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Using Mastery Data to Measure Growth in Student Learning
By: Scott Ellis. Mastery learning offers the potential to provide this incredibly valuable data at scale and in real-time so it can be used by educators in their efforts to continuously improve their ability to support students.
8 Organizations Powering Positive Change in New Orleans
The transformation of New Orleans to a system of charter schools has been a city- and community-supported effort designed around three principles: educator run schools, parent choice, and public oversight.
3 School Innovation Insights that Challenge Common Assumptions
By: Chelsea Waite. Chelsea discusses the launch of the Christensen Institute's new Canopy project and three innovation takeaways that may challenge your assumptions.
How SNHU Succeeded by Understanding What Students Really Want—and Changing Everything
By: Michael B. Horn and Paul LeBlanc. Horn and LeBlanc discuss how SNHU made internal changes and succeeded in designing better sets of experiences to help students make progress and be successful in their lives.
5 Ideas for Learning About Digital Citizenship
With the start of a new school year and Digital Citizenship Week coming up in mid-October, it's a great time to explore resources for teaching about digital citizenship. Read about five different resources for exploring the topic and creating learning activities for students.
Playing With Purpose: Using Games to Enrich Learning & Engage Students
The Getting Smart staff explores how Curriculum Associates recently announced new Learning Games focused on creating a more engaging, accessible and motivating experience for students.
Metacognition and Why it Matters in Education
What is metacognition and why does it matter in education? Discover ways to promote metacognition in learning.
10 Strategies for Schools to Improve Parent Engagement
By: Jennifer Larson. The key to productive and positive parent engagement is a consistent and simplified flow of communication between school, home and all other stakeholders. Schools can take advantage of best practices to give parents more visibility into their child’s day-to-day.
5 Ways to Build Collaborative Learning Skills In and Out of the Classroom
Finding ways to help students build collaboration skills in the classroom is important for preparing them for the future of work and learning. Here are five ways to open up more opportunities for students to collaborate in and out of the classroom.
The Key to Enabling Data Driven Instruction in the Classroom: Getting Teachers the Right Data
By Scott Ellis. Enabling teachers to analyze data to improve student learning is a priority in competency-based learning. Instead of spending the majority of their time gathering, editing, and re-formatting data, teachers have much more time to analyze the data and use their skills to create better forecasts.