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3 Reasons to Refresh Your Vision of Powerful Learning
Tom outlines three things that may cause you to reconsider your personal picture of powerful learning experiences
Puget Sound Schools: Making Interest-Based Learning Meaningful and Intentional
By: Kelly Niccolls and Rebecca Midles. Kelly and Rebecca take us on a tour of select Puget Sound schools that adopt the Whole Child Initiative, focused on community partnership and rearing the next generation of local industry expertise.
Getting Smart on Mastery Learning
As a culmination of our mastery learning series, we have compiled a Smart Bundle that documents the necessary steps to making these mastery systems measurable, effective and scalable.
The Persistence of Misconceptions
David Ross, formerly the Senior Director for the Buck Institute for Education and CEO of the Partnership for 21st Century Learning, continues a monthly series chronicling his decision to go from classroom to boardroom and back again. Â In this edition, he focuses on the rugged persistence of misconceptions.
Incubate, Replicate and Scale: How Dallas is Creating Great High School Options
Rebecca explores how Dallas ISD is providing students with choice through P-techs - schools that are a partnership between high schools, colleges, and industry partners.
Approaching Career Readiness in Alternative Education
Emily Liebtag and Lauren Barry visit Boston Day and Evening Academy to learn how they are paving new roads to college & career readiness.
Teaching in the Time of Fire
David Ross examines how Northern California wildfires have impacted teaching and learning and shares strategies for how to lessen the trauma of power outages, evacuations, and pervasive fear.
Project-Based Learning Provides Path For Increased Awareness of Self, Others and the World
Project-based learning may be the ultimate instructional approach for many reasons, but none possibly more important than its ability to propel a learner’s journey toward self-actualization.
Shining a Light on the Future of Learning at Aurora Institute
The Getting Smart team reflects on the standout themes of the 2019 Aurora Institute (formerly iNACOL) Symposium, a conference aiming to move the needle forward for competency-based and personalized learning.
Exploring the World From Our Classroom
Promoting global collaboration is important to help our students develop skills for the future and to enhance their cultural awareness. There are a lot of digital tools are resources that facilitate these collaborations faster than ever before.