Smart Lists
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Connectivity is Critical: 33 Ways Broadband Boosts Learning
Connectivity powers personalized learning, makes connections with the world, helps meet special needs, powers professional work products, supports professional learning, boosts productivity, supports community and collaboration, and saves money.
Top 10 Class Management Tools for Educators
It's safe to say that administrative duties play a big role in a teacher's job. Teaching is not just about sharing knowledge with pupils – it also involves activities like attendance taking, grading, lesson planning and parental communication, most of which can be quite tedious and boring.
10 Entry Points For Next-Gen Learning
The Broad Residency prepares talented professionals for important leadership roles in urban districts. One of them asked me to outline entry points for next-gen learning.
A GPS for Every Secondary Student: 10 Key Features
There are 10 benefits that secondary students should expect from school advisory, counseling and guidance systems. These services are gaining importance as digital learning options expand.
10 Resources to Promote Personalized Learning
A couple people called last week looking for advice for state and district leaders on personalized learning. Here's a recap of our conversations.
10 Elements of Next-Gen Learner Experience (LX)
User experience (UX) involves a person's behaviors, attitudes, and emotions about using a particular product, system or service. With improving potential to blend and personalize learning, we should be reconsidering the Learner Experience (LX). Here's 10 suggested elements. What would you add?
Next-Gen Advisory: 10 Keys to College & Career Readiness
All of the great high schools that I visit have a strong distributed counseling system and advisory structure--a souped up homeroom that promotes a sustained relationship with an advisor, academic monitoring and management, and links to services.
10 Elements of Next-Generation Higher Education
Next-gen higher education systems will share 10 elements resulting in broader access, stackable credits/credentials, and higher completion rates.
10 Elements of Next-Generation K-12 Systems
Next generation systems--across a state or region--will share ten elements: goals, standards, a focus on personalized learning, assessments, talent development, authorizing, data systems, accountability, funding, connections, and supports.
35 High Schools Worth Visiting
Following are 35 schools that personalize and blend learning; they challenge students with real work and ask them to show what they know. Time to hit the road!