A District’s Grappling With Anti-Racism: The Kearney School District Story
[…] education consultant for Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation Real World Learning Initiative and the Education Governance & Leadership Association. Stay in-the-know with innovations in learning by signing up for the weekly Smart Update. This post includes mentions of a Getting Smart partner. For a full list of partners, affiliate organizations and all other disclosures, please see our Partner […]
Schools Need a Success Coach for Every Learner
[…] organization and has worked as a high school teacher, 3-12 instructional coach, school leader and consultant. Stay in-the-know with innovations in learning by signing up for the weekly Smart Update. We know that educators and leaders have spent the last couple of months scrambling to meet the immediate needs of learners in their community. Thank […]
Human Work: Learn Stuff Computers Can’t Do
[…] –and inequality has never spread so quickly. To add value, people should learn stuff computers can’t do. That’s the conclusion of Human Work in the Age of Smart Machines, a new book by Jamie Merisotis. As CEO of the Lumina Foundation, Merisotis has a good view of the work of the future. He sees […]
5 Recommendations to Improve Remote Learning for Families
[…] distribution. LEANLAB Education is a Kansas City-based nonprofit whose mission is to launch transformational education innovations that have a national impact. Their method is pairing under-resourced school communities with high potential education technologies to measure their impact in authentic classroom environments. Stay in-the-know with innovations in learning by signing up for the weekly Smart Update.
The Opportunity for Personalized and Local Guidance
[…] personalized pathways and transition to a wider range of valuable postsecondary experiences. Sustained relationships are the most important aspect of advisory systems. They can be informed by smart systems in five categories–starting early, personalized and localized pathways, adding entrepreneurship, and promoting progress–and each represents an invention opportunity for new tools and strategies. 1. Start […]
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Delivering Essential Skills for Students by Students
[…] it very useful and no one really teaches us these types of things.” For more, see: The Power of Engaging Families A New School That Thinks Like a Kid Crystal Everett is a Real World Learning Coordinator with the Kansas City Public Schools. Stay in-the-know with innovations in learning by signing up for the weekly Smart Update.
Thinking Inside the Box: Turning Vacant Box Stores Into Early Learning Facilities
[…] Malls into Community Assets Podcast: Rebecca Parks on Learning and Exploring through Nature and Science Stay in-the-know with innovations in learning by signing up for the weekly Smart Update. This post includes mentions of a Getting Smart partner. For a full list of partners, affiliate organizations and all other disclosures, please see our Partner […]
Out with the Test, in With PBL: How Project- Based Learning is Transforming Remote Learning
[…] see: Getting Through: Disruptive Leadership Podcast: Dan Gohl on Leading in Crisis Living on Curves Stay in-the-know with innovations in learning by signing up for the weekly Smart Update. Kyle Wagner is a ‘Getting Smart’ Staff Writer, author, and founder/ lead trainer of Transform Educational Consulting; helping forward-thinking schools create more socially, emotionally and […]
Turning Dead Malls into Community Assets
[…] of America opened, Amazon was born and the Internet exploded– it was the beginning of the end of American malls. With the move to online retail and smart supply chain operations across the country, customers are now just a click away from their purchase. The last two recessions accelerated the decline of traditional retail […]
