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Was 2013-2014 an “A+” Year for Public School Options?
So while we prepare to embrace summer vacation, let’s take a moment to think of the families for whom this school year has been less than ideal. And let’s use the momentum of this year’s victories to prepare to make education opportunities available to more students in the school year to come.
Leadership for Education Innovation
By: Michele Cahill. At the heart of an ecosystem for learning is an ability to draw upon the assets of an entire city or community to support students as they grapple with the two primary tasks of adolescence: building competencies and forming their identities.
Ensuring a Brighter Tomorrow
By: Caleb Jones. Sometimes in life you come across people that are truly incredible, people that change the world. Julie Young is one of those people.
Conceptual Instruction And Middle Grades Math Blends: An Interview With Content & Intruction Expert Shara Turner
It’s important to first introduce concepts at a conceptual level so that students can understand the “why,” not just the “how.” This is how students gain deep understanding and a strong foundation so that they can increase their performance when moving toward more complex procedural strategies.
A School for All Reasons
The data is in. And the results are excellent! Once again, New Tech Network’s annual data report demonstrates that schools can enable all students to achieve college and career readiness regardless of socio-economic status, geographic location or ethnic background.
Smart Cities/ Humble Cities
By: Neerav Kingsland. Why are humble systems so rare in education? Humble systems are rare because their creation requires a massive shift of power away from a bureaucracy and toward educators and families.
4 Tips to Graduate College-and-Career-Ready Students
By: Katie McClarty. As problems are identified and addressed, the same data can help track student response to interventions and inform teachers, students, and parents of progress.
What Would Real Community Engagement Look Like?
By: Preston Smith. By taking the time to build a real relationship with parents like Maria and encouraging them to see their own leadership capacity, schools can become catalysts of broader community transformations.
4 Steps to Becoming a Maker Teacher
By: Gayle Allen and Lisa Yokana. There’s a missing link between real-world maker movement popularity and classroom making. But the mystery is solved if you consider that most educators have never learned how to teach making.
New Face of Interviewing and Polling: 4 Online Resources for Schools
By: Ray Mina. we have narrowed down some of the top web resources for interviewing and polling for that can be used in the classroom, with the yearbook committee, for project based learning and more.