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.
New Pathways
The Life of a Future-Ready School: Video Visits of Garden City School
Explore how Garden City School in Cranston, RI, redefines public education with innovative design and a future-ready learning environment.
New Pathways
National CAPS Network Promotes Real World Learning
Tom Vander Ark shares the real world learning happening at CAPS during a recent school visit.
Learning Design
How The International School of Prague Inspires, Engages & Empowers Learners
International School of Prague (ISP) is a great example of a progressive international school that engages diverse learners in work that matters. Its coherent learning framework is one that any school could learn from.
Place Based Education
Altus Schools: Personalized Learning, Flexible Schedules, Beautiful Spaces, Repeatable Quality
Tom highlights the innovation happening at Altus Schools and how its quality learning, spaces, and curriculum can inspire all education leaders.
Future of Learning
Five Mega Trends Reshaping Global Learning
Imagine school as a series of community-connected projects and skill sprints that develop leadership, collaboration and problem solving skills. Imagine a web of supports that help you make the kind of contribution you’re capable of making. Visit an innovative new school like Purdue Polytechnic High School in Indianapolis,…
Leadership
Where High School Starts with Leadership and Design Thinking
Imagine a high school that started with design thinking and leadership training. Imagine having the opportunity to prototype a solution to a community problem and earn a provisional patent. For students at a Kansas City high school, it's a reality.
EdTech
The Learning Must Go On
How even the coronavirus couldn’t stop agile Asian schools from functioning. With robust learning systems in place, it’s ‘business as usual.’
Schools Worth Visiting
Why and How to Open a Microschool
Distinctive pathways and competency-based learning are just two of the reasons why microschools are gaining popularity. A look at microschools in the U.S.
Difference Making
Alive With Possibility: 20 Tips for Creating Responsive Schools
Responsive schools create a culture of possibility for youth by giving voice to their interests today and exposing them to opportunities for tomorrow. They enable success in what’s next—in work, learning, and community service.
Schools Worth Visiting
Teaching A Big School New Tricks: The Huntley 158 Competency Pilot
Despite coming with challenges, some communities choose big schools for some of the advantages they offer. And hundreds of those big suburban schools across the country are innovating to personalize learning and connect youth to meaningful postsecondary pathways.