Kindness Starts with One: Random Acts of Kindness Week 2018
Random Acts of Kindness Week 2018 features developmentally appropriate, standards-aligned lessons that teach kids important social-emotional skills. More on how to take part here!
Leading A Student-Centered Agenda: 10 Lessons from Mark Benigni
Meriden Public Schools is located in a small Connecticut urban center, and is recognized as a leader in blended and online learning with an impressive vision of Student-Centered Learning. In this week's episode of the Getting Smart Podcast, Tom speaks with Dr. Mark Benigni about his key advice for district leaders.
New School Rules: A Changemaker’s Guide to Innovation
Mobilizing collective community action to better supports youth and families can be an enormous lift--and school leaders almost always have a role in making it happen. But it’s the changemaker role where there is a big opportunity for contribution. Building an improvement and innovation agenda is complex work.
Keys to Success for Formative Assessment: A Professional Learning Guide
In order for formative assessment to be effective, several conditions must be met by and for practitioners. This new guide, designed to be a tool for enhancing formative assessment in an easily sharable and printable format, outlines these conditions.
6 Creative Ways to Revamp PD in 2018
By: Amy Jenkins and Kelly Freiheit. If we want learning experiences to change for students, we have to change them for teachers too. In this post, we look at 6 creative ways to revamp PD for teachers.
ASU Online: Extending Access to HigherEd
ASU Online is a program of EdPlus, a university R&D division committed to extending access and improve the quality of education. Tom shares what ASU Online is doing to make that happen.
A Place-Based Micro-School in the Heart of D.C.
Whether at the early childhood or the high school level, we see that leaders are listening to their students and developing responsive microschool models. Have a good learning idea? Try it with six kids tomorrow.
The Implications of Gartner’s Top 10 Tech Trends of 2018 for Education – Part 2
By: Jim Goodell, Liz Glowa and Brandt Redd. In what ways will business tech trends affect education in 2018? In this post, we look at 10 developments likely to have an impact.
The Benefits and the Limitations of Machine Learning in Education
By: Will McGuinness. The classroom is a complex environment and will always contain an essentially human element that no computer can replace. Here, we look at why this is the challenge at the heart of efforts to engrain machine learning and AI in the classroom.
3 Future-Ready Strategies for Early Learning
In order to help our young students excel in project-based environments, develop cultural competencies, and strengthen social-emotional skills, we must continue to encourage curiosities rather than compliance, questioning rather than silence, and play rather than excessive structure.