Personalized Learning
Summit Public Schools’ Strong Culture and Personalization Has Arrived in Seattle
Washington state has welcomed its first charter schools and Summit Public Schools has established two schools in the Puget Sound region. A Getting Smart staffer visited Summit Sierra and describes personalized learning in action.
EdTech
(Finally) The Year of Mobile
For five years, people have been saying “This is the year of mobile.” This time they’re right; with nearly ubiquitous US coverage and phone penetration, it changes our assumptions about how people communicate, learn, shop, and play.
Leadership
60 Day Whirlwind Reveals New Schools & Tools
The future of education is being built, bit by bit, all over this country. New tools and new schools are being developed at a dizzying pace. Here’s a few things we’ve seen in the last 60 days.
Personalized Learning
1,500+ Smart People Doing Innovative Work
We just wrapped the 3rd Annual Smart Lists! After looking back at the past two months of publishing about 20 ‘Best of’ lists, we wanted to share a final list of every category we featured this year.
EdTech
School Systems Sitting on Piles of Disruptive Data that Needs to be Exposed
By: Nasha Fitter. Parents need more data points that impact student success, easier ways to find information important to them, and effective tools for creating change. The opportunity lies in big data. For this to occur, we must gather, index, standardize, and surface millions of currently unsearchable variables on schools.
EdTech
Influencing Chaos
By: Sandy Maynard. We are discovering that chaos drives change, change drives transformation, and transformation is where learning is elevated to a higher level. The element of chaos will not (should not) be removed, it is part of the cycle.
Leadership
Why Should We Teach Storytelling? 5 Reasons to Start Today
Students, now more so than ever, need to be telling their stories. If we wish to prepare students to mobilize and take action on our most pressing issues, we need to be training students to tell stories that speak to shared values to generate collective action.
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Powerful, Personalized Professional Development
To move from a vision for transformative professional development to reality hinges upon the ability to deliver quality PD at scale. An approach like the one described by Alvin Crawford in 5 Steps to Transformative Professional Development delineates a path forward.
Personalized Learning
Infographic | The Rise of Maker Ed
New infographic, that is designed specially for teachers shows how the “Maker Movement” has developed into “Maker Ed" and provides additional resources for joining the "Maker Ed" movement.
Personalized Learning
8 Key Elements to Supporting Online Educators
Managing an online classroom can be a departure from traditional teaching methods and teacher preparation needs to be customized to meet the specific needs of online educators. Here are 8 ways to effectively support online educators.