Leadership
Town Hall Recap: Learning Goals that Matter: Bringing to Life a Shared Vision For Your Graduates & Community
At the recent Getting Smart Town Hall we covered learning goals, design principles and shared vision statements.
Equity & Access
Clear Choices Lead to Clear Pathways
Antonio Boyd explores the potential of college and career readiness tools like Career Navideer.
Personalized Learning
In Memory of Dr. Roger Weissberg (Podcast Repost)
Remembering Dr. Roger Weissberg chief knowledge officer of The Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning (CASEL) and SEL expert through a podcast conversation from 2016.
Equity & Access
Bridging The Equity Gap – Are Innovation and Technology The Equalizer or The Divider?
Anne Olderog explores the equity gap that emerged during the pandemic as a result of the evolving education ecosystem and which innovations and technology advancements are helping to either bridge the gap or broaden it.
Competency-Based Education
Three Strategies to Engage Middle Grade Students in Data Science
Data education can take many forms, but all have the opportunity to change youths’ view of what data are and how data can help them to make a difference in the world. Chad Dorsey explores the opportunities that lie in data science curricula.
Leadership
The Why of Education: Doing Well and Doing Good
What do we hope for when we send children to school? What is the Why of education? Angela Duckworth pens her open letter about doing well and doing good.
Equity & Access
Teaching Social Justice and Anti-Racism: 5 Engaging Project Ideas
Kyle Wagner shares 5 project ideas educators can adopt to explore social justice and anti-racism learning.
Equity & Access
EdD Programs: The Untapped Entrepreneurial Talent Pool
There is an entrepreneurial aspect to EdD doctoral programs where we are tinkering with ideas and contemplating how to bring them to life. Dr. Vanessa Monterosa explores how we can tap into this idea.
Future of Learning
Cool New Schools
The Getting Smart team explores nine cool new schools that launched this fall which build on place-based opportunities and accelerating real world learning.
Equity & Access
Brooklyn Laboratory Charter Schools (LAB) Launches ‘Building Culture Back Better Guide’ for Education Equity
Educators across the country are looking for new ways to meet students’ complex and evolving needs. Brooklyn Laboratory Charter Schools released a new guide to offer schools across America practical strategies and insights to address the ongoing realities of COVID-19 and systemic racism.