Posts by Getting Smart Staff
EdTech
Smart List: 30 High-Quality Learning Platforms
Platforms can help EdLeaders, administrators and educators accomplish a variety of challenging tasks. Today, we’re recognizing 30 platform providers who deserve a round of applause.
EdTech
How Achievement First is Creating an Interoperable Ecosystem
Achievement First schools are staffed with operations, logistics and technology teams that enable teaching and learning staff to focus on curriculum development, student outcomes and professional learning. Learn more about their impressive approach here.
EdTech
On the Road to Interoperability with Denver Public Schools
As one of the nation’s largest and most diverse districts, Denver Public Schools faces numerous challenges, not the least of which is its effort to provide schools autonomy in selecting tools and processes while still working towards data interoperability. Learn more here.
Innov8
Innov8: Student Support
This week’s stories share a variety of ways EdLeaders are supporting student learning. From data interoperability efforts to creating pathways to college, it’s clear that we're all working to help students be successful in the future.
Innov8
Innov8: Human-Centered Design
This week’s top news stories celebrate human-centered design with everything from a new collection of social-emotional learning resources to the launch of a cohort for teachers looking to transform education from the ground up.
Smart Teachers
Help Us Celebrate Super Teachers!
For this year's Teacher Appreciate Week (May 8-12), we’re excited to team up with Curriculum Associates to host a special sweepstakes. Learn more here and enter today!
Future of Learning
Building Innovation Ecosystems to Reinvent School
By: Rosie Clayton. Last autumn, I had the chance to tour the United States to learn about the various ways in which new education innovation ecosystems were taking form. I recently published a report on the experience, the highlights of which I share in this post.
Innov8
Innov8: Teacher Resources
We know that one thing teachers appreciate is a tool that makes their lives easier, so this week’s top eight news stories highlight new teacher resources that can help them save time or improve their practice.
Innov8
Innov8: The Future of Learning
This coming Saturday, April 22, is National Earth Day--a day to celebrate the world while also thinking of ways to improve it. Today’s eight stories celebrate the many ways education leaders are working to improve education for today’s students, as well as for future generations.
Leadership
SchoolSmartKC Supports Education Ecosystem Transformation in Kansas City
By: Emily Liebtag. SchoolSmartKC, a non-profit collaborative fund that seeks to improve the performance of schools in the Kansas City Public School system, recently announced that they will invest $563,000 to support low-income students. Learn more here.