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Can Great Public Education Be the New Normal?
By Lydia Dobyns: Students, educators, philanthropists and entrepreneurs will head to Washington to discuss reimagining the high school experience as part of the White House Summit on Next Generation High School. Lydia Dobyns shares her excitement, her hope, and 5 ways to support meaningful change.
Personalized Learning
10 Tips For Success in an Online Class: Student-to-Student
By: Grant Ryerse. Focus on these 10 things before starting an online class. It will strengthen your engagement increase your chance of online learning success.
EdTech
Meet DreamBox Learning CEO Jessie Woolley-Wilson
By: Octavia Goredema. "At DreamBox, we seek to do well in order to do good. We knew that pioneering adaptive learning in 2006 was not enough. Until we served every child who wanted and needed DreamBox, our work was not done." - Jessie Woolley-Wilson
Ed Policy
Nine Ways States Can Create Competency-Based Education Systems
By: Dale Frost. Our public education system needs to enable competency-based learning through an alignment of both policy and practice. Moving from a time-based system to a learner-centered system requires systemic transformation.
Personalized Learning
The Growth of Gamification: What it Means for Schools and Districts
By : Kelsey Voss. There are a number of gamification projects in the works. As expected, they are concentrated in the educational products and services, information technology software & services as well as professional & training services industries.
Leadership
5 Strategies for Leading College Readiness Programs
By: Braska Williams. Five strategies for leading college readiness college programs: Engage students year-round, expose students to new ideas, give students role models they can relate to, meet parents and guardians where they are, show students and parents that you care.
Difference Making
The Role of Student Voice, Passion and Communication in Reimagining Education Policy
By: Eli Neal. The 24 Hour Think Challenge, sponsored by the J.A. and Kathryn Albertson Family Foundation, is the first step in a long journey of changing Idaho’s education system. The Think Challenge initiates conversation with student voice, but there is an extended obligation to continue the dialogue.
Difference Making
Flipping the College Decision-Making Paradigm
By: Dr. Diane Hollems. Students at more than 100 schools throughout the nation are flipping the college decision-making paradigm through the Get Focused…Stay Focused! (GFSF) Initiative.
Leadership
Why XQ Super School Applications Should Include Opportunity Youth and Personalization
By: Scott Emerick. The most significant potential of the XQ Super School project is to focus innovation directly on, and in deep collaboration with, our nation’s lowest-income learners who most deserve a dramatically different high school experience.
EdTech
Beyond Badges: Why Personalized Learning Advocates Need to Care about Blockchain
By: Doug Levin. While digital badging and its underlying technical approach points a way forward to solving some of the issues associated with a ‘distributed proof of learning’ system, there has emerged another approach that might hold even more promise: blockchain technology.