What Makes an Effective Classroom Coaching Program?
By: J. Schuler et al. These five components make for a strong classroom coaching program facilitating your teachers’ professional development.
Shining a Light on the Future of Learning at Aurora Institute
The Getting Smart team reflects on the standout themes of the 2019 Aurora Institute (formerly iNACOL) Symposium, a conference aiming to move the needle forward for competency-based and personalized learning.
Exploring the World From Our Classroom
Promoting global collaboration is important to help our students develop skills for the future and to enhance their cultural awareness. There are a lot of digital tools are resources that facilitate these collaborations faster than ever before.
Design Thinking For School Marketing: Empathize With Your Community
Empathy is the first step in the design thinking framework. It’s a crucial part of the successful marketing of your school.
The Education Revolution Revisited: Chugach 25 Years Later
Rebecca Midles recants a visit to the Voyage School, part of the Chugach School District in Anchorage Alaska. The district is will be presenting and sharing more about their innovative school at the 2019 iNACOL Symposium.
It’s a New Dawn as iNACOL Becomes Aurora Institute
The annual iNACOL symposium started off with a big announcement. iNACOL has a whole new brand and we're breaking the news here.
ConnectEd Links Learning to Career Pathways
ConnectEd is taking Linked Learning national through long-term often grant-funded district partnerships. This month we observed two of these partnerships in action.
How New Models are Preparing Students for the Future of Work
New models are enabling students to acquire practical foundational skills for the future of work—a future that is increasingly distributed, diverse, device-agnostic and asynchronous in nature.
Curating Content for Classrooms, Families and Students
Digital tools that offer more than one purpose can help to streamline the workflow for teachers but also offer multiple options for students to do more with the content. Learn how to use Wakelet to go beyond content curation.
Centering Dialogue in the Classroom: It’s about WE, not ME!
By: M. Kokozos et al. Through enabling dialogue, educators shift their classroom climate from one of competition to one of cooperation, respect, authenticity and openness.