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.
A New Start on Accountability
Building off the new blog series, #TheNewAccountability, how student-centered learning, meaningful data, and innovation zones can improve school accountability systems.
Rethinking the Education Experience of Future Generations
How blended learning in Rhode Island is proving the need for a new approach to educating, what means for other states and how its allowing students to learn their own pace, and pursue and develop their own interests and passions.
Good Work: Connecting Mission & Task
Tom Vander Ark's Sunday blog about mission-focused work continues with a focus on individuals and organizations connecting cause and gift, mission and task.
7 Ways Smart Cities Attack Poverty
How poverty hides in suburban communities and seven ways cities can counter its crippling effects.
Time to Rewrite the Code, But How?
The shift to blended, personalized, and competency-based learning suggests a dramatic change in state education policy. With these changes states should plan to rewrite their education code. But how? Two basic change mechanisms: Push & Pull.
Getting Smart on Big History Project
A Getting Smart bundle on a free, online, open source curriculum featuring units of study from 13.8 billion years in the past until today that seeks to expand our knowledge of history, the natural sciences, and the impact humans have had on the universe, in partnership with Big History Project.
6 Ways to Work Smarter, Not Harder
In a time of great competition, individuals and organizations set themselves apart by being super productive. They work hard but more importantly, they work smart.
It’s Time to Reimagine School Information
Introducing a national design competition to rethink and redesign the way in which key data is presented on school report cards so that they can drive decisions, spark discussions and support the efforts of state departments of education.
Design Challenge Launched to Reimagine School Report Cards
The Foundation for Excellence in Education launched a design challenge today to reimagine school report cards.
Good Work: Impact at Scale
Fresh from summer holiday, Tom Vander Ark's Sunday blog about mission-focused work is back! This blog focuses on innovations in learning, impact at scale, while introducing the newest members on the Getting Smart team.