DIY: Raising Money
Raising money is a function of delivering the right pitch to the right person. That's true for impact seeking investments from foundations and return seeing investments from private equity investors.
5 Key Ways to Implement Technology In Learning
The use of new kinds of technology will improve your teaching methods. It will serve to simplify the lesson planning process because you will have access to many new resources. Here are five ways you can include technological advances in your classroom.
Digital Learning Provides Customization, Motivation & Equalization
The emerging benefits of digital learning include: customized learning allows students to vary rate, time, location, and (increasingly) path--that means more learning per hour; engaging content and the motivation of instant feedback attack boredom and extend learning; and high access environments and take home tech for every student that will narrow the digital divide and extend access to quality teachers and content.
New Report Highlights the Real Teacher-Retention Crisis in America
Our friends from the Foundation for Excellence in Education and the Chiefs for Change recommend a new TNTP report, “The Irreplaceables: Understanding the Real Retention Crisis in America’s Urban Schools.” It examines the teacher-retention crisis through the experiences of a group referred to as the “Irreplaceables” – teachers who…
Autistic Student Feels Reinspired by Online Learning
I love online learning! It has changed my life. Back in 10th grade I had a bad attitude because school was very frustrating. There were distractions all the time. Classes were really stressful to me because of the chaos. Also, the teachers talked too fast and didn’t use enough visual aids, and they changed topics a lot. Then came online learning.
Q&A: College Guidance Counseling, For Free!
By: Jaclyn Norton. College Mapper, an online college counseling service, recently launched to provide support for students and parents in the college application process. CEO Susanna Cerasuolo sets out to increase access to higher education for all people through this free service. See below for Cerasuolo’s thoughts on the current-day process of college admissions, and ever changing nature of higher education.
Good Work: Impact Takes Vision, Values, and Good Timing
Making a difference takes a compelling vision, productive values, and good timing.
21st Century Learning, At All Levels
Last Friday, Mark Edmundson, an English professor at The University of Virginia, wrote a scathing critique of online learning in The New York Times. Mr. Edmundson's understanding of his subject lacked an in-depth intellectual or practical study of the myriad diverse programs available to students from grade school to graduate school.
Staff Picks: LPS, Innovation, Documentaries, Global Learning
This week's staff picks focus on politics of innovation, Leadership Public Schools, documentaries as learning experiences and global low cost private schools.
Principles for Model Online & Blended Learning Legislation
The International Association for K-12 Online Learning (iNACOL) released a Statement of Principles for Model Legislation in States. The principles are fully aligned with Digital Learning Now!, a framework for state policy released in 2010. The principles are a useful guide not only for state policy…