Highlander Institute’s Strategy Refresh: Pursuing 20/20 Vision for Personalized Learning
Cathy Sanford from the Highlander Institute explains how they are shifting their focus for their 9th conference from Blended & Personalized Learning Conference to Personalization 2020.
Creating Culturally Linguistic and Responsive Classrooms: A Place Where All Kids Belong
Culturally linguistic and responsive teaching in the classroom can create meaningful learning experiences for students.
Empowering Youth to Address Real-World Problems
By: Matt Piercy. Using KIVA as a service-learning project in schools has the capacity to transform students’ lives while impacting the lives of others.
Building a Learner Variability Mindset
By: Tiffany Wycoff. LINC's Co-Founder and Chief Innovation Officer explains that to build a learner variability mindset, we must implement a new equation for teaching that includes strategically planning for variability beyond skill level.
Creating a Makerspace That Works
Jamie Back shares her recent learnings about setting up, maintaining, and working with students and faculty in her school’s makerspace.
The Competing Mindsets of Technology
This month's edition of chronicling the author's return to the classroom focuses on the challenge of shifting students’ mindsets toward mobile technology from entertainment to productivity.
No Excuse Not to Teach Climate Crisis Mitigation and Adaptation
The climate crisis and the rise of artificial intelligence will be the dominant issue in the lives of young people for the next 20 years and we have no excuse not teach them about it.
Civics for 2020: This Is How to Engage Future Voters
By: Kristen Thorson and Erin Gohl. From preK-12, these age-appropriate ideas for a more engaging civics education can help ensure the health of our political institutions.
Holacracy: Organizing for Change at D51
Holacracy is a system for agile self-organizing. At District 51 change management was and is being facilitated by a holacratic structure.
A Powerful Microsoft Education Experience at BETT
These are some of the new Microsoft Education updates and features that were promoted at BETT, the largest global edtech conference.