Equity & Access

Pandemic Opportunity: Rethink Education Accountability

[…] Pandemic Edition  The Biggest Source of Inequity Might Be the Way We Fund Schools  To help inform and deliver new agreements, new practices, and new tools Getting Smart and eduInnovation are exploring the Invention Opportunity thanks to support from the Walton Family Foundation and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The findings and conclusions contained within are […]

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Topics

Hybrid Instruction Creates More Time for Formative Assessments

[…] For more, see: Focusing on Feedback: A Conversation with Amy Tepper and Patrick Flynn About Supporting Educators During Distance Learning  6 Questions to Ask for Protecting Student Data in Distance Learning  Jamie Meristotis on Human Wor in the Age of Smart Machines  Stay in-the-know with innovations in learning by signing up for the weekly Smart Update.

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Future of Learning

Teaching Through Change, Stories of Resilience: Austin ISD

[…] Feedback: A Conversation with Amy Tapper and Patrick Flynn About Supporting Educators During Distanced Teaching  Stay in-the-know with innovations in learning by signing up for the weekly  Smart Update. This post includes mentions of a Getting Smart partner. For a full list of partners, affiliate organizations, and all other disclosures, please see our Partner […]

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Future of Learning

How To Unblock Curiosity And Build Creativity

[…] Development: Pandemic Edition  The Biggest Source of Inequity Might be The Way We Fund Schools  Stay in-the-know with innovations in learning by signing up for the weekly Smart Update. This post includes mentions of a Getting Smart partner. For a full list of partners, affiliate organizations and all other disclosures, please see our Partner […]

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EdTech

Reimagining the Textbook with Virtual Reality

[…] country to pitch their innovative business ideas. This was our second year participating in the Challenge; last year, when we presented live in London, we used a SMART Board to survey the students in the audience in real-time about their learning styles, which helped make our case to the judges that Scintilla addresses a […]

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Future of Learning

We Built Boring Schools, Then We Put Them Online–Science Has the Fix

[…] complicated, it is–learning and development are highly individual. These 12 factors suggest supportive learning environments and sustained relationships. The opportunity is not about working harder, it’s creating smarter systems. The last three factors suggest that learners can and should take on an increasingly active role in co-constructing learning pathways themselves as well as providing […]

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Future of Learning

How to Take Responsibility for the Future of Education

[…] Norway” (to appear in Leading and Transforming Education Systems edited by Michelle Jones and Alma Harris). Stay in-the-know with innovations in learning by signing up for the weekly  Smart Update. To help inform and deliver new agreements, new practices, and new tools Getting Smart and eduInnovation are exploring the Invention Opportunity thanks to support from the Walton […]

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Future of Learning

Turning Dead Malls into Community Assets

[…] of America opened, Amazon was born and the Internet exploded– it was the beginning of the end of American malls. With the move to online retail and smart supply chain operations across the country, customers are now just a click away from their purchase. The last two recessions accelerated the decline of traditional retail […]

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Leadership

Time to Redesign is NOW

[…] a school in every community, we can (and must) do this. Let’s get to work! For more, see: Getting Started with High School Redesign Redesign Schools with Learner-Centered STEM Next Generation School Design Kelly Young is the President of Education Reimagined. Stay in-the-know with innovations in learning by signing up for the weekly  Smart Update.

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Equity & Access

4 Ways to Develop Anti-Racism

[…] more, see: Karen Cator and Vic Vuchic on Whole Child Focused EdTech and Inclusive Education ‘Imagine Project’ Turns Trauma into Strength, Empathy, and Sense of Community  Getting Smart on Competency-Based Career Advancement at Harmony Public Schools  Christine M. T. Pitts, Ph.D., is a Research and Evaluation Manager at Portland Public Schools and former Policy […]

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