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Leadership
This School Year, It Will Take A Village
[…] students who returned this fall need a community of positive relationships. “Every student deserves a team of learning guardians,” said Phyllis Lockett, founder and CEO of Chicago-based education nonprofit LEAP Innovations. “Given the very broad spectrum of students’ learning and social-emotional needs, especially this year, we need to mobilize a broader set of caring […]
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SEL & Mindset
Your “Passion” Probably Isn’t Your Passion
By: Aaryan Harshith. If there’s one thing that matters in life, it’s what you are passionate about. But, is that right?
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Place Based Education
Activate Your Hallways!
[…] to isolated classrooms, but they are also creating vast stretches of grossly underutilized floor area within the school. Recouping this area is a huge opportunity, financially and educationally. Since the revelation of non-learning hallways, I’ve had a chance to talk to countless teachers and students who share similar frustrations. “If we just had a […]
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EdTech
Balancing Act: Preserving Children’s Rights in the Digital Age
As policymakers increasingly wade into regulating children’s access to and use of online technologies, the time has come for a national conversation about youth rights in the digital age. Requiring thoughtful content filters and age-appropriate design that encourages digital citizenship will be far more effective in the long run than sweeping restrictions.
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Future of Learning
The Ready Player One Test
Dagan Bernstein explores four guidelines for the implementation of learning that uses immersive technology.
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Equity & Access
Elevating Women Educators is More Important Than Ever
[…] isolation. Having a personal connection to someone responsible for guiding early career moves has a high impact. Superintendent Mary Elizabeth Davis shared, “The opportunity we have as educational leaders to continue investing in people and stretching their own belief in their capacity is one of the most rewarding things we get to do in […]
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Equity & Access
How to Design a School for Belonging
[…] of belonging for children as they’re growing up, they’re more likely to become adults who create this kind of world for others—and isn’t that the highest goal education can achieve? Most school leaders probably think they already do things to make students feel like they belong. But, this isn’t the case. Painting your walls […]
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Future of Learning
Podcast: Giving the Gift of Place (Repost)
[…] a place, for generations to come, that inspired people to follow their curiosity and to act decisively on behalf of the places relevant to the individual. “ Place-based education is the interest and ability to engage with a place, to dive deeper, to ask questions,” said Girard. “It’s the kind of learning experiences that young […]
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Future of Learning
Podcast: Greg Smith on Climate Collapse
In our special edition Friday podcast episode, Tom speaks with Greg Smith about climate change and place-based education.
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Competency-Based Education
Claudette Trujillo on Implementing and Sustaining Competency-Based Education
On this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast, Rebecca Midles sits down with Claudette Trujillo to discuss effective competency-based education.
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