Building Safety and Connection in Schools
How can we build more safety and connection within our schools? Kyle Wagner shares five ideas, from low to high risk, on how to amplify students’ answers to the question.
Navigating Racism and Violence: Creating Beloved Communities
How we can help students and children navigate conversations about race and violence in a climate where parents are fearful and traumatized by their concerns about school safety? Antonio Boyd details how.
Personalized High School Pathways
Gem Prep launched personalized grade 10-14 student-led pathways that encourage students to choose a career direction and request funding to take the first steps toward that career.
New Small Community Based Schools Have Big Implications
Gem Prep is launching several microschools called Learning Societies across Idaho that will be using their online schools curriculum, with experienced parents running the sites at locations including churches, homes, and business office space.
Tech Can’t Teach but it Can Help with Feedback
The pandemic illustrated that technology cannot replace teaching. Still, when it comes to formative assessment, a proven instructional method, there’s a lot tech can do to aid teachers and help accelerate learning.
Mind the Artificial Intelligence Gap
Educators do not need more data. Educators need usable data and the AI solutions that use data as it currently exists, rather than how we imagine it to be.
Edmund W Gordon Brooklyn Laboratory Charter School’s Centennial Celebration
As a culmination of our Centennial Celebration, Brooklyn Lab is preparing to share an exhibit to celebrate the legacy of Dr. Edmund W Gordon.
Immersive Hybrid College Experiences for Online Learners at ASU Prep Academy
ASU Prep is launching two new learning models in 2022-23 school year: ASU Prep Local and ASU Prep Experience.
GreenLight Means Go: Where Learner and Employment Records Are Headed
GreenLight is one of a handful in the larger Learner and Employment Record ecosystem solving for frictionless systems to store and share learning.
New Connected-Growth Platform inspires Learning through Small Group Journeys and Stories of Impact
There needs to be a different way of thinking about unlocking human potential, one that treats knowledge as fundamentally linked to practice, people as having rich potential, and any designed innovation as just one component – rather than the sole focus – of an empowering ecosystem.