privacy, and OER: Building New Learning Models Infrastructure
The shift towards highly personalized, mastery-based learning models will allow each student to customize learning trajectories toward college and career readiness. To drive this vision, we must narrow the “digital divide” and equip our schools with high-speed broadband connectivity.
Difference Making
Culminating Passions: Student Leadership for School-Wide Change
By Molly Irvin: How one student turned her passion for psychology into a school-wide, week long event to help diminish social stigma around mental illness.
Personalized Learning
Design Thinking in Action
By Michael Niehoff: Design thinking helps create future innovators and breakthrough thinkers. Michael shares a few examples of what it can look like at the high school and elementary level.
Leadership
Teachers: No More Excuses, Get Blogging
By Douglas Frankish: Blogging creates great opportunity for teachers and students. Here's the top 3 teacher excuses for not blogging with 3 reasons they should be.