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Alumni Engagement | Tackling Attrition
Ultimately, however, Alumni engagement is a two-way street. “Getting the job done” is important, but unless the Alumni know me, trust me, and believe that attending is worth their time, no amount of Facebook posting will make them show up. In the words of my mentor, “Movement-building is relationship-building.”
Investing in Innovation Pays Off for Math Students
Such a long-term funding relationship is rare; most giving spans at best three to five years. But MIND is rare, too. We have been supporting the organization this long because they have developed one of the best and most effective approaches to helping students learn math that we’ve ever seen, with strong rigorous and significant student outcome data to prove it.
How Google Glass Can Help Students Make Better Music
Improving the day-to-day class experience is an important use of the product, but Johnston Turner has bigger ideas about ways Google Glass can aid in conducting and composing. “I’m also interested in how the Internet and digital technology are changing our brains and changing how we think,” she told me.
It’s Our Bookmark We Can Share What We Want To….
One of my other favorite uses of Symbaloo is to curate class projects in the same place for viewing by students and parents. I like for students to have a forum to share and present projects. A quick Symbaloo webmix can get all your projects together in one nice board.
Thank Different
#EduWin is really about telling stories. Positive education stories. It’s about recognizing those individuals who, in their actions, tell a really great education story. You can read some of those stories here from our October Honorees.
Allow Students to Choose… Or Lose
Choice in education comes in many different flavors. The biggest and most lasting choice students (along with their parents) have to make is what kind of school they want to attend. Historically, this has been dictated primary by geography, but other variables are rapidly emerging.
Design Thinking in Schools: An Emerging Movement Building Creative Confidence in our Youth
As we help today’s students build their foundation of core academic knowledge and skills, we also need to look at the ways we are helping our youth build their confidence in their abilities to create. From name badges to state economies, we need our youth to know that they can empathically and intelligently shape the world. We need to help them develop the tools to create change.
Digital Learning Models Should Be Open To All
Online schools are a unique education model. They are rigorous and require significant amounts of student participation, parental involvement, and commitment. Engagement is the key to success. If an online school student is actively engaged, working diligently through their individualized learning program, they can achieve, regardless of their academic history.
Education 3.0: Helping All Children Reach their Potential
The alternative is to make achievement the constant, and allow each student the time she or he needs to learn. As described in the new book, Reinventing Schools: It’s Time to Break the Mold, this one change requires six massive changes throughout all aspects of an educational system.
Alumni Engagement | On Gratitude and Our Students
So this Thanksgiving when our students and Alumni go around the table to say grace – whether they sit down in front of turkey or tamales – many will list College Summit among the blessings in their life, for giving them the tools to get into college and the support to know they’ll make it to graduation.