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.
Is School Segregation Still A Problem?
Today, the number one predictor of a student’s academic achievement is not her race but rather her family’s level of income. And achievement gaps between low-income and high-income students are now much wider than those between black and white students.
Preparing Teachers for Deeper Learning
A system of teacher development linked to the needs of hiring entities that awarded licenses based on demonstrated competence would provide personalized development pathways for teachers and ensure well-trained teachers for schools.
Activate Ed’s Next Rockstar: Rick Hess
The Activate ED campaign is a collaboration of The Broad Center, Education Pioneers, and the Strategic Data Project —all have missions to transform education by supplying top leaders, managers, and analysts to the field.
Principals Changing Public Education
SLN (School Leaders Network) has 40 networks of about a dozen principals each that work together with a facilitator on their technical and adaptive leadership challenges. About a quarter of a million students benefit from the impact of SLN.
Apply Now for New School Grants From NGLC
Calling all school visionaries and designers: at least $6 million is being awarded to new breakthrough model schools or total redesigns of existing schools. Next Generation Learning Challenges announces the second cycle of its fourth wave of grants to accelerate technology-enabled next-generation learning: 12 new school launch grants totaling $450K each for designers of blended, personalized, competency-based secondary schools opening in the fall of 2014.
Preparing School Leaders
It's exciting and encouraging to see some of the folks training high performing leaders thinking about blended personalized learning for leaders--not just students. It suggests the potential for more efficient and effective replacements for the system of courses, credits, and credentials. However, enacting these ten attributes at scale would require new state policies governing licensure.
LearnZillion: Dreaming Big About Collaborative PD
Historically, most PD has been the low engagement top-down model. PLCs have benefits of teacher-owned collaboration. The LearnZillion approach “combines the rigor and consistency of the top-down approach with the benefits of teacher collaboration,” said Westendorf.
No More Boring PD with Flipped & Blended Conferences
With all the cool conferencing apps and social learning tools, there’s just no excuse for running an boring old fashioned get together these days.
The ASD Catapults Schools to the Top in Tennessee
The ASD seeks to "dramatically expand our students' life and career options, engage parents and community members in new and exciting ways, and ensure a bright future for the state of Tennessee."
Hypothesis: We Can Change the Learning Curve
My life is a hypothesis—that personal digital learning will change the world.