Series
Difference Making
Student-to-Student: Customize Your High School Experience and Make it Meaningful
By: Grant Ryerse. Seven ways students can pursue their interests and customize high school: Finding "the best" parts, service learning, career exploration, teamwork, hands-on learning, and online learning.
Series
Parenting with Social and Emotional Learning: Thinking Before and After Actions
By: Jennifer Miller. As part of our Smart Parents Series, Jennifer shares why stopping to think may not seem a priority in our fast-paced lives but it just may be one key to raising socially and emotionally intelligent children.
Personalized Learning
Drop Everything and Sail the World
Sailing the world may seems like an impossible dream for you and your family but with the connected, quantified, anytime anywhere world, it’s more possible to do what seemed impossible a few years ago.
EdTech
EdTech 10: Unabiding the Slide
This is the time of year when students are at the top of “Summer Slide.” Thankfully, for leaders in EdTech the end of the school year hasn’t slowed progress in developing new learning opportunities, platforms, and partnerships.
Personalized Learning
Five Trends Demand Smart States
Innovation is sustained by advocacy and policy, and that makes the role of state leadership and policy essential. Smart Cities focuses on urban areas, but these keys apply to states as well. State leaders should aspire to creating an environment that works for everyone.
Personalized Learning
It May Be the End of the School Year If…
Still can't believe another school year has passed? Check out these 25 questions to bridge the gap between disbelief and reality.
Leadership
Modeling Good Work
Howard Gardner suggests that children need to see their parents modeling good work; here are 7 tips.
EdTech
Smart Planet: 20 Inventions Boosting Global IQ
Technology and learning innovations are in the process of boosting global IQ. 20 categories where new tools are beginning to, or likely to, make a big difference in access to quality learning opportunities.
EdTech
EdTech 10: Recentering for Students
This week’s news is about stepping back, reassessing, and reorganizing with results from reports, re-upping funding for schools and libraries, and award recipients to boot.
EdTech
Thinking, Fast and Slow: How We Process and Respond to the World
Daniel Kahneman unpacks the research into human being’s processes and responses to the world by drawing a distinction between our automatic and involuntary response and controlled and reasoned decision making.