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Leadership

ISTE LIVE 21 Virtual Conference Recap

[…] off with an opening and inspiring keynote address from Dr. Miguel Cardona, the Secretary of Education followed by Cornelius Minor who spoke of the importance of building learning communities to celebrate student voice and student agency. On Sunday Dr. Priscilla Chan, the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Chan Zuckerberg Initiative spoke about equity and the […]

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ISTE Live 21
Project-Based Learning

Flipping the Script: A Case Study in Student Agency and Youth Entrepreneurship

[…] process really helped me to do and see that.” It was vital that Ese and other Capstone seniors were given time and space to work on their learning process. Ese was given time and a framework to engage in multiple cycles of ideation, research, project management, product development, and presentation. In a beautiful essay, […]

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Ese Painting
Personalized Learning

3 Strategies to Provide Mentorship and Support to Students During Challenging Times

[…] important to us and our students. At our school, we began the year with a renewed focus on fostering relationships and connections to support our students’ social-emotional learning needs. Our goal was to build a safe and trusting community where our students are known as individuals. Also, according to a recent national survey, students […]

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Students in Hallway
Place Based Education

School With a View: Vistas, Movement, and Learner Well-being

[…] visits around the world. I then asked the students how they felt about it. One young woman replied, “It’s suffocating.” For teachers that were trained to direct learning and maintain order, the need to control students’ attention is a natural one, but in a learner-centered world, it’s highly limiting and even unhealthy. As the […]

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place based education
Equity & Access

Human-Centered Learning May Be Missing the Point

[…] – Land, Home, Place or Mother In Western thought and most Western languages, we don’t have a word for this interconnectedness of all life. It shows. Regenerating Learning On an episode of the Getting Smart Podcast, Maggie Favretti (whose urgent book is available for pre-order) and Benjamin Freud, Ph.D went long on ‘regenerative learning’, a […]

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human centered
Equity & Access

Empowering Educators: The Equity for Wellness Summit

[…] creating spaces for students to feel the same by incorporating clips of students personally expressing what makes them feel free. She then shifted to talk about social-emotional learning and wellness and even provided a caution that “If we are not careful SEL, can be white supremacy with a hug.” She reiterated that the conference […]

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Equity Wellness Summit
Place Based Education

Welcoming Entry and Layered Access

[…] belonging and beauty at first sight. Even before entering a building, we can see the elements that foster community and connection–key ingredients in safe, healthy communities of learning. Jane Jacobs, in her seminal work “The Death and Life of Great American Cities,” identified a key element of safe, vital communities as “eyes on the […]

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Fielding International
Future of Learning

Getting Through: Leading with Optimism Hope and Love

By: Kristi Dominguez, Ellen Dorr & Kelly Niccolls. Post Covid-19, increased focus ​on courageous leadership is more important than ever to envision what learning could become.

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SEL & Mindset

Book Review: Otherful by Mike Kleba & Ryan O’Hara

Is our current collective situation a chance to leave behind any practice, style, or belief that doesn’t support teaching and learning — that doesn’t resonate with authenticity? It would seem so to Mike Kleba and Ryan O’Hara in Otherful: How to Change the World through Other People, their first book and offering to the education leadership […]

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