Schools Worth Visiting
The Getting Smart team visits hundreds of schools each year and is grateful for the opportunity to see high-quality teaching and learning in action. This series features stories of schools that share best practices, lessons learned and next-gen teaching practices that support high-quality, personalized, project-based learning for all students.
The Nuts & Bolts of Opening A New School
If you've already gained approval, found funding, secured a location and are in the final countdown for a new school, here's advice from experts on what to include on the final pre-opening checklist.
Local Work Done With Such Care that it Changes the World
Changing the education landscape can start with local work done well. Here are three examples of education leaders whose work at their local schools was done with such great care that it changed the world.
4 Steps to Reorganize Schools Around Learning Relationships
By: Gunnar Counselman. Here's a four step roadmap for building schools that consistently imbue students with the motivational assets that they need to succeed in school and life.
Next-Gen High Schools
There's never been a better time to transform a classroom or open a new school, and here are several examples of next-gen schools currently paving the way for innovations in education.
An Ambitious Plan to Make the Nation Proud of its Public Schools
New Tech Network sees a future where our nation is proud of its public schools, a goal its leaders are aiming for based on NTN's tangible success in redesigning 200 schools within districts.
Could an Extra Hour Be The Key to Teacher Retention?
By: John A. Dues. A nonprofit coalition of Ohio charter schools is working to solve its teacher retention challenge by reorganizing the school day to better benefit staff and students.
5 Lessons Learned in Pioneering Personalized Mastery Learning
By: Kate Bean and Sebastian Cognetta, Ph.D. Aveson Charter School has evolved its original personalized learning model into a new vision: Personalized Mastery Learning.
4 Lessons Learned from a Silicon Valley School Tour
By: Laura Gilchrist . A Kansas City teacher shares four lessons learned from her recent Silicon Valley school tour that she feels can help her and other community leaders empower their students to create, learn and lead in school and community.
Learning (and Teaching) Leadership in the Early Grades
Mukilteo Elementary School in Washington State teaches students leadership skills by implementing FranklinCovey's The Leader In Me, a program designed to teach the '7 Habits of Successful People' to younger students.
Blended Learning Strategy: Small Groups and Stations
A recent school tour of three Bay Area schools with some blended learning experts helped provide answers to some of the common questions we hear about how to implement blended learning.