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Equity & Access
A Research-Based Reason to Hope
By: Kristin Cuilla. Over five years of research and a variety of data sources have culminated into a new research report that truly documents how the school model is making a difference in the lives of students from every type of background.
Leadership
Transforming High Schools: 8 Strategies for EdLeaders
Transforming urban high schools is enormously challenging. In this post, Tom shares 8 effective strategies he's observed through his work and visits to hundreds of schools around the country.
Personalized Learning
2U CEO Chip Paucek on Online Learning That Works
Tom recently had a chance to talk with 2U CEO and Co-Founder Chip Paucek to learn more about online learning that's engaging and meaningful and what Chip calls the "third wave of online learning."
Equity & Access
Chan Zuckerberg Backs Personalized Learning R&D Agenda
This month Tom traveled to the Fusion conference where he sat down with Bror Saxberg and Jim Shelton of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to hear more about their personalized learning and R&D agenda.
Project-Based Learning
How to Humanize Learning in the Classroom with 3 Global Issues
By: Cleary Vaughan-Lee. How integrating stories of migration, climate change and language loss, can create real context and global-to-local connections for students.
Project-Based Learning
Globally Connecting Learners through Project-Based Learning
Teacher blogger Rachelle Dene Poth shares how Project-Based Learning can help bring global connectivity to students and 5 steps to get started.
Project-Based Learning
The Power of Constraints
In our classrooms, we often think we need to remove restrictions so we don’t cramp our students’ creative style. Apparently, though, the opposite may be true.
Future of Learning
A Celebration of Cross-Curricular Creativity
By: Andy Plemmons. The interdisciplinary nature of the project means that students have multiple sources of support throughout the project, from the art teacher to intervention teachers to classroom teachers to the librarian.
Competency-Based Education
Competency-Based Micro-credentials are Transforming Professional Learning
It's time to make way for micro-credentials -- the future of professional learning. There is nothing micro about how competency-based credentials have the potential to change the professional learning game on a MACRO-level.
Future of Learning
Save The Planet–Starting Today
If we have a list of the issues that will shape the future--an earth owner’s manual--when and how should we introduce them to young people? What does it mean to be really ready and why should we be encouraging young people to engage with the world’s most important issue? Tom Vander Ark answers these questions and more.