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
Popular Twitter Chats for Every Day (or Night) of the Week
It’s never been easier for educators to collaborate with peers and grow their professional learning networks. Learn the most popular education Twitter chats to join daily!
EdTech
EdTech 10: From Ideas to Implementation
The week's top ten news stories, resources and updates on teaching, learning and implementation.
Leadership
From 5 Kids To 25,000 Pounds of Fresh Fruit
Brandon Gillette discusses what happened when one group of students decided in improve their community for the better. Learn how an education project will produce over 25,000 pounds of fresh food annually.
Leadership
Teachers – Designers and Architects of Meaningful Student Learning Experiences
By Rhonda Hill. Strategies for implementing a project-based framework that allows teachers to design meaningful student learning experiences.
EdTech
Open Up: High Quality Standards-Aligned Math Curriculum
The newly launched nonprofit Open Up Resources offers openly licensed, standards-aligned educational resources that are accessible to all students, regardless of first language or special needs.
EdTech
Maker Space Promotes Problem Solving & Computational Thinking
By: Karon Weber. At this year's ISTE 2016, Microsoft's pop-up maker space booth showed educators how creating a great maker space promoting problem-solving and computational thinking doesn’t have significantly drain resources.
Leadership
3 Ideas to Make Your School’s First Open House Rock
Open Houses are often the first opportunity we teachers have to get off on the right foot with our new group of students and their parents, so here are three ideas I use to help make our open houses a success.
Leadership
PhotoBlog | Teton Science Schools & The Power of Place-Based Learning
I recently had the opportunity to visit Teton Science Schools, our partner in Getting Smart’s “Power of Place” campaign. Here are some initial thoughts from the many things I learned, as well as photos of that beautiful part of our country.
Competency-Based Education
Shifting to Competency-Based Education: A Tale of Three States
By: Karla Phillips. Our new publication "Policy, Pilots and the Path to Competency-Based Education: A Tale of Three States" shares the stories of three states taking different paths to achieve the same goal of creating state CBE pilot programs.
Innov8
EdTech 10: Smart Cities
It's officially Smart Cities Week, and we're celebrating with a blog sharing the 7 key attributes of “cities that work for everyone,” a Smart Cities book giveaway and ten new edtech stories.