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New Pathways

Jamie Merisotis on Human Work in the Age of AI

Tom Vander Ark
May 21, 2025
Leadership

Michael Fullan and Kaleb Rashad on Leading in a Culture of Change

Tom Vander Ark
May 14, 2025
Career & Technical Ed

Catching Up! | Curation, Vibe Coding and New Priorities for Education

Mason Pashia, Nate McClennen
May 9, 2025
Future of Learning

Celeste Bolin on How One Stone is Rethinking Assessment

Victoria Andrews
May 7, 2025
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Unfulfilled Promise: The Forty-Year Shift from Print to Digital and Why It Failed to Transform Learning

The Portrait Model: Building Coherence in School and System Redesign

Green Pathways: New Jobs Mean New Skills and New Pathways

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New learning models, tools, and strategies have made it easier to open small, nimble schooling models.

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Focused on charting and defining the future-ready education system we need to serve and prepare all learners.

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Focusing on how making a difference has emerged as one of the most powerful learning experiences.

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This campaign will serve as a road map to the new architecture for American schools. Pathways to citizenship, employment, economic mobility, and a purpose-driven life.

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We share stories that highlight best practices, lessons learned and next-gen teaching practice.

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The climate crisis is the most complex challenge mankind has ever faced. We’re covering what edleaders and educators can do about it. 

 

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Reopening Schools
Equity & Access

Reopening Schools: A Scheduling Map for Educators to Plan the Who, What, When, Where, and How of Learning this Fall

Eric Tucker
Jun 24, 2020

InnovateEDU and Brooklyn LAB have assembled a scheduling map for reopening schools this fall to help address the who, what, where, when and how's of reopening.

Leadership

Getting Clearer: Our Students Need Sponsors, Not Saviors

Kelly Niccolls
Jun 24, 2020

Kelly explains the importance of students having sponsors - concerted communities of mentors that in various roles and responsibilities invest in the talents and desires of our young people.

Future of Learning

Reopening Schools: A Getting Smart Webinar Recap

Getting Smart Staff
Jun 23, 2020

On Friday, June 19th Getting Smart hosted a webinar focusing on the challenges and complexity of reopening school in fall 2020. Here are some of the key takeaways and resources.

Future of Learning

Students Earn AA Degrees and Job Offers as Grads from IBM Supported High Schools

Tom Vander Ark
Jun 22, 2020

IBM has long been a supporter of early-college and dual enrollment schools. Tom discusses how these opportunities provide work experiences while gaining accelerated and affordable access to college.

Personalized Learning

One School’s Experience with Distance Learning: Why Personalized Learning Is The Way Forward

Guest Author
Jun 21, 2020

By: Zach Varnell. After eight weeks of being thrown into the unknown of distance learning, Zach explains how IDEA High School is moving forward with a personalized approach to learning.

Getting Through

Three Basic Needs that Must Be Met for a Successful Opening of Schools

David Ross
Jun 20, 2020

David Ross creates a Maslow-inspired hierarchy of needs to encourage educators to focus on a progression of actions to ensure their work will be successful.

Personalized Learning

Lessons from the Spring: Tips to Inform Future Distance Learning

Erin Gohl
Jun 19, 2020

With dramatic shifts to learning circumstances, educators are working to translate the physical classroom to the virtual environment. Erin and Kristen share lessons inform practices for any future distance learning.

Getting Through

Focusing on Learners and SEL: Looping Strategies to Welcome Learners Back

Rebecca Midles
Jun 18, 2020

As social-emotional learning becomes more integrated into our systems of learning, we must consider a specific structure to tend to the whole child returning to some form of schooling in the fall, looping.

Future of Learning

An Opportunity to Connect: Ed Tech, The Future of Work, Startups and Investors Unite

Getting Smart Staff
Jun 18, 2020

The Getting Smart staff sits down Danica Nilsestuen to talk about gener8tor’s OnRamp Education & Workforce Innovation conference coming up.

Leadership

Student Leadership: The Ultimate Course for Career and Life Readiness

Michael Niehoff
Jun 17, 2020

Students can address schoolwide challenges while gaining valuable lifelong skills focused on creativity, empathy, entrepreneurism, service, and collaboration.

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