Personalized Learning
Personalized learning is a mindset and approach to teaching that focuses on meeting each learner where they are and tailoring a curriculum that considers their interests, prior knowledge and skill level, and pace. Such a demand on the teacher requires sophisticated usage of technology in a combination of personalized, blended and online learning.
Personalized Instruction: The Key to Academic and Career Success
Everyone likes to talk about personalized learning that is focused on a student’s goals, but how do you expose kids to these things when their worlds don’t allow them to understand what opportunities are available to them? Noemi Y. Perez explores.
Social Studies…and the End of the World As We Know It
Howard Blumenthal argues that standard curriculum in education puts ceiling on what our learners can achieve.
A new school year – or a new era?
In this op-ed, Anne Olderog, Aya Asali, and Zenia Tangri of the consulting firm Vivaldi, explore the school year ahead, and how educators have the opportunity, amidst the ongoing pandemic, to take what they’ve learned and sharpen new tools and methods of teaching to evolve this upcoming new school year into a new era of educational learning.
Creating a Culture of Trust In Your Classroom: The Twin Pillars of Authenticity and Vulnerability
Authenticity has to be at the core of all of our movements as educators because of what is happening in the world on a global scale. Aaron Schorn explores ways to provide authentic and thoughtful experiences for all learners this fall and beyond.
Bringing Project-Based Mentors into The Educational Fold
Patty Alper authored a book entitled, Teach to Work, How a Mentor, a Mentee and a Project Can Close the Skills Gap in America. She presents her findings here.
The Four C’s of Student Success
Stephanie Malia Krauss explores how the 4C’s of student success must be pursued with as much attention, passion, and focus as the 4C’s of reopening schools.
In Memory of Dr. Roger Weissberg (Podcast Repost)
Remembering Dr. Roger Weissberg chief knowledge officer of The Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning (CASEL) and SEL expert through a podcast conversation from 2016.
Teaching Social Justice and Anti-Racism: 5 Engaging Project Ideas
Kyle Wagner shares 5 project ideas educators can adopt to explore social justice and anti-racism learning.
Cool New Schools
The Getting Smart team explores nine cool new schools that launched this fall which build on place-based opportunities and accelerating real world learning.
5 Steps to Boost Real World Learning in Your System
Would you like to see more real world learning in your community? Tom explores five steps to expand access to high-engagement valuable learning experiences.