Context Matters: The Why and How of Building Context into School-Based Research
[…] thinking about adopting. Context Matters! The EdTech Evidence Exchange (the Exchange) helps district and state leaders gather evidence about their edtech implementation contexts. By understanding context strengths and weaknesses, education decision-makers can focus on making edtech decisions that are best for their unique circumstances. Through the Exchange’s EdTech Genome Project, we identified 10 context factors, shown below, as […]
Tacoma Adding More Personalized Learning Opportunities
[…] math, and technology. The school is designed to be project-based, allowing students to take on real-world problems and apply their learning to hands-on projects that often involve place-based approaches that include the zoo and surrounding parks and beaches. High school students at SOTA Another choice school in Tacoma is the Tacoma School of the […]
The Future-Ready School: Harnessing the Power of Learning Communities in Education
By: Mike Posthumus The post-COVID world presents unique challenges for education globally. With declining engagement rates, rising social-emotional learning needs, and the daunting reality of staff shortages, schools and districts worldwide are at a crossroads. However, as Eden Park Elementary School demonstrates, there may be a potent solution to these challenges – the transformative […]
Using Schoolwide Design Sprints to Seed Student-Centered Culture
[…] positive school culture doesn’t just happen in a vacuum. It is designed, built, and maintained by students, faculty, and the community. It is a part of the educational experience that breathes and lives within and outside the school building. MEC’s initial approach with the Cherokee project involved radical student leadership – essentially asking them […]
What Bloom’s Taxonomy Can Teach Us About AI
[…] a superintendent is lonely.” No matter how big your team is, the high-pressure, highly-public, and highly responsible role of superintendent has little room for mistakes. In the education world, we’ve seen the ways educators can use AI to produce lesson plans, quizzes, and report cards. But I would argue the most important potential of […]
‘Anxious’ Generation? More Like ‘Action’ Generation: America’s Students Are Building a Better World
This year more than 130 schools will be participating in Better World Day, an event created by the nonprofit organization EL Education.
Summer Learning: 10 Professional Learning Experiences for Educators
[…] thirty speakers are providing content on many topics including assessment, digital equity, social emotional learning, Google and Microsoft tools, Minecraft, SEL, and STEM/STEAM. Learning Revolution. A daily online education conference that was started earlier this year and is led by Steve Hargadon. There are sessions held daily and all learning events are free for educators […]
Why After School Matters More than Ever
[…] connect that they often don’t have access to during their regular school day. In the era of COVID-19, when many schools removed recess, lunch, arts, and physical education from their schedules, going to an after-school program can be life-saving for students. It offers more than just a resting place for a few hours each […]
When Humans, Not Systems, Run Schools
[…] clearly true for healthcare response, but it’s also true for, say, state unemployment systems. We’ll learn this fall whether it’s true for elections and voting. In public education, where systems have generally ruled the roost for decades (think: accountability, testing, sprawling federal and state regulatory requirements, restrictive bargaining agreements, immoveable governance models), the big […]
PBL-Lite for the Fall
[…] lay a foundation of PBL that can be built upon in the years to come. For more, see: Artificial Intelligence is Solving Cybersecurity Staffing Shortages in Higher Education South Fayette School District: Leading Educators in Computational Thinking A Blueprint for Change Amidst Pandemic Jenny Pieratt, Ph.D. is a Progressive Educator, Author, and Speaker. She is […]
