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Creating Tomorrow’s Career Center Today
By: Shane Haggerty. What started as an initiative to “rethink” our school, has become a movement of redesign, innovation, and risk-taking not seen in the district for years.
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9 Resolutions & 9 Resources for Your Project-Based Learning Classroom This Year
It's a new year. Here are 9 resolutions and 9 resources for your project-based learning classroom for 2016 and beyond. Resolve to involve adult mentors, activate student choice, teach project management and calendaring skills and more. This blog shows you how with resolutions and new resources to make it work.
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Top 15 CompetencyWorks Blogs of 2015
The new year means new reading lists. So as the year comes to a close, CompetencyWorks, leaders when it comes to competency-based learning, shares their top 15 blogs of 2015 that should be on your reading list before the new year.
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10 Tips for Developing Student Agency
Student agency may be as important an outcome of schooling as basic skills according to a new Harvard study. "The Influence of Teaching Beyond Standardized Test Scores: Engagement, Mindsets, and Agency" makes 10 suggestions for teaching.
Personalized Learning
Parent Power Fuels Rocketship
Rocketship's Spark Academy in San Jose supports students growth through an innovative rotational model, a learning lab and diverse technology programs in the classroom. The foundation of the school model includes community, parent and teacher involvement in the students individualized learning pathway on a daily basis.
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4 Ways Big Picture Learning Prepares Leaders for Deeper Learning
Big Picture Learning (BPL) hosts leaders from the around the network and beyond. Here's a look at 4 ways BPL prepares and cultivates leaders for deeper learning.
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School Hacks As Professional Learning: Transforming Schools, One Leader at a Time
School Retool is a new transformational professional development cohort that is making its way to regions around the country. School Retool is a partnership between the design firm IDEO, the Stanford d.School and the William & Flora Hewlett Foundation.
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10 Coding & Computer Science Blogs to Bookmark
In celebration of Hour of Code and Computer Science Education Week (December 7-11) we dug into the Getting Smart vault to share our top 10 favorite coding and computer science blogs. They are packed full of resources for educators, parents, students and thought leaders.
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KnowledgeWorks Forecast 4.0: Partners in Code
Exponential change is the theme of the fourth KnowledgeWorks forecast subtitled Education in the Era of Partners in Code. The report outlines five drivers of change: Optimized selves, labor relations 2.0, alternate economies, smart transactional models and shifting landscapes.
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Moving From ‘Gotcha’ to ‘Growth’: Using Video in the Classroom for Effective Teacher Feedback
By: Vanessa Belair. To keep up with the pace of change, professional learning and resources must evolve to address individual abilities and interests and help educators meet their goals. New video technology provides opportunities never before possible for teachers to receive the personalized, objective feedback they need to grow.