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.

EdTech

ASU+GSV Summit: What It Meant For Educators

By: Rebekah Kim. It’s the on the ground experience, understanding of how students learn, and relevancy to what is actually happening in classrooms that puts educators and EdLeaders at the center of the ASU+GSV Summit.

Ed Policy

DLN Report Card Preview: Seeding Innovation in Ohio

By: Erin Lockett. The Digital Learning Report Card examines each state’s progress in implementing policies that give students access to quality digital learning. Today we're highlighting progress and sharing success stories from Ohio.

Leadership

Whose Role Is It Anyway?

By: Shawn Rubin. Systemic changes to teaching and learning will not be realized unless district leaders redefine their roles in this work. This is the guiding message in a blog and a white paper from The Highlander Institute that investigates the ​role of district staff in creating personalized and blended learning classrooms.

Leadership

Innovation Leadership in Schools

Following Twitter chats on #dtk12chat and #isedchat, and after conversations about what innovation leadership means for advancement of K-12 education, Lindsey crafts a job description that could serve as a template for building innovation leadership in any school.

Leadership

One Student, Five Lessons on Leadership

By: Javier Guzman. Javier, a former principal and regional director at Big Picture Learning, takes a student-centered approach to leadership and writes about the lessons learned for leading in Deeper Learning environments.

Ed Policy

DLN Report Card Preview: Accelerating Students in Florida

By: Erin Lockett. The Digital Learning Report Card examines each state’s progress in implementing policies that give students access to quality digital learning. These advances promise to revolutionize the current K-12 education model by giving students access to far more courses, and allowing them to learn in their own way and at their own pace. Today we're highlighting progress and sharing success stories from Florida.

Leadership

5 Steps to Effective and Transformative Professional Development

By: Alvin Crawford. Excellent and transformative professional development is in our reach, argues Alvin Crawford. By following these steps, we can move towards professional development that is blended, personalized, and transformative. These are changes, Alvin argues, that are needed in the field given that up to 90% of professional development is deemed ineffective.

Ed Policy

Districts Racing to Personalize Learning

The Race to the Top-District (RTT-D) program is contributing to the changes made by districts to personalize learning and blend learning environments. In many cases, it's working. And, new roles are emerging for teacher leaders as a result.