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Vancouver Pilots Comprehensive Open Math Curriculum

Tom Vander Ark

Oct 6, 2016

Vancouver has been an education leader for 180 years. VPS is piloting open math curriculum to provide a common, coherent, guaranteed curriculum.

EdTech

Popular Twitter Chats for Every Day (or Night) of the Week

Guest Author

Oct 6, 2016

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

Getting Smart Staff

Oct 5, 2016

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

Guest Author

Oct 5, 2016

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

Guest Author

Oct 5, 2016

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

Tom Vander Ark

Oct 4, 2016

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

Guest Author

Oct 3, 2016

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

Stephanie

Sep 30, 2016

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

Carri Schneider

Sep 30, 2016

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

Guest Author

Sep 29, 2016

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.

	Beginning	Piloting	Implementing
From Fixed Standards to Competency-Based Mastery	BeginningFrom Fixed Standards to Competency-Based Mastery Beginning	PilotingFrom Fixed Standards to Competency-Based Mastery Piloting	ImplementingFrom Fixed Standards to Competency-Based Mastery Implementing
From One-Size-Fits-All to Adaptive Learning	BeginningFrom One-Size-Fits-All to Adaptive Learning Beginning	PilotingFrom One-Size-Fits-All to Adaptive Learning Piloting	ImplementingFrom One-Size-Fits-All to Adaptive Learning Implementing
From Prescribed Knowledge to Innovation & Inquiry	BeginningFrom Prescribed Knowledge to Innovation & Inquiry Beginning	PilotingFrom Prescribed Knowledge to Innovation & Inquiry Piloting	ImplementingFrom Prescribed Knowledge to Innovation & Inquiry Implementing
From Subjects as Silos to Transdisciplinary, Real-World Learning	BeginningFrom Subjects as Silos to Transdisciplinary, Real-World Learning Beginning	PilotingFrom Subjects as Silos to Transdisciplinary, Real-World Learning Piloting	ImplementingFrom Subjects as Silos to Transdisciplinary, Real-World Learning Implementing
From Schools as Self-Contained to Schools as Embedded in Communities	BeginningFrom Schools as Self-Contained to Schools as Embedded in Communities Beginning	PilotingFrom Schools as Self-Contained to Schools as Embedded in Communities Piloting	ImplementingFrom Schools as Self-Contained to Schools as Embedded in Communities Implementing
From Standardized Testing to Meaningful Assessment	BeginningFrom Standardized Testing to Meaningful Assessment Beginning	PilotingFrom Standardized Testing to Meaningful Assessment Piloting	ImplementingFrom Standardized Testing to Meaningful Assessment Implementing
From Institutional Ownership of Student Data to Student-Controlled Learning Wallets	BeginningFrom Institutional Ownership of Student Data to Student-Controlled Learning Wallets Beginning	PilotingFrom Institutional Ownership of Student Data to Student-Controlled Learning Wallets Piloting	ImplementingFrom Institutional Ownership of Student Data to Student-Controlled Learning Wallets Implementing

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