Growing Together Education Connects Learners and Communities to Green Food and Green Skills
Growing Together Education is working with numerous school communities to develop academically rigorous and interactive environmental education programs.
Design Integrated Learning Pathways to Realize Your Portrait of a Graduate
Shifting Education with Learning Pathways: Becoming Your Portrait of a Graduate shares a systematic approach to integration of a PoG.
Do You Know Who Your Students Know? Better Data on Students’ Networks Can Start the School Year off Right
Julia Freeland Fisher details how better data on students’ networks can start the school year off right.
Microschools Changing the Phoenix Education Landscape
[…] storefronts. Each serves a maximum of 24 learners with a day split between academics and screen-free enrichment and socialization. Most pods have a math and an English teacher, called learning coaches. Parents, with coaches’ advice, make curriculum choices. It’s often Zern in math and Lexia in reading. Parents and coaches communicate at least weekly. […]
Dream Jobs of the Innovation Age
[…] ask a kid today what job they would like to do when they grow up, the answers are still likely to be a police officer, doctor, or teacher. This hasn’t changed in the past twenty years. In the meantime, the way we work is being fundamentally transformed. Automation is replacing work previously undertaken by […]
How do we prepare students to flourish in a VUCA future?
[…] you can’t predict the future or what is needed in it for an individual or a society — and also because schools can’t actually do these instrumental goals. A teacher cannot go into school every day and make sure a student gets a good job or gets into the right college. What she can do is […]
How Teaching Entrepreneurship Helped One Teacher ‘Build a Bridge and Get Over It’
[…] and that’s OK. I can try again the next day, and the next, and the week after that — until the morning that I wasn’t the perfect teacher will be nothing more than a distant memory. Entrepreneurship was what was missing from my career as an educator. And I think it’s what was missing from […]
A Vision for Transformative Education
Read this excerpt from the upcoming book Worldwise Learning: A Teacher’s Guide to Shaping a Just, Sustainable Future.
Leaders Are Not the Chief Decider, They Are Decision Architects
Decision making now includes more complexity, more stakeholders, and more agreements needed to be reached. Leaders need better tools and templates to make better decisions yielding coherent and effective change.
Town Hall Recap: Microschools Can Lead To Macro Change
Last week, we hosted our April Getting Smart Town Hall, Microschools Can Lead to Macro Change. This event touched on the many ways in which microschools have come to the fore through the last year and how oftentimes they enable schools to be more agile, more personalized and more effective.
