Future of Learning
Future of Learning
COVID Forced Schools to Innovate: Let’s Build on What They Learned
Let’s not aspire to return to “normal” and instead use what we have learned and expand promising innovations to better serve all students.
Future of Learning
Eric Sheninger’s Disruptive Thinking in our Classrooms: Preparing Learners for Their Future
Eric Sheninger's “Disruptive Thinking in our Classrooms: Preparing Learners for Their Future" is a book that dares you to reimagine, rethink and relearn what you know about leading in the classroom.
Equity & Access
Smart Review: Blackbird Education Platform
Educator Rachelle Dene Poth shares Blackbird’s new middle school curriculum for bringing coding into the classroom.
Difference Making
Global Brigades Offers Students Transformational Learning Experiences, While Transforming Global Communities
For 15 years, Global Brigades has impacted international community-led sustainability via student-funded social responsibility; and they're just getting started.
Future of Learning
Remake Learning Days Across America: Sixteen Regions Across America Join Pittsburgh to Celebrate Learning
Remake Learning Days serves as a change agent to help communities design the future they envision, for families to be engaged in their child’s learning and for youth to lead the way on an unknown path for a bright future.
Equity & Access
How Helping Students Get Comfortable With Failure Can Increase Economic Equity
M. Archbold & R. Harris. Michael and Ron share how equity begins when students face challenges, find resilience and persevere in the face of adversity.
Difference Making
Thomas Homer-Dixon on Commanding Hope and the Nature of Complexity
On this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast, Tom talks with Thomas Homer-Dixon about his new book, Commanding Hope and rising complexity.
Future of Learning
Remote Work as a Long Term Solution for Schools
By: Kate Eberle Walker. In a post-pandemic world, to remain attractive as employers, school districts should consider remote work solutions to win the battle for employee retention.
Competency-Based Education
From Pandemic to Possibility: Now is the Time to Consider Competency-Based Education
By: B. Owens & J. Lee. The inequities exposed by the pandemic have forced educators to rethink their learning plan. Competency-based learning is helping to meet the needs of all students.
Equity & Access
Equity in Education: We Don’t Need To Level the Playing Field, We Need to Change the Game
By: Erin Lynn Raab, Ph.D. An over-focus on test scores, attainment, and limited outcomes has frightfully de-humanized schooling. We don’t need to level the playing field, we need to change the game.