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Personalized Learning

Your Child, Your Choice: Finding the Right School for Your Child

Jun 28, 2015

By: Gary Gruber. A major challenge for parents is how to make an informed choice that includes the age and stage of your child and his or her specific needs and interests when it comes to school selection.

Leadership

Why Letting Youth “Run the Store” is Important for their Development & Life Success

Guest Author

Jun 27, 2015

By: John Weiss. Giving young people voice, choice and decision-making opportunities is critical to support their healthy development and life success. They need to make decisions, act on their intentions and work collaboratively in school, in after-school programs and in family structures.

EdTech

Smart Parent Tip: See Inside Out

Carri Schneider

Jun 26, 2015

Seeing Inside Out provides a big opportunity for Smart Parents to be intentional about creating and talking about learning. You won’t find a film that strikes the balance between education and entertainment as much as this does.

EdTech

EdTech 10: It’s all About Scale, Progress and Knowledge

Getting Smart Staff

Jun 25, 2015

Whether you're Philly-bound for ISTE 2015, or part of #NotAtISTE, be in the know with this week's top EdTech news that's all about all about scale, progress, and knowledge.

EdTech

Your Students can be “Makers”: 16 Projects Invented by Teachers

Lindsey Own

Jun 25, 2015

New York City, The Big Apple, a global hub for innovation and invention from the Otis elevator through the MakerBot 3D printer. The perfect location for teachers to flex their own innovation and invention muscles at Design, Do, Discover 2015.

Difference Making

Rethinking Assessment to Meet the Demands of the 21st Century Workforce

Guest Author

Jun 25, 2015

With innovative teaching models and new assessment capabilities brought about by technology, students and teachers will have greater access to information about levels of understanding, remediation can decrease, and personalized learning at scale will become reality.

Difference Making

Choosing to Leave Private School for a Self-Directed Journey

Guest Author

Jun 24, 2015

By: Colleen Broderick. Not many students consider leaving elite academies to pursue their own learning experience. Nick Bain, a high school junior at Colorado Academy, left school last semester to test the efficacy of agency of his own education.

Difference Making

How I Paved my Unique Path with Career Path High

Guest Author

Jun 23, 2015

By: Eleanore “Ellie” Northrop. How Ellie's decision to take control of her secondary journey led to a personalized high school experience, two job offers before graduation, and the beginning of her career.

Leadership

Design as Learning

Tom Vander Ark

Jun 21, 2015

After working with hundreds of impact organizations we've learned three important lessons: design as learning, process as advocacy, and innovation as value creation.

Personalized Learning

Advice for Analog Parents with Digital Kids

Carri Schneider

Jun 20, 2015

The difference the learning environments that most parents experienced versus the ones in which their children are learning in formed the basis of our Smart Parents series. Here's some advice for parents raising digital kids.

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From Fixed Standards to Competency-Based Mastery	BeginningFrom Fixed Standards to Competency-Based Mastery Beginning	PilotingFrom Fixed Standards to Competency-Based Mastery Piloting	ImplementingFrom Fixed Standards to Competency-Based Mastery Implementing
From One-Size-Fits-All to Adaptive Learning	BeginningFrom One-Size-Fits-All to Adaptive Learning Beginning	PilotingFrom One-Size-Fits-All to Adaptive Learning Piloting	ImplementingFrom One-Size-Fits-All to Adaptive Learning Implementing
From Prescribed Knowledge to Innovation & Inquiry	BeginningFrom Prescribed Knowledge to Innovation & Inquiry Beginning	PilotingFrom Prescribed Knowledge to Innovation & Inquiry Piloting	ImplementingFrom Prescribed Knowledge to Innovation & Inquiry Implementing
From Subjects as Silos to Transdisciplinary, Real-World Learning	BeginningFrom Subjects as Silos to Transdisciplinary, Real-World Learning Beginning	PilotingFrom Subjects as Silos to Transdisciplinary, Real-World Learning Piloting	ImplementingFrom Subjects as Silos to Transdisciplinary, Real-World Learning Implementing
From Schools as Self-Contained to Schools as Embedded in Communities	BeginningFrom Schools as Self-Contained to Schools as Embedded in Communities Beginning	PilotingFrom Schools as Self-Contained to Schools as Embedded in Communities Piloting	ImplementingFrom Schools as Self-Contained to Schools as Embedded in Communities Implementing
From Standardized Testing to Meaningful Assessment	BeginningFrom Standardized Testing to Meaningful Assessment Beginning	PilotingFrom Standardized Testing to Meaningful Assessment Piloting	ImplementingFrom Standardized Testing to Meaningful Assessment Implementing
From Institutional Ownership of Student Data to Student-Controlled Learning Wallets	BeginningFrom Institutional Ownership of Student Data to Student-Controlled Learning Wallets Beginning	PilotingFrom Institutional Ownership of Student Data to Student-Controlled Learning Wallets Piloting	ImplementingFrom Institutional Ownership of Student Data to Student-Controlled Learning Wallets Implementing

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