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.
Crowdsourcing Districts For the Core
With a new pilot from UClass, districts are offered the opportunity to build an online PLN, exclusive to their district, offering a one-stop hub for curriculum solutions making it easy for teachers to find, share and organize district-wide resources.
Smart Procurement
Procurement in the highly decentralized U.S. K-12 education system has always been challenging, but the explosion of web and mobile applications has compounded these challenges in the last 3 years. We are both encouraged by the investment and innovation in the EdTech sector but concerned that purchasing remains complicated and inefficient.
Treat Me Like a Student
Many people have asked me what the largest challenge is in my career. Without a doubt the most difficult part of the job is creating and maintaining positive relationships with students. After that, everything, and I do mean everything else becomes much easier.
Digital Learning Now! Releases Smart Series Guide to EdTech Procurement
The goal is to create a framework for EdTech purchasing by offering practical advice to guide key decisions, sharing lessons learned from districts that have already made the digital shift, discussing the implications for blended learning, and providing examples of best practices in education policy that support smart procurement.
10 Sources of Inspiration for Next-Gen Learning Systems
Easier said than done, right? We could keep adding technology to current schools but that would just create a more expensive version of what we have.
Literacy Design Collaborative Launches CoreTools
Yesterday, LDC launched CoreTools, a teacher-created online instructional platform to guide teachers through a curriculum design and professional development experience that enables them to master the instructional shifts of the Common Core.
$12M Gates Grant Supports Literacy Tools for Teachers
With a $12M Gates Foundation grant, the Literacy Design Collaborative (LDC) launched CoreTools, a teacher-created online instructional platform to guide teachers through a curriculum design and PD experience that enables them to master the instructional shifts of the Common Core.
How Teachers Can Best Use Tech
We are in the early years of a learning revolution that has the potential to profoundly improve the reach and quality of American schooling. However, getting digital learning right is more about the planning than the purchase order. It’s not about the technology, but about what we do with it.
Staying Connected to Fulton’s Teachers: One District’s Approach to Boost Teacher Morale
School superintendent Robert Avossa is on a quest to visit all 100 Fulton County schools within a year. He’s already been to 70, traversing a 75 mile swath of metro Atlanta, Georgia. His Staying Connected visits, held before or after school, are voluntary, but teachers flock to them.
The Future: What 32 Ed Leaders Are Excited About
It's exciting to hear these leaders describing high engagement and multi-modal learning environments with cultures that embrace high expectations and provide strong supports--and personalized learning for educators as well as students!