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Future of Learning
Returning Joy to Teaching & Learning
Too many school-based reform efforts continue to have educators implicitly standing with the standards against the students. What does a school where its educators stand with the students against the standards look like?
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Ed Policy
Beyond Bans: Schools’ Role in a Hard Reset on the ‘Phone-Based Childhood’
Last month, a story by Jonathan Haidt in The Atlantic broke through the firewall that often separates education reform and parenting conversations: people from both my personal and professional network circulated Haidt’s scathing take on the immense costs that smartphones and social media have exacted on children and adolescents. In “End the phone-based childhood […]
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Green Schools
An Emphasis on Place: The International School Grounds Alliance
We continue to observe that the challenges of the present will take all of us to confront. In education, this looks like instilling purpose, encouraging play, measuring what matters or ensuring true equity. To others this can look like combating global issues, like those identified by the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. We’ve seen […]
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Getting Through
How We Can Support Educators and Parents in the Midst of ‘Crisis Schooling’
[…] This is something I know intimately well: I’m a former online teacher and school leader from the ‘early days’ of what was an emerging approach in K-12 education. Back in 2005, I taught high school students remotely. For the past four years, I’ve led Future of School, a national nonprofit that supports educators, students, […]
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Project-Based Learning
Developmental Reflective Practices Lead to Learner Ownership, Critical Thinking, and Self-Actualization
[…] intelligence—many educators are recognizing the power of reflective thinking and practices. As with many practices, the social science here is not new. Indeed, the father of modern educational reform John Dewey is famously known for emphasizing that “we do not learn from experience, but rather we learn from reflecting on experience.” If we want […]
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Personalized Learning
Future Ready: The New Version of School
[…] print-based curriculum and updating their instructional strategies. Some spent the last two months catching up. Five years ago, our Implementation Guide 3.0 described blended learning as “a formal education program in which a student learns at least in part through online delivery of content and instruction with some element of student control over time, place, […]
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Getting Through
Safeguarding Back to School: Preparation for a Healthy Return to School in Downtown Brooklyn
[…] be used by other schools. To that end, we are sharing our reopening plan with organizations including the Educating All Learners Alliance in the hopes of reaching special education, technology, and educational organizations that can tailor these resources for their own use. We are creating this tool kit to support planning for the Brooklyn LAB […]
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Equity & Access
Reopening Schools: A Scheduling Map for Educators to Plan the Who, What, When, Where, and How of Learning this Fall
[…] distancing and health requirements. To create the map, Brooklyn Lab and InnovateEDU led a two-week design “charrette” with several partners: Dezudio, PBDW Architects, EdTogether, the National Center for Special Education in Charter Schools (NCSECS), Public Impact, TNTP, and the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College at Arizona State University. In this article, we are sharing the three […]
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Equity & Access
iLEAD’s Equity Task Force Takes A Stand Against Racial Injustice, Inequality
[…] will work to feel secure enough to facilitate these conversations with their staff, parents, learners, and communities.” This initial work will be facilitated by Micki Singer, Senior Educational Consultant with Collaborative Learning Solutions, an organization committed to challenging the status quo in education. With over 30 years of broad-based experience addressing educational equity, adaptive […]
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Personalized Learning
3 Ways Leaders Can Create The Conditions for Deeper Learning
Leaders are charged with creating the learning culture and environment that is conducive to deeper learning. Three areas to begin with are how we start school, how we share student work and how we culminate the year.
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