Series
EdTech
Vanessa’s Journey: Empowering Special Education Through Technology
By: Karla Phillips. Karla provides context around how technology aids learning especially for students in special education. She advocates for greater use of technology based on personal experiences with her own daughter.
Leadership
One Student, Five Lessons on Leadership
By: Javier Guzman. Javier, a former principal and regional director at Big Picture Learning, takes a student-centered approach to leadership and writes about the lessons learned for leading in Deeper Learning environments.
EdTech
EdTech 10: Students At The Center
This is one of those weeks in EdTech news that we wish would be every week, because this week the top stories that emerged focused on putting students at the center. When it came to assessments, rights, parents, new videos, reports, and platforms, student learning was paramount.
Personalized Learning
Students Ask Big Questions At Science Leadership Academy
Science Leadership Academy (SLA) in Philadelphia is transforming the opportunity set for 500 urban students with an inquiry-based approach. SLA students are asked to consider, "How do we learn?" "What can we create?" "What does it mean to lead?"
Personalized Learning
In Defense of Liberal Arts AND Employability
A liberal arts degree can be a great foundation for work and life. Students pursuing a liberal arts degree should build a portfolio of work based learning evidence and have a first job in mind approach graduation. Likewise, students aiming for technical employment shouldn’t be shortchanged when it comes to skills that will power lifelong learning and opportunity.
Personalized Learning
Six Personalized Learning MVP Moments From Fulton County Schools
By: Stephanee Stephens. Fulton County Schools is leading the shift to personalized learning. Six best practices that's working for large Georgia district: Summer PD, implementation of the right tools, innovative learning environments, recruiting, reflection and analysis, and strategic planning.
EdTech
Third Metric Living: Well-being, Wonder, Wisdom and Giving
In Arianna Huffington's new book she explains that right now too many of us define success by two measures: money and power. Redefining success beyond money and power is possible through practices that align with what she describes as third metric living.
Personalized Learning
What Relationships Drive Learning? Try Fathers
By: Patrick Riccards. As part of our Smart Parents series, Patrick Riccards, author of the memoir Dadprovement, writes about the roles that fathers can play in learning and parental engagement more generally. He makes a strong case for active parenting, and writes that seeing fathers in the classroom (and learning alongside their kids) should be the norm, not the exception.
EdTech
Slow Jam The Poem: A Jimmy Fallon Inspired Lesson Plan
What do you get when you cross Jimmy Fallon with a creative Language Arts class? An awesome "Slow Jam The Poem" lesson plan. Fallon is just too talented. In fact, I believe he could do just about anything sometimes like be a high school educator. If that was the case, his lesson plan would look like this.
Personalized Learning
Parenting for Powerful Learning: 35 Tips
We can turn our parenting interactions into learning opportunities at home, on field trips, and during weekends to help our kids learn while with us. From making dinner together to turning old cardboard boxes into whatever the kids' imagine, here are 35 tips for creating powerful learning experiences for all ages.