The Ready Player One Test: Systems for Personalized Learning
We can examine how regeneration can support innovative pedagogy in immersive learning environments by digging a little deeper. Dagan Bernstein shares more in their latest post.
Preparing to Reopen: Six Principles That Put Equity at the Core
[…] control, and then assessing the field to determine the best play. The analogy hits home for educators in the COVID-19 world. School communities quickly shifted to remote learning, ensuring basic needs of safety and security in an uncertain time. Now educators face another challenge: getting ready to open schools with looming public health risks, […]
Building the Car While We’re Driving It: Lessons Learned and Back-to-School Priorities in Four Districts
By: Nate Kellogg and Lauren Schwartze. The Strategy Lab, The Learning Accelerator (TLA), and Bellwether Education Partners are working in partnership to support and learn from districts amid this uniquely difficult back-to-school season.
Getting Clearer: Schooling Loss, Not Learning Loss
By: Kelly Niccolls & Rebecca Midles. Students have experienced school loss and peer interaction loss, not learning loss. Kelly and Rebecca outline how educators can help students continue forward in their learning journey.
Three Keys to Making Game-Based Learning Student-Centered
There is a wide array of resources available that support learning through digital games and established approaches for integrating games into the school curriculum. Some fit easily into existing teaching practices and have seen widespread adoption, including platforms like Kahoot!
Distance Learning: Boosting College-, Career-, and Life- Readiness
With the shift to remote learning, students are developing college-, career-, and life-readiness skills and lessons and adapting to this unique mode of learning.
Community Partnerships and School-Adjacent Experiences Are Powerful Ways to Rebundle Learning
In communities nationwide, a growing range of free and low-cost learning opportunities outside of school are enriching children’s lives beyond their traditional curriculum, but parents need to be able to access them and to feel comfortable operating in the spaces where this learning happens.
Building an Education Innovation Index
[…] teams (ex. Boston Public School Innovation Department), hire Chief Innovation Officers to promote and support prototyping around best-practices within the classroom and/or new school models (Dallas ISD Personalized Learning). Regional networks supported by common agreements such as the Real-world Learning Initiative in Kansas City create scaled and common innovation initiatives. Innovative solutions sit at the intersection […]
Five Mega Trends Reshaping Global Learning
[…] summary, we identify priority skills in our new book, Difference Making at the Heart of Learning. 2. Active Learning: There is a global trend toward combinations of personalized and project-based learning. Individualized skill building has been bolstered by adaptive and small group instruction. Extended challenges are more frequently being used to develop the personal leadership […]
Framing and Designing the HOW
Rebecca Midles carves the designing path to change for a learning organization.