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3 Ways Leaders Can Create The Conditions for Deeper Learning
Project-based learning is becoming the way many educators and educational leaders are beginning to view the future of instructional pedagogy. When teachers, leaders, schools and districts become more project-based focused, they often tend to aim their attention at targets such as professional learning, scheduling, cohorts, collaborative teams, courses, technology and graduate profiles. These are […]
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Leadership
Active Learning: The Secret to El Paso’s Success
[…] shifting the district of 86 schools from a preoccupation with test prep toward a focus on the whole child, engaging project-based learning, and effective dual language literacy instruction. “The risk was TEKS alignment concerns, but we are doing fine with testing,” added Cabrera. “More kids have an engaging pedagogical environment without the drill and […]
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Getting Through
Schools Need a Success Coach for Every Learner
[…] that “None of us is free until we are all free.” Ali has worked as a middle school teacher, university instructor, DE&I consultant, director of curriculum and instruction across more than 30 schools, and director of learning transformation at an international education design lab. Bb Ntsaky serves as the Director of Academics at Brooklyn […]
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Getting Through
Always Ready For Learning: Meeting the Rapidly Evolving Needs of Educators Throughout COVID-19
[…] organizations in a large-scale, free coaching network to offer school districts rapid, customized, and sustained guidance on how to successfully shift to remote learning and prepare for instruction in the fall and beyond. This pro-bono, philanthropically-supported initiative works to ensure K-12 school district leaders get urgent and customized guidance to help wherever they are […]
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Getting Through
Introducing the Texas Learning Exchange School Operations Guide
[…] opportunities for students, the guide then turns attention to the academic shifts necessary to give students an optimal chance to learn no matter where or how this instructional exchange is occurring. The focus is the learner, not the school, not the teacher, not the curriculum. In the guide, we cover topics such as remote […]
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Leadership
A Question of Trust: The Arcadia Unified Better Together Project
By: Arcadia Unified School District. AUSD shares how a partnership with Altitude Learning and the University of California San Diego began to rigorously examine key levers for transformational change.
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Leadership
Meet the Culture Hackers: Microcredentials Aren’t Just for Students
[…] Pathways When Harmony Public Schools (Harmony) received a Race to the Top grant in 2012, a lot of expectations changed across the system. As student-centered models for instruction took hold, teachers demanded higher quality professional learning experiences and requested more academic leadership from their administration including more collaboration with their colleagues. The competency-based approach […]
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Career & Technical Ed
Lining Up Career Dreams with Reality
By: Dr. Suzette Lovely. Suzette discusses how to build exposure and aspirations around careers that may not currently exist.
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Future of Learning
Harmonizing with Microcredentials: 7 Steps to Reimagining Your School’s Professional Learning
[…] initiatives that will affect all in the extended Harmony network, leaders have worked hard to implement what they hear from the field. Burak Yilmaz, Harmony’s Director of Instruction said they prioritize, “…ongoing efforts to collect feedback and input, and when educators see that their input is making a difference, it impacts the consensus building […]
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Future of Learning
Your School Has Left the Building
By: Steven Hodas. Steven discusses why it’s time to move from institutional silos to community impact.
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