Leadership
Gigabit Cities: Expanding Education, Employment & Entrepreneurship
City and EdLeaders gather at Gigabit City Summit's EDU to collaborate on education’s role in building smart, connected cities, with an emphasis on economic development.
Personalized Learning
Don’t Let a Piece of Paper Place Children in an Educational Box
By: Carol Iles. Carol's story of personalizing her daughter's education through homeschooling is a genuine example of a Smart Parent. Like Carol, we believe that, "All children can succeed."
Personalized Learning
Where is the Accountability in Education?
By: Andrew R. Coulson. Why we need credible evaluations, content and programs to show ability for renewed competition to improve the tools we give our teachers.
Ed Policy
NC Families Deserve Access to Full Time Online Learning
North Carolina students lack the access available in most states to full time online learning. That’s about to change. A recent law will require that two K-12 virtual charter school pilots open by Fall '15.
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What if Students Made a School?
By: Tom Carroll. As new education models grow are we ready to ask students to help us customize the staff, space, curriculum, tools, and time they NEED for deeper learning?
Leadership
Just Where Did We Lose Those Educational Keys?
By: Ace Parsi. As part of a comprehensive assessment system, performance assessments can better inform both policy makers’ and educators' and have the potential to deepen that learning.
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Learning On the Go: Great Podcasts for Your Commute (or Anytime)
Are you a on-the-learning? So are we. Here are some podcasts and select episodes we thought you should tune in to.
Personalized Learning
Why We Need to Teach Students to be Self-Advocates
By: Heather Benedict. How teachers and parents can teach self-advocay and why it's so important to the learning experience of students.
Leadership
Good Work: 10 Tips for Enabling Others To Act
Enabling others to act creates aligned action on teams and across cities. Here's 10 tips to get folks on the same page and moving together to make a difference.
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Getting To An Equation That Works
By: David Dockterman. With 60% of college freshmen unprepared for college math, and the rapidly growing number of STEM careers, an estimated 2.8 million of them by 2018. Our current equation for math education isn’t working. Here's an alternative.