Series
Personalized Learning
What Personalized Learning Means in My Family
What a school looks like that prepares students for meaningful, authentic work and meaningful relationships, what we still need to provide our kids for real personalized learning, and how our family promotes this kind of education at home.
EdTech
EdTech 10: Teamwork Makes The Dream Work
News stories of companies teaming up, reports on opportunities for potential collaboration and overall happenings of people coming together, be it through sharing resources or opinions, towards the common goal of enriching learning and teaching experiences.
EdTech
MoveNote: A Very Noteworthy #EdTech App
Introducing, MoveNote. A noteworthy tool that can be used flip the classroom, practice presenting, share best practices and teach from a distance.
Difference Making
Living Your Future Is An Authentic Process
By: Elliot Washor. How a trip to Nashville Big Picture reinforced how powerful GenDIY can be if they have schools that entwine community and family around the student learning experience.
Personalized Learning
Unlimited Potential For A Small Middle Grade Flex Program
Cicely Benoit and Aditi Rao are educators at Houston's most innovative school, A+ Unlimited Potential (A+UP), a small tuition free middle school launched last year in the Museum District.
EdTech
No More Cookie-Cutter Schools
In Teaching the Digital Generation, Frank Kelly, joins authors Ted McCain and Ian Jukes to provide a resource that enables leaders to combine facilities and curriculum planning to create next-generation schools.
Difference Making
Imagine Running a Phone Store While You’re Still in High School
By: Nancy Hoffman. Every young person should have the opportunity to gain the knowledge, skills, and competence needed to search for and obtain work that is meaningful. Why learning to work, learning about work, and experiencing a productive workplace should be integral to secondary-level education.
EdTech
The Power of Parents, Teachers, and Technology in Character Education
How character is acquired, how parents and other adults shape the character of their children, and how school-based, digital learning could advance intentional character growth.
Difference Making
Making The Most of Millennial Teacher Mindsets
By: Nick Friedman. Millennial teachers are returning to classrooms with the realities common to their generation, such as flexible learner-centered models.
Leadership
Innovation & Improvement Takes a Sustained Push
We have a great chance to boost achievement and completion rates but it takes sustained leadership. There has been uptick in talented and committed state and district leaders being fired or leaving under duress.