100 Education Hashtags for Teachers and EdLeaders
Hashtags can help you take part in important conversations and make valuable connections whether you’re a teacher, principal or superintendent. Here are 100 of our favorites.
Smart Review | MasteryTrack: Powering Competency-Based Learning
Mastery-based progression is challenging to consistently define much less track. The newly debuted MasteryTrack, a free online mastery-based dashboard system, is designed to solve these challenges.
Dynamic Master Scheduling for Student Success
It's the 21st Century, so how could technology help simplify the complex and time-consuming task of master scheduling? Edtech startup Abl is offering school leaders a new and innovative option.
Teaching Core Values
Bailey Thomson, Director of School Operations for SPARK Schools, spoke at TEDxJohannesburg about the significance of teaching core values to students. Here are SPARKS five core values and what they mean.
Personalized Learning is a Transformative Idea Without a Transformative Technology
By: Neerav Kingsland. Without a technological breakthrough, the current personalized learning efforts will (at best) lead to modest improvements in the execution of common place ideas.
5 Emerging Trends in 21st-Century Education
By: Scott Freiberger. New technologies have been a boon for school leaders and educators seeking to collaborate and hone their skills. Here's what's next.
Smart Review | An Epic! Review From a Teacher and Parent
Whether for classroom or home use (or ideally a combination of both) the Epic! digital library is an excellent place for students, teachers and families to explore and grow a love of reading together.
Smart List | 40 Ways to Learn Almost Anything
Where do you go when you want to learn something, but it’s not a simple question that Google will be able to quickly answer for you? These 40 free resources are a good place to start.
Smart Review | Learning Transformed: 8 Keys to Designing Tomorrow’s Schools, Today
By: Eric Nentrup. The authors of this book are sounding the alert for the specific types of change that need to occur, and backing it up with research, numbers and influence. Read more here.
Getting Students Ready for the Gig Economy
Recent findings on the effects of the sharing economy are driving home the need to engage students in project-based experiences. In this post, we look at why.