Place Based Education
205 Results
New Pathways
Building an Education Innovation Index
[…] create scaled and common innovation initiatives. Innovative solutions sit at the intersection of feasibility, desirability, benefit, and viability. Nate McClennen Fundamentally, successful innovation will be supported by leadership but implemented and developed from the ground up. Community ownership, clear project plan(s), leadership, impact evaluation, and resource allocation all play a role in a successful […]
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Equity & Access
Economic Mobility High: The New End Game for America’s High Schools
Tom and Eric share why high schools can and should be economic development engines of our communities.
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Future of Learning
COVID Forced Schools to Innovate: Let’s Build on What They Learned
[…] their Profile of Success to name, teach, and grow skills beyond traditionally tested outcomes. Throughout the past year educators have come up with mentoring programs, varied schedules, leadership opportunities, personal schedules, and redesigned their class schedules to address the needs of the whole child. Many schools and systems have recognized the value of social-emotional […]
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Getting Through
Processes and Principles for Public Schools Navigating Uncertainty and Adapting to Change
[…] and come together to adapt and respond to the dark winter that has fallen? It was May, a few months into the pandemic, when the Brooklyn LAB leadership team realized it was time to rethink school in order to adapt to the seeming realities of re-entry and resurgence. With cases rising and no hope […]
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Future of Learning
The Key to Addressing Covid-19 Vaccine Hesitancy: Public Schools
[…] the vaccine is an understandable response to the lived experience of systemic racism. Schools can, and must, step in to move the conversation around vaccine hesitancy forward. Public schools are uniquely positioned to help ensure that local communities have the information and confidence that they need to get vaccinated. We can work to address […]
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Getting Through
When Humans, Not Systems, Run Schools
[…] the challenge of transitioning to home-based learning with rapid design of new systems and communication, fired up and propelled by their professional cultures of distributed decision-making and leadership. The stories we’re hearing from them fall neatly into the emerging framework for transformational change that is emerging from this project, and from a partner initiative […]
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New Pathways
Building Rural Learning Pathways to Strengthen the Future of Community
[…] Connected App developers to provide opportunities for web-development certifications. While technology (if broadband is available) is a strong contender to reboot rural economies that struggle, entrepreneurship and leadership to support new ideas, businesses and solutions (as well as existing local businesses) build opportunities for future economic development. The North Carolina-based REAL (Rural Entrepreneurship through Action […]
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New Pathways
Students Co-authoring Their Own Learning
[…] organization and access startup capital, which is more widely available than ever. Marketing guru Seth Godin has wisely said that young people need to learn two things: leadership and how to solve interesting problems. An employer survey by the National Association of Colleges and Employers showed demand for leadership, problem-solving, communication and a big […]
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Competency-Based Education
Change Management at Harmony Public Schools: When Prior Innovations Become Status Quo
By: Burak Yilmaz. Through the development of a competency-based microcredential system, Harmony Public Schools has become a place where all educators with a growth mindset can thrive.
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Getting Through
School Vaccine Hub Publishes Curricular Resources for Teachers to Help Students Learn About COVID-19 Vaccine Efficacy
[…] the Director of Brooklyn Elementary Instruction for the Prep and Excellence networks of Uncommon Schools. Max originally joined Uncommon Schools as the Founding Head of School at Leadership Prep Bedford Stuyvesant. Les Lynn is the founder and director of Argument-Centered Education. Since 2013, Argument-Centered Education has been helping districts, networks, administrators, and teachers become […]
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