EdTech
Stop Playing: Your Campus Needs an Esports Program Â
Through gaming, students gain durable skills (as defined by America Succeeds) which are high demand skills that allow youth to demonstrate their knowledge and stretch their character.
EdTech
AI in Conservation: How Would this Change Our Interactions with Wildlife?
Artificial intelligence (AI) can provide a sharper edge to the conservation data collection and analysis tool. Student Mary Margaret Perkins shares more about her recent experience to Kenya.
EdTech
Six Steps to Build AI Accountability
Why pay attention to Generative AI at all? Because, in the right context and with the right guardrails, it may bring productivity gains for teachers, and some level of personalized learning for students.
New Pathways
Innovative High School SchedulesÂ
Here are five sets of examples of innovative high school schedules that expand student opportunities while providing more collaborative time for teachers.Â
Place Based Education
Addressing the Reluctancy to Transform Learning Environments
Learning Communities offer a more collaborative and holistically supportive environment for kids and adults alike. Nathan Strenge shares more in their latest post.
Learner-Centered
Using Schoolwide Design Sprints to Seed Student-Centered Culture
With a solid process and supportive staff, students can develop the confidence needed to take these skills to be critical thinkers and help solve real-world problems. Read more about how Macon Early College began using the design process as a way to plant the seeds for a more student-centered culture.
Featured
Big Push for Small Schools Grants
The A Big Push for Small Schools program plans to roll out up to 20 grants, to fast-track the influence and scalability of select microschool models across the entire K-12 spectrum. We’re looking for diverse national models that utilize various funding methods. Our selection priority is to support models that cater to historically under-served communities.
Personalized Learning
Not Your Typical Back-to-School Days at Learner-Centered Sites
Learner-centered leaders recognize the need to help young people lean into their personal development as a critical part of their learning and do so in community with the peers and adults in their environments.
Competency-Based Education
Why 20 Missouri School Districts Are Seeking New ‘Innovation Waivers’ to Rethink the Way They Test Students
The Missouri State Board of Education voted unanimously Aug. 15 to approve 'innovation waivers' for the 20-school Success-Ready Students Network.
Equity & Access
Real World Experience with NAF Advisory Boards
NAF supports high school students' ambitions by providing fair possibilities for a prosperous future and contributing to a creative, highly skilled, diverse workforce.