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Purpose and Process to Ignite Intentional Conversations

Guest Author

Sep 18, 2023

Intentional relationships fuel intentional conversations - learn how to manifest them in your classroom.

Place Based Education

Video Insights – Start the School Year Strong

Guest Author

Sep 14, 2023

Eden Park Elementary School teachers foster a strong start to the school year, emphasizing student involvement in creating shared expectations and a community-focused learning environment.

EdTech

Stop Playing: Your Campus Needs an Esports Program

Victoria Andrews, Guest Author

Sep 12, 2023

Through gaming, students gain durable skills (as defined by America Succeeds) which are high demand skills that allow youth to demonstrate their knowledge and stretch their character.

EdTech

AI in Conservation: How Would this Change Our Interactions with Wildlife?

Guest Author

Sep 11, 2023

Artificial intelligence (AI) can provide a sharper edge to the conservation data collection and analysis tool. Student Mary Margaret Perkins shares more about her recent experience to Kenya.

EdTech

Six Steps to Build AI Accountability

Guest Author

Sep 7, 2023

Why pay attention to Generative AI at all? Because, in the right context and with the right guardrails, it may bring productivity gains for teachers, and some level of personalized learning for students.

Place Based Education

Addressing the Reluctancy to Transform Learning Environments

Guest Author

Sep 5, 2023

Learning Communities offer a more collaborative and holistically supportive environment for kids and adults alike. Nathan Strenge shares more in their latest post.

Learner-Centered

Using Schoolwide Design Sprints to Seed Student-Centered Culture

Guest Author

Sep 4, 2023

With a solid process and supportive staff, students can develop the confidence needed to take these skills to be critical thinkers and help solve real-world problems. Read more about how Macon Early College began using the design process as a way to plant the seeds for a more student-centered culture.

Personalized Learning

Not Your Typical Back-to-School Days at Learner-Centered Sites

Guest Author

Aug 30, 2023

Learner-centered leaders recognize the need to help young people lean into their personal development as a critical part of their learning and do so in community with the peers and adults in their environments.

Competency-Based Education

Why 20 Missouri School Districts Are Seeking New ‘Innovation Waivers’ to Rethink the Way They Test Students

Guest Author

Aug 29, 2023

The Missouri State Board of Education voted unanimously Aug. 15 to approve 'innovation waivers' for the 20-school Success-Ready Students Network.

New Pathways

Deeper Learning Requires Deeper Relationships?

Guest Author

Aug 25, 2023

Scott McLeod shares insights from visits at innovative elementary and middle schools across the country devoted to significant amounts of time for students and educators to simply be together in community.

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From One-Size-Fits-All to Adaptive Learning	BeginningFrom One-Size-Fits-All to Adaptive Learning Beginning	PilotingFrom One-Size-Fits-All to Adaptive Learning Piloting	ImplementingFrom One-Size-Fits-All to Adaptive Learning Implementing
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From Subjects as Silos to Transdisciplinary, Real-World Learning	BeginningFrom Subjects as Silos to Transdisciplinary, Real-World Learning Beginning	PilotingFrom Subjects as Silos to Transdisciplinary, Real-World Learning Piloting	ImplementingFrom Subjects as Silos to Transdisciplinary, Real-World Learning Implementing
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