Career & Technical Ed
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.
Leadership
Mapping Learner Experience
As students navigate their learning journey, we must deliver explicit, student-owned opportunities to set and map their course. Here's one strategy that think can be truly effective.
Personalized Learning
Silicon Schools Reflects on Five Years of Personalized Learning
Silicon Schools recently released a read-worthy report on the progress they’ve seen and lessons they’ve learned since their journey in personalizing learning began five years ago. Here's our overview.
Project-Based Learning
Little Kids, Big Ideas: Inspiring Project-Based Learning
Here are four practices that can help teachers design the kind of meaningful, project-based learning that simultaneously reveals children's hidden talents and genius while also connecting them to their community.
Schools Worth Visiting
XQ Super School Live Roundup
We believe it's important to be making a powerful case for new and innovative issues in education. Here's our take on the recent XQ Super School Live event.
Leadership
Impact Report: Building Capacity for Personalized Learning and More
Education Elements recently released its third annual Impact Report, "Building Capacity for Personalized Learning and More," examining the impact of personalized learning on districts across the country. Here are highlights of what they found.
Project-Based Learning
Two KC Schools That Use Projects to Engage and Transform
We recently visited these two Kansas City area elementary schools combining personalized and project-based learning to help young people develop valuable knowledge, skills and dispositions.
Future of Learning
Creating Tomorrow’s Moonshot Thinkers
By: Justin Aglio and Esther Wojcicki. Students in the Montour School District will enter an exciting new school building this year focused on "creating a culture of moonshot thinkers.”
Future of Learning
Virtual Reality in the Park
As part of a community partnership, Blaine County School District is bringing its virtual reality program out of the classroom and into the community to encourage lifelong learning for all ages.
Leadership
Better Formative Feedback: Work Worth Doing in a Place Worth Being
While everything about a learning environment may provide formative feedback to students, not everything qualifies as formative assessment. Here is what we do know about what formative assessment is and how it works.
Future of Learning
XQ Super School Live: National Television Event
About a year ago, XQ hosted an epic event revealing the ten XQ Super Schools. Those schools are making awesome progress, and so is XQ. On September 8, they will be making high school education part of the cultural conversation. Learn more here.