3 Takeaways to Look for at #TCEA14
It can be hard to keep up if you're at the conference, let alone if you're trying to follow along at home (or, even more challenging, at work!). Everyone has their ideas about who you should follow or if you should set up additional backchannels to have divergent conversations and, to be sure, the Getting Smart Twitter feed is a good one.
Afterschool Programs: Serving as Centers for Support, Access, and Equity
Antonio Boyd shares why afterschool programs serve as centers for support, access and equity.
Molly Martin: Ops & Learning Officer, Lumina Foundation
We talk with Molly Martin about Lumina Foundation's core mission. Improving the delivery/outcomes of developmental education is a key strategy to improving student success and an area in which Lumina continues to convene thought leaders and policy advocates.
Moving from Inputs to Outputs to Outcomes
A new Innosight Institute report, Moving from Inputs to Outputs to Outcomes: The Future of Education Policy, is worth a read and a board study session.
Video: School of One aTest Bed for Online Learning
School of One is one of a few test beds for blended learning and online learning innovations, also named in Robin Hood Heroes Awards. Check out this video.
Great op-ed from great edu-govs
The two most effective education governors in recent memory, Govs Jeb Bush & Jim Hunt, teamed up for a great op-ed today on the $5B innovation fund. I made some similar points recently on HuffPost.
A Bunch of B.S.: The Antidote for #EdTech Negativity
It was his third bit of advice, one that was also forever engrained in me through two amazing parents, that I have pledged to honor all my life. My professor said, “John, it really is this simple: you can be positive…or you can be negative. You know what each energy earns you. It’s your choice.”
Education Nation: A Mostly Great First Effort for NBC
NBCs Education Nation highlighted the administration/edreformer alignment on teacher quality and charters and was a mostly great multi-channel first effort to wake up America.
Magical Transformation to Digital is not Magic
Huntsville City Schools deployed 1:1 access to technology this year in partnership with Pearson. Scott Drossos leads Pearson's 1:1 team and visited Huntsville on Digital Learning Day.
Long Travel Day to India
After 6, 7, and 8 hour flights, we’re in Hyderabad with full schedule of microfinance and education meetings and field trips planned for the next 10 days. I’ve been through five security screenings in the last 30 hours. Obvious increase in security for international flights.