Leadership
Content that enables educators, edleaders, organizations and families to increase capacity, apply a growth mindset and implement what’s next in learning on behalf of those entrusted to them.
Improving Access and Equity in Blended and Online Learning
By: Dale Frost. Blended and online learning can leverage the talent of today’s best educators with technologies that extend their reach and can personalize instruction at any time or place. Here's five policy recommendations that states can adopt to increase access and equity.
Enriching the Path to Wisdom
By: Bob Lenz and Jonathan Raymond. Project-based learning schools are enriching the path to wisdom, ensuring that students have access to engage in relevant and authentic project based work, are exposed to work in the real world and are learning social and emotional skills that support college and career readiness.
White House Hosts Summit on Next Generation High Schools
Details from the first ever White House Summit on #NextGenHS that brought together innovative educators. During the summit, leaders convened to catalyze innovative thinking around opportunities to enhance and improve high school education and create more equity within education.
What the Story of Asdiwal Can Teach Us About Competency-Based Education
Effective and scalable CBE programs combine knowledge and application aligned closely to skills, expertise and industry expectations. Todd Hitchcock shares 5 key items that are imperative to those developing CBE programs.
EdTech 10: It’s a Small World
It's been a fun few days hanging out with Mickey and 3,000 of our friends at the iNACOL Blended and Online Learning Symposium. Here's 10 big updates in EdTech.
The Many Ways Personalized Learning Plays out in Education
From Project based to blended and even GenDIY. There are many ways personalized learning plays out in education and there's been a shift in the way people are talking about innovation. Recognition of the potential of innovation to help close achievement gaps, boost access and better prepare students for college and career is growing.
Meet DreamBox Learning CEO Jessie Woolley-Wilson
By: Octavia Goredema. "At DreamBox, we seek to do well in order to do good. We knew that pioneering adaptive learning in 2006 was not enough. Until we served every child who wanted and needed DreamBox, our work was not done." - Jessie Woolley-Wilson
Nine Ways States Can Create Competency-Based Education Systems
By: Dale Frost. Our public education system needs to enable competency-based learning through an alignment of both policy and practice. Moving from a time-based system to a learner-centered system requires systemic transformation.
5 Strategies for Leading College Readiness Programs
By: Braska Williams. Five strategies for leading college readiness college programs: Engage students year-round, expose students to new ideas, give students role models they can relate to, meet parents and guardians where they are, show students and parents that you care.
The Role of Student Voice, Passion and Communication in Reimagining Education Policy
By: Eli Neal. The 24 Hour Think Challenge, sponsored by the J.A. and Kathryn Albertson Family Foundation, is the first step in a long journey of changing Idaho’s education system. The Think Challenge initiates conversation with student voice, but there is an extended obligation to continue the dialogue.