Career & Technical Ed
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Leadership
A Gifted Ed Teacher’s Secrets to Success
By: Stephen Noonoo. Gifted education teacher Alison Alowonle shares how she keeps her exceptional students (and their families) engaged in their learning process, as well as advice for those interested in getting involved as an educator in the space.
Innov8
Innov8: Summer is Here!
Summer is almost here, but before you put down your #2 pencils and run for the door, check out these eight stories featuring the latest education resources and innovations in learning!
Leadership
Back-Office Process Innovation Can Impact Performance as Much as Tech Innovation
By: Sara Chou. School districts are drowning in paperwork. Ask most school or district employees what they dread most, and there's a good chance that paperwork will be close to the top of the list for teachers, principals, school site secretaries and district admins.
Place Based Education
A Literature Class in a Museum: A Place-Based Experience
This multi-authored post shares a number of perspectives on a college literature class on Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and some of their contemporaries, which was taught on-site at the Stowe and Twain house museums in Hartford, Connecticut.
Future of Learning
The Two Most Important Technologies Of Our Time Are Also The Most Dangerous
By: Barry Schuler. Artificial Intelligence and Gene Editing are the two most important technologies of our time, and so powerful we can't predict the outcomes of their future impact. Are we evolved enough to develop them responsibly?
Project-Based Learning
How Capistrano USD is Transforming its Writing Instruction
By: Virginia Reischl. By aligning our writing goals and rubrics vertically from grades 6-12 and horizontally across disciplines, we are bringing clarity and continuity to our teaching of writing skills. Here’s how we are approaching this ambitious task.
Leadership
Supporting Student Agency of SEL
By: Jessica Berlinski. Let's support students in owning their own SEL by providing them with the tools they need to develop agency. Here are two unique programs that represent powerful methods for building SEL agency for future career and life success.
Personalized Learning
Is Personalized Learning the Answer?
By: Mark Lang. Education is under serious challenges today, and many believe that personalized learning is the answer. Before everyone jumps in, however, we need to examine its ability to address the real problems.
Personalized Learning
What’s Really Better: Workforce Training or Four-Year College?
By: Stuart Udell. Today's Career Technical Education (CTE) model delivers a vastly different set of pathways for students than in the past, leading to high school graduation and meaningful, skilled 21st-century jobs.
STEM & Maker
Celebrating #EdCorpsWeek: How Student Entrepreneurs Are Contributing
By: Elyse Burden. Somewhere along the way we decided young people could only do what they were taught or told – and they definitely weren’t supposed to be participants in the ‘real world’ until they graduated. Here are three student businesses that are shifting the paradigm.