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The Case for Boundary Breaking Education
It’s the boundary spaces between sciences, countries, systems and people where conflict, innovation and education frequently happen.
Leadership
10 Roles & 7 Recommendations for Leading Toward Deeper Learning
By: Tom Vander Ark & Karen Cator. If we want more students to experience powerful learning, school and district leaders need to benefit from the same blended, competency-based and deeper learning experiences that they seek to create for students.
Leadership
Impact at Scale: Gates Foundation Celebrates 15 Years
In its 15 year, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the world’s largest foundation remains excited about the pace of innovation, ending several diseases in Africa, sanitation and hygiene in India, and new payment systems for the world’s poor.
Leadership
Preparing Leaders for Deeper Learning
A Getting Smart paper released jointly with Digital Promise that advocates for programs that prepare and develop school and district leaders who will create and sustain deeper learning environments in schools.
Ed Policy
The End of the Big Test: Moving to Competency-Based Policy
The use of assessment pilots and innovations zones where groups of schools apply and become authorized to operate alternative assessment systems will soon replace the frustration surrounding NCLB and end of year tests.
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Five Ways You Can Improve Learning Experience Now
By: Margaret Weigel. Each project involves unique components that form a complex process of translating data points into an actionable product plan, based on needs. But what are these data points? Here's five questions that a Learning Experience Design team must ask at the start of every project.
Ed Policy
DLN Report Card: Louisiana Leading the Way Through Course Access
By: Erin Lockett. The Louisiana Course Choice Program today serves as a national model. With its support, Louisiana students can choose from hundreds of online and face-to-face courses offered by over 37 active providers.
EdTech
23 Can’t Miss Edu Conferences
13 digital learning focuses, 3 regional, and 7 additional edu conferences that you should mark on your calendar today.
Personalized Learning
One Family’s Journey Exemplifies Anytime-Anywhere Learning
By: Max Silverman & Sue Wilkes. Max and Sue are currently traveling with their three school-aged children. In this Smart Parents blog post, they write about the experience of taking their kids out of school and on the road- and how their kids are keeping up with their school work and incorporating their experiences into the learning.
EdTech
Alma: A Holistic Student Engagement Platform
One part student information system (SIS), and another learning management system (LMS), Alma’s main goal is to reclaim administrative and instructional time for schools and districts balancing multiple systems.