SEL & Mindset
Social Emotional Learning (SEL) is the deliberate commitment to including a framework of essential skills and dispositions that complement academics but historically have not been a part of curricular design. Learners acquire and effectively apply the skills necessary for self-regulation or managing and talking about emotions, forming relationships, setting goals and demonstrating empathy during their learning.
Equity & Access
Smart Review | Rethinking Readiness: Deeper Learning for College, Work, and Life
If you’re looking to expand the horizons of your approach to post-secondary readiness with a research-based 30,000 feet approach to the “why” and “how,” Rethinking Readiness can serve as a fount of ideas.
Project-Based Learning
Global Education For All
By: India Hui. Thrival Academy offers study abroad and global education to students from all backgrounds, particularly students from underserved communities, to open their minds to the many possibilities for their lives they may have never even considered before.
Post-Secondary
Creating Change-Agents: The Intersection of Critical Thinking and Student Agency
By: Jenny Pieratt. As educators, we know that in order to develop the next generation with the skills to innovate and improve our world we can no longer teach students what to think. We must teach them how to think.
SEL & Mindset
Creating a Mindful Classroom Environment
A special ed teacher and yoga instructor shares the importance of being mindful in the classroom and provides strategies to reduce stress for both student and teachers.
SEL & Mindset
Start the School Year with Three Simple SEL Strategies that Work
With so many terms, frameworks and strategies (most of which are really good!) in the SEL conversation, sometimes it can all get a little overwhelming. These simple strategies can be a great place to start.
SEL & Mindset
Students as Stakeholders: Talking About College & Career Readiness
By: Hannah Bartlebaugh. Students are the experts on their own experiences, but far too often their voices are left out of the conversation about how to improve education. Here's how to talk to them about college and career readiness.
Future of Learning
Proposal For An Innovation Diploma
What if we created a new competency-based high school diploma framework focused on innovation that represented preparedness for the automation economy? Here's an outline of what that could look like.
Future of Work
Getting Smart Podcast | KnowledgeWorks On Redefining Readiness
On this episode of the podcast, Katherine Prince, Senior Director of Strategic Foresight at KnowledgeWorks, discusses the future of learning and what it means to redefine readiness from the inside out.
Leadership
Activating a Network: Relationships, Trust and Being Selfish
By: Corey Mohn. To understand the power of a learning network, we must dig deeper than just participant numbers and focus on these three key elements.
Early Learning
Dialogue on a Content-Rich Elementary Experience
A blog I created sharing a taxonomy of views on personalized learning ranging from content-centric to student-centered resulted in this spirited email dialogue with education leaders about the role of content in developing language proficiency.