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65 Elementary & Middle Schools Worth Visiting
School visits are a great way to learn and are key to developing an innovation mindset. Based on a couple thousand school visits and with help from colleagues and readers, we’ve compiled a list of 66 U.S. Elementary schools worth visiting.
For the Parents, When You Know What You Don’t Know
It is encouraging to find a book that is so well-conceived and large-hearted, engaging and humbling at the same time, where the voices are real, the advice authentic, and the situations familiar.
10 Tips For Success in an Online Class: Student-to-Student
By: Grant Ryerse. Focus on these 10 things before starting an online class. It will strengthen your engagement increase your chance of online learning success.
How Essential Questions Drive Purposeful Learning
Essential Questions promote student learning in a number of ways. When teachers use essential questions they model important skills to students and show them the types of questions they should be asking themselves.
The Role of Student Voice, Passion and Communication in Reimagining Education Policy
By: Eli Neal. The 24 Hour Think Challenge, sponsored by the J.A. and Kathryn Albertson Family Foundation, is the first step in a long journey of changing Idaho’s education system. The Think Challenge initiates conversation with student voice, but there is an extended obligation to continue the dialogue.
EdTech 10: Be in the Know Before iNACOL
Next week we’ll be in Orlando on the ground live blogging, podcasting, and sharing GenDIY and Smart Parents at the iNACOL Symposium. As we pack, we freshen up with EdTech news to be in the know about before heading to the education industry’s leading K-12 event.
Smart List: 30 Organizations Boosting College Access & Success
This fall you’ll see about 20 ‘Best of’ lists, not in order, not exhaustive, just people we appreciate doing innovative work. Today we’re recognizing 30 organizations building college awareness, preparation and completion.
Flipping the College Decision-Making Paradigm
By: Dr. Diane Hollems. Students at more than 100 schools throughout the nation are flipping the college decision-making paradigm through the Get Focused…Stay Focused! (GFSF) Initiative.
Designing Learning Environments that Ensure Success for English Language Learners
Amber Chandler sits down with Nicole Miller who is currently writing a curriculum to help define the classroom teacher’s role in an ENLs life and the significant impact our teaching and cultural responsiveness can have.
Smart Cities: What is the Secret to Pittsburgh’s Innovative Mindset?
By: Justin Aglio. The City of Pittsburgh will proudly celebrate its 200th year anniversary on March 18, 2016. In the last 200 years, Pittsburgh has continuously reinvented itself by demonstrating an innovative mindset. What is the secret to Pittsburgh’s innovative mindset?