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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
School’s Out: What if School Did Not Exist?
"The School’s Out paper sets up an entry point for learner-centered leaders and their communities to imagine education from a blank slate while maintaining an honest commitment to developing actionable ideas.”
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What Can Student Learning Teach Us About Professional Development for Teachers?
By: Kathy Dyer. For true learning to take place in a professional development setting, teachers—like students—need to take ownership of their learning. How does that happen? Find out here.
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Helping CAOs Make the Shift to Personalized Learning
Explore the difference between managed instruction and next generation learning, and learn ten elements of comprehensive solutions to the challenge of helping chief academic officers reframe their work.
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The Brave Administrator’s Playbook for Upping Their Game Each New School Year
By: Amy Rodriguez. Often, when it comes to the new school year, the wheels keep spinning and the cycle begins again. But they don’t have to: focusing on professional growth is one way to become a more efficient and effective administrator for the coming year.
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Learn Next: A Toolbox for Educators to Transform Practice
Many teachers haven’t experienced transformative learning themselves, and as such are not given the chance to learn how to facilitate learning in these types of environments. This new collaborative effort is seeking to change that.
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What Should Graduates Know and Be Able to Do?
Tom sat down with Ken Kay, CEO of EdLeader21, to discuss community engagement and the role it plays in answering "What should grads know and be able to do?" Here's what he learned.
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How to Get Classroom Culture Right
Interested in improving classroom culture but not sure where to start? Here are several ways to help you take the first step.
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Professional Learning Through the Plan, Observe, Debrief (POD) Model
By: Denise Stringer and Mary Ryerse. The majority of teachers indicate that collaboration is beneficial to improving their practice, but many yearn for structures to make that process more focused and effective. The POD model of professional learning can help.
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How to Give Better Advice to High School Students about College and Careers
The Gates Foundation took on the challenge of improving postsecondary advising with the goal of improving advice for students at all achievement levels. Learn more here:
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The Innovation Inequity Paradox
By Matt Hiefield and Tom Vander Ark. Innovation in education is never a bad thing but, as Matt Hiefield and Tom Vander Ark explain, getting the balance right between fostering innovation and fighting for equity may be the challenge of our time.