Lining Up Career Dreams with Reality
[…] for educators is: How do we build exposure and aspirations around careers no one is able to imagine? Out of Sync The roots of Career and Technical Education (CTE) date back to 1917 when the federal government first began funding vocational education. At the time, skill development was centered on agriculture, homemaking, industrialization, and […]
Arguing for Agency: One Student-led Classroom Debate at a Time
[…] students: a chance to foster critical thinking skills and engage students in informed decision-making. Brooklyn Laboratory Charter Schools (LAB) has partnered with renowned Chicago-based firm Argument Centered Education (ACE) to develop a suite of free, publicly available resources to encourage teachers, students, and families to have discussions and debate about different aspects of the pandemic and appropriate […]
The Role of Student Roles
[…] often even personal, identity. It informs us and others how we function within a larger group, company, organization or project. The What Throughout the history of modern education, we have created and utilized students’ roles. Teachers would assign, often in the elementary levels, students to perform certain tasks – such as attendance, cafeteria support, […]
Myth of the Ideal Classroom
By: Sarah Pazur. Instead of idealizing the face-to-face classroom at the expense of education’s advancement into the 21st century, it’s time to confront our biases and maximize the opportunities that online learning can provide.
Human Work: Learn Stuff Computers Can’t Do
[…] including fostering critical thinking, communication, collaboration, creativity, and other 21st century skills young people need to thrive in this complex, rapidly changing world. Schools in the EL Education network share a character framework grounded in purpose, agency, and belonging. At the heart of developing effective learners and ethical people is learning to contribute to […]
“I Could Never Do This Alone” – Collaboration, Trust, and Human-Centered Design at Design39
[…] with an increased enthusiasm for designing new systems and experiences to meet the needs of today’s learners. With the pandemic revealing the stark inequities and inadequacies across education in preparing learners for their world, the story of Design39 Campus serves as an inspiring national exemplar. Design 39 Campus, a TK-8 public school in San […]
WorldOver International Handcrafts Uniques Experiences for Global Learners
[…] “Well, at WorldOver you can.” Now if that isn’t craft or artisanal, then what is? For more, see: Linking Global Knowledge, Project-Based Learning and the Pandemic: One School’s Journey Globally Connecting Learners through Project-Based Learning Diversifying Global Education to Diversify Global Leadership Stay in-the-know with innovations in learning by signing up for the weekly Smart Update.
Opportunities in Wellness: A Key to Learning
[…] academic success has long been both intuitively obvious and well documented in scientific research. The COVID-19 pandemic, however, has thrown this relationship into even starker relief, forcing education systems to confront the complicated interplay between the “wellness” of individuals and their communities with their ability to achieve their academic missions head-on. The challenge educators face […]
Redesigning School: Six Key Pillars From Six of the Most Innovative Schools and Programs
In the midst of an unprecedented pandemic, everyone is scrambling to ‘re-imagine education.’ Home learning pods have surfaced to create smaller, tight-knit communities of learners. Hybrid programs have emerged to blur the lines between home and school. And new remote programs with innovative tech tools are being introduced worldwide to enable learning to take […]
Pharrell Launches Whole Child Nonprofit to Even the Odds
Last month Pharrell Williams launched nonprofit YELLOW to “Even the odds through education.” Five whole child priorities focus the early work of the nonprofit: Abolish remedial: “Remedial” is an oppressive concept that penalizes individuality and difference, so we work to change the lens through which schools and systems look at children, and the way […]
