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.
Leadership
Improving Conditions & Careers: How Blended Learning Can Improve the Teaching Profession
A DLN Smart Series paper that shares how blended learning environments can create more and better opportunities for teacher collaboration, enable differentiated staffing and boost meaningful professional development opportunities.
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Why Parents Should Support Student-Centered Learning
By: Nicholas C. Donohue. Personal stories, practical strategies and a framework for parents navigating the shift to student-centered learning. And, why Nellie Mae has chosen to partner with Getting Smart to tell parent stories in the new book, Smart Parents: Parenting for Powerful Learning.
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Executives and Principals Team Up For A Better Workforce
By: Dr. Elaine Liftin. Business executives, nonprofits and principals are working to improve students’ performance in often-struggling public schools.
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Horizontal Professional Development: Teachers Teaching Teachers to Develop 21st Century Competencies
By: Linda Hipper - Teachers teaching teachers and using professional development to prepare students with 21st century skills.
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How to Give Students a Chance at the Game
As Putnam describes in his new book, Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis, it is key that we move towards a collective responsibility, and a “return to being a nation where there are only ‘our kids,’ not just ‘my kids.’”
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Good Work: 5 Strategies for Developing Your Mental Model
Media stock plummeted this week. Investors updated their mental models of the media world. It's more important than ever that we improve owr mental model by reading broadly and deeply, seeking feedback, writing and managing your mindset.
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How School Districts Work
School districts have a theory of action but often can’t express it. Naming the theories in use is key to designing a system that serves a community well.
Leadership
How Districts and Charters Shape Local Strategies for Next-Gen Learning
By: Sarah Luchs. This article outlines innovative approaches by regional hubs for innovation, including the benefits and challenges of systems-based strategies and school-based innovation for creating next-gen schools.
Ed Policy
Integrating Career Technical Education with Competency-Based Education
Insights from Building a Strong Relationship between Competency-Based Pathways and Career Technical Education--a report from Achieve and NASDCTEc that identifies opportunities for collaboration, integration, and strengthened relationships between CBP and CTE leaders.
Ed Policy
Illinois Chief Tony Smith Celebrating Teachers, Pushing Equity, Promoting Innovation
Things are getting interesting in Illinois education. I’m not talking about the latest scandal in Chicago or the new governor. It’s the new state superintendent Tony Smith that makes Illinois a state worth watching.