Place Based Education
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EdTech
Let’s Use ChatGPT to ‘Think Different’ About K-12 Schools
The way to overcome the current challenges dominating K-12 is to think out of the box from the mindset of our ‘users' and embrace the new and unfamiliar with curiosity and confidence.
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Getting Through
The Front Porch: A New Approach to Support the Health, Safety, and Well-Being of Our School Communities
Like many school communities across New York, we are preparing to reopen the doors of Brooklyn Laboratory Charter Schools (LAB) in just a few weeks. Our primary concern is ensuring the health and safety of everyone in our school community. Many in our school community are understandably anxious about what the return to school will […]
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Future of Learning
Creativity Made Easy: How Your Students Can Practice the Skill for the 21st-Century
[…] bad about yourself and thinking you are behind compounds the problem. It cuts our self-confidence. With our new zealous attempt to cut the learning loss, are we preparing kids for a job world where employers value innovation and creativity as a number one job skill? Do kids really learn important skills when they memorize? Memorization […]
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Future of Learning
Learning Coach Academy: Supporting the Role of Parents or Guardians in Remote Learning
By: Heather Hiebsch and Cheryl Fenlason. Heather and Cheryl share hybrid, personalized, and blended learning tips to develop and support Learning Coaches to help students adapt - and even thrive - in this uncertain educational landscape.
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Future of Learning
How New Tech Schools Jumpstarted El Paso’s Education Transformation
[…] active learning district.” To move quickly, Cabrera knew he’d need to demonstrate to the community that his team could change how school functions with the same teachers, principals and buildings and achieve different and better results. Cabrera had visited several high schools in the New Tech Network (NTN), and knew the team-taught integrated project-based […]
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Getting Through
We Can’t Put the Genie Back in the Bottle: Designing Next-Generation Education in the Time of Crisis
[…] collaborate globally. The crisis we’re facing with all of its ramifications is, in essence, an object lesson for the kind of complexity for which we should be preparing students. Chances are that our world will be increasingly more complex, not less, and engaging students in problem-solving skills to address our real-world dilemmas contributes to […]
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Getting Through
When Humans, Not Systems, Run Schools
By: Andy Calkins. Andy discusses how the districts in NGLC's change management project have transitioned to home-based learning with rapid design of new systems and communication.
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Career & Technical Ed
As a City Transforms, Schools Open Career Pathways for Students
[…] The district hopes to return Newark to the place it once held among the highest-performing school districts in the nation, and contribute to the city’s revitalization by preparing the next generation of its workforce for the skilled jobs that await them. Our strategy is working. Enrollment increases, attendance rates, and graduation rates are all […]
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Competency-Based Education
Amplifying Student Voice to Design the Vision for Learning
[…] founded in my district and I happily jumped on board. What I found was a new approach to education that allowed me to expand my expertise while preparing me to face the world. Grades were replaced by competencies which aimed to develop my skills as a learner rather than suppress it and projects were […]
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Competency-Based Education
Are You Putting Learners First? Here are 8 Ways to Check Yourself
Shifting to a learner-centered design frame of mind is becoming more crucial in order to adapt to learners changing educational needs. Here are ways to ensure you are putting the learner first.
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