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Leadership
Alumni Engagement | Three Ways to Encourage Involvement
Three main factors contributed to this kind of success: offering different and convenient points of entry, providing a product they view as useful, and leveraging Alumni’s existing passions and values.
Leadership
Is School Segregation Still A Problem?
Today, the number one predictor of a student’s academic achievement is not her race but rather her family’s level of income. And achievement gaps between low-income and high-income students are now much wider than those between black and white students.
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Framing the Learning in the Blended Learning Environment
In a high quality competency based learning model, competencies are designed on conceptual understandings within and between a content areas. These ‘big ideas’ provide the deep, rich, conceptual connections across disciplines that invite strategic and extended thinking.
EdTech
5 Great Apps for Future Scientists
These are the apps that have stood the test of time with my fourth grader. Each one of them different, but helping to cultivate the love of science and inquiry with the iPad.
EdTech
Education in the 21st Century Infographic
Implementing a blended model requires educators to rethink their methods of delivery and how they can relate to students. We are just being this revolution but this infographic helps define where we are currently, as we continue to develop and implement best practices.
Personalized Learning
US2020 City Competition, Building STEM Mentorship
Born out of a White House call for large-scale, innovative solutions to America’s STEM challenge, US2020 connects science and tech professionals with underrepresented K-20 students across the country for experiential, sustained science learning.
Leadership
Alumni Engagement | How Can Instagram Support Your Mission?
By: Brian Rosenbaum Since I began using social media to engage my peers around causes that were important to me back in graduate school, I’ve seen its potential to mobilize people. But converting passive friends or followers into active participants is tricky, whether you’re…
EdTech
LinkedIn and the Growing Field of Teacher Networking
Changes in how states use their budgets have forced some teachers to find alternatives for business networking. LinkedIn is more than just a social profile for your work life, it’s a chance for you to build a better career.
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New Assessments for New Skills
Without measurement the teaching of collaboration is extremely difficult. The current challenge is how to develop Collaborative Assessment tasks, particularly formative assessments that align with local curriculum, contexts and needs.
Personalized Learning
Practice and Provenance
To validate the best practices, I think we need provenance. Provenance refers to the origin of something and everything that has happened to it from its creation to the present day. Provenance is vital in the art world where people paying millions of dollars for paintings need to have proof that they aren’t forgeries.