Place Based Education
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EdTech
Stop Playing: Your Campus Needs an Esports Program
[…] Seals Level Up – Pathways in Schools One size has never fit all; not in the free shirt you receive at a conference or in options for learning. Similarly, young people vary widely in interest and passion, and campuses often have to facilitate opportunities for students to connect and find their people. One option […]
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Learner-Centered
Building An Authentic Learning Culture Starts With Imperfection and Vulnerability
[…] them. In this blog, we’ll highlight pedagogy that allows for imperfect work to be shared and we’ll share how you can create a culture of sharing invisible learning so that there isn’t just one teacher in your classroom but a room full of teachers. How to Ditch a Culture of Perfectionism It’s hard to […]
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Learner-Centered
Where Does Work to Imagine a Learner-Centered Ecosystem Begin?
[…] schools and concern over the shrinking of “Main Street” in towns across the country, community-based, learner-centered ecosystems offer a path forward. In this design for public education, learning leverages the assets, insights and expertise of a wide variety of organizations and people in a community, prioritizing learning that is tangible and relevant to each […]
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Future of Learning
How New Tech Schools Jumpstarted El Paso’s Education Transformation
[…] socially and emotionally intelligent individuals. In a district that had been focused on test preparation, the new El Paso leadership team needed a way to jumpstart new learning experiences and illustrate the path forward for both teachers and students. “I wanted what all parents want for their children: school to support them academically, emotionally, […]
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Difference Making
The Decomposition of School and Regeneration of Learning
[…] that smells funky or bread that’s gone green), and in our systems. Industrial schooling has been smelling funky for a while. The fragmentation of time prevents deep learning. Splitting school off from ‘real life’ undermines meaning and purpose. Fragmentation into disciplines separates thinking into hierarchically arranged categories that can’t easily be put back together […]
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New Pathways
School Districts and Charter Authorizers Need Innovation Pathways
[…] architecture. Even after flipping to online pandemic teaching, most systems have snapped back to traditional delivery. Only now, many students are less engaged, more traumatized, have big learning gaps, or aren’t showing up at all. As we enter the fifth industrial revolution (right, we were just getting used that confusing 4IR), a hypperconnected complex […]
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Equity & Access
The Power of Process In Deeper Learning: A Case Study in Scaffolding
[…] done the week before on a community farm. They were pouring through multimedia evidence of the experience, tagging their competencies, and sharing with their peers using the learning tool Unrulr. Teachers were actually giving students time and space to think about their experiences, growth in skills, and how they formed new understandings of the […]
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New Pathways
Innovative High School Schedules
[…] agency, collaboration, and oral and written communication with each project. Double blocks increase team planning time and provide rich cross-curricular projects for students. 2. Varied blocks. Summit Learning campuses use three big project blocks with two smaller blocks for advisory and support (see Summit Atlas for example). The Summit Learning platform allows for a […]
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Leadership
A Question of Trust: The Arcadia Unified Better Together Project
By: Arcadia Unified School District. AUSD shares how a partnership with Altitude Learning and the University of California San Diego began to rigorously examine key levers for transformational change.
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Leadership
Meet the Culture Hackers: Microcredentials Aren’t Just for Students
By: Robert Thornton. Harmony Public Schools takes a competency-based approach to professional learning by awarding microcredentials to reinforce the skill-sets they believe are critical to success across a variety of roles within their system.
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