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Personalized Learning

Tomorrow Isn’t Tomorrow, It’s Today

Susan Davis

Feb 4, 2015

As educators, we see ourselves as preparing children of today for their own tomorrows. Thus, we must face an urgent obligation to stare down that future and figure out what it means for our current practice.

Leadership

What If We Replaced Family (and Classroom) Rules with Core Beliefs?

Carri Schneider

Feb 2, 2015

Once a lesson in my 2nd grade classroom, now an exercise I use as a parent. How to reinforce the right things and getting kids involved in determining what those “right things” are.

Personalized Learning

Hut 1, Hut 2: Literature Class on a Football Field

John Hardison

Feb 1, 2015

Have you discovered your classroom to be a bit too confined for creativity? Just head to the football field. Go long!

Leadership

7 Things EdLeaders Should Do

Tom Vander Ark

Jan 31, 2015

Opportunities in school leadership are great but so are the challenges. There are seven steps to transform a school or district.

Personalized Learning

Never The First to Finish: Why Pace Matters

Guest Author

Jan 30, 2015

By: Sarah M. Vander Schaaff. The strategies and decisions that worked to teach my daughter that pace matters and that finishing first is not what's most important.

EdTech

EdTech 10: Super Bowl XLIX Edition

Getting Smart Staff

Jan 29, 2015

The NFL, Super Bowl and football in general might seem completely unrelated to the world of ed and EdTech. However, after this week’s top stories you’d be surprised how similar they really are.

EdTech

Bridging the Gap from Living Room to Classroom: FreshGrade

Greg Garner

Jan 28, 2015

What if the communication line between parent and educator was truly open? Enter FreshGrade, a Learning Collaboration System that helps educators document student learning and progress through photo, video, work samples, and more.

Difference Making

How I Worked to Discover My Passion and Start My Business

Guest Author

Jan 26, 2015

By: Daniel Kao. If you look for passion as if it were some external entity, you’ll never find it. Passion isn’t found and followed, it’s created, nurtured, and grown.

Leadership

Embracing Paradox Leads to Breakthroughs

Tom Vander Ark

Jan 25, 2015

The "Eduparadox." How sources of tension can lead to breakthroughs in education.

Personalized Learning

I Received This Email from My Son’s Principal

Guest Author

Jan 24, 2015

By: Jason Stirman. How an email from my son's principal sparked thinking, a response, and confirmed my belief that "letting my kids stay young as long as they can" is not a parenting goal of mine.

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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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