Place Based Education
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Equity & Access
Microschools Can Lead to Macro Change
[…] founders are 4.0 Schools encourage entrepreneurial problem-solving by offering an Essentials Fellowship to develop an idea that improves education and a Tiny Fellowship to test it out. Liberty Public Schools in Kansas City, Missouri has recently started a microschool in each of their high schools as a way to provide unique learning experiences that are aligned […]
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Getting Through
Nate Kellogg & Gwen Baker on Real-Time Redesign for Schools and Districts
[…] that were identified?” The work that followed featured the participation of 7 districts: Renton School District, Phoenix Charter Academy, Monterey Penninsula United School District, Mastery Charter, Indianapolis Public Schools, Cedar Rapids Public Schools and Austin ISD. The application process focused on districts who were ready to leapfrog — meaning they might not have been […]
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Difference Making
Insight from the Great Learning Conversations: 8 Ways Parents Want to Connect With Schools
[…] about why family-school engagement matters. It’s as if they’ve been waiting for someone to ask the questions these evenings were designed to explore: What would you want schools to know about your child and your family in order to help your young learner succeed? How can schools really engage with parents? And then the […]
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Leadership
What Educators Need: Building Cultures of Trust in an Era of Top-Down Educational Legislation
[…] on teachers’ perceptions of individual student knowledge and growth, as gathered from standardized exams and their lived experiences in the classroom. All information about school performance is public, and there are mechanisms for reporting specific concerns. All of this has built a culture of trust in educators and belief in their decision-making authority—and very […]
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EdTech
Let’s Use ChatGPT to ‘Think Different’ About K-12 Schools
By: Kara Stern, Ph.D. When Horace Mann dreamed up the idea that eventually became the US public school system, the world was a different place. Fast forward to 1940. By then, the one-room schoolhouse had morphed into something we’d recognize today. And then things got…a little stuck. For example, I went to the same […]
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Equity & Access
How We Move Forward: Practicing Three Inclusive, Anti-Racist Mindsets for Reopening Schools
[…] power in your institution. Who gets to define what is “best” for kids and which kids they consider to be the “best”? Acknowledge racial trauma: Recognize the impact that public displays of racial injustice have had within BIPOC communities. Think about trauma such as police killings, deportations, or the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on Black communities, […]
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Leadership
5 Recommendations to Improve Remote Learning for Families
By: The LEANLAB Editorial Team. After surveying more than 500 parents and caregivers, the LEANLAB team identified a few recommendations to improve remote learning for schools, teachers, and parents.
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New Pathways
Deeper Learning Requires Deeper Relationships?
Scott McLeod shares insights from visits at innovative elementary and middle schools across the country devoted to significant amounts of time for students and educators to simply be together in community.
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Career & Technical Ed
Owatonna’s New School Sets Eyes on Local Pathways
[…] can take years. Agreeing to can take decades. In Owatonna, Minnesota, there had been frustrated failed attempts and dreams of passing bond referenda for a new Owatonna Public Schools high school since the late ’80s. Fortunately, in late 2019, that changed. District Superintendent Jeff Elstad partnered with Wold Architects and Engineers (Wold) to lead […]
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Getting Through
ReThinkingEdu: Innovative Lessons Learned by Teachers During the COVID 19 Pandemic
[…] I serve to leave the world a better place.“ Julie Cook, Ed.D., Language Arts and Social Studies Teacher, Souderton Charter School Collaborative, Ambassador Teacher for the Powered Schools Network, said the following: “Teachers experienced a lot this past year. It just might take another year to unpack it all. Teachers reinvented school as we […]
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