Personalized Learning

Designing the Classroom of the Future: Technology as a Force Multiplier

By: Caroline Vander Ark. It’s my mission to ensure that all students have access to high quality personalized learning options. Technology can help us get there faster and bridge the divide that too many students still face. The innovative use of technology allows educators to reconfigure the traditional K-12 classroom and redesign schools to create personalized learning solutions that better serve all students.

Future of Work

Collaboration: Key to Successful Teams and Projects

By Tom Vander Ark and Emily Liebtag. Collaboration is key to successful teams and projects. It is sometimes thought of as a “soft skill” but in high-performance organizations, collaboration is the result of the intentional design of culture, structure, and tools, and the cultivation of individual mindsets and skill sets.

Future of Learning

Empowering Students to Understand and Advocate for Their Own Learning Differences

By: Dr. Mary Ann Wolf. We often ask teachers, coaches, principals and district leaders about their “why” and about those one or two children who drive their work in education. More often than not, educators hone in on that student who needed to be understood, who learned differently and who was able to thrive because the educator was able to personalize learning for him or her.

Leadership

The Six Flaws of “Traditional” Professional Development

The majority of teachers have experienced bad PD, but many can also name an instance that actually worked for their practice and improved learning for their students. In this post, we look at six aspects of PD that can be reworked to provide more beneficial PD experiences.

SEL & Mindset

How One Teacher is Teaching Her Students to be Kind

Kindness is a relatively easy word to define, according to Google it means “the quality of being friendly, generous and considerate” easy enough, right? Then why is “kindness” often so hard to put into practice? How do we go about teaching and learning, kindness?

STEM & Maker

7 Promising STEM Gender-Gap Solutions

By: Noah Rue. Some of the strongest forces keeping young women from wanting to pursue STEM-related subjects are nebulous and difficult to pin down. These 7 strategies are promising first steps for making progress.

SEL & Mindset

Mindfulness in High School

Some classrooms have a certain aura, don’t they? When you enter, there’s a sense of peace, community, clarity, and active presence from all stakeholders. That is the kind of classroom I want to create, and one way I’ve sought to accomplish this is by taking a course in mindfulness for educators.