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EdTech
Stop Playing: Your Campus Needs an Esports Program
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?
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
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
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
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
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
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?
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.
Equity & Access
Balancing Design Thinking with Equity
4.0 is creating a space for members of communities to become founders, harnessing the experiences of 4.0 alumni to refine our programming, and redefining success alongside the communities those founders serve.
EdTech
Let’s Use ChatGPT to ‘Think Different’ About K-12 Schools
The way to overcome the current challenges dominating K-12 is to think out of the box from the mindset of our ‘users' and embrace the new and unfamiliar with curiosity and confidence.