Leadership
Making the Shift from Community Engagement to Community Collaboration
By Christina Jean & Lisa Duty. The new Community Collaboration for School Innovation toolkit developed by The Colorado Department of Education, The Colorado Education Initiative, and The Learning Accelerator outlines the shift from traditional community engagement to active community collaboration in four stages.
Innov8
EdTech 10: Time to Kickoff CTE Month
February is Career and Technical Education Month! As part of the month long public awareness campaign we are celebrating with the publication of Generation Do-It-Yourself (GenDIY) blogs -- how young people are hacking a pathway to a career they love.
EdTech
Bloomboard Collections: Leading Off With Student Agency
Leading teacher development platform Bloomboard recently launched Collections of teacher resources. Collections are bite-sized resources that help educators learn how to put theory into practice. The new resource makes it easy for educators to learn, share and discuss solutions to classroom challenges.
EdTech
Edmodo Adds Enterprise Tools
With more than 63 million users, Edmodo is the leading K-12 learning platform. Recently Edmodo launched three enterprise tools, PD Tools, Management, and Collections. It's also available for organizations.
Difference Making
Thiel Fellows Teach us 4 Elements of an Entrepreneurial Mindset
While an achievement mindset can drive ordinary outcomes, it takes a different kind of mindset to innovate or create something new. That distinction is what led me to interview Charlie, Jihad, Madison, and Alex -- each of whom is an entrepreneur between the ages of 18 and 24 and a current or past Thiel Fellow.
Personalized Learning
How 2 Minutes of SEL Can Change the Tone for the Day
What if two-minutes could change the tone of the classroom for the entire day? We visited Margie DiMuzio and Brittany Noble's classroom at Carson K-8 School in Cincinnati Public Schools, an innovative blended approach to teaching SEL to see how they are using two-minutes to change an classroom tone and attitude.
Leadership
‘Most Likely to Succeed’ Tours all 50 States
Executive Producer Ted Dintersmith embarks on the second half of his 50 State Tour with Most Likely to Succeed with stops in the Northeast and Northwest meeting with Governors, Superintendents, parents, students and schools.
Personalized Learning
How Project-Based Learning Fosters Community Change
When we bring real world issues to the classroom and allow students to lead real work, through powerful project-based learning, students can have a big impact. How does project-based learning foster community change? What started with a dialogue around slavery and reading the texts of Frederick Douglass resulted in students doing something about modern day slavery in their own community.
EdTech
How to Turn Boring Lessons Into Engaging Content
By: John Logan. Great teachers know how to engage students in the classroom - whether that classroom is in-person or online. Here are five tips to try the next time you want to truly engage young minds.
EdTech
EdTech 10: Everything You Missed During #Blizzard2016
Doesn't matter what you call it - Snowmageddon, Snowpocalypse, or Snowzilla - the ridiculous amount of snow added to an already interesting week. Here are the top EdTech news stories you might have missed while you were busy surviving #Blizzard2016.