Preparing to Reopen: Six Principles That Put Equity at the Core
By: E. Tucker and L. Kruse. The authors address some of the challenges facing schools trying to make an equitable reopening plan, particularly keeping in mind students with disabilities.
Do You Know Who Your Students Know? Better Data on Students’ Networks Can Start the School Year off Right
[…] authentic social capital-building often comes from connecting “real stakes and purposeful action” to building networks. “There’s a definitive connection between youth voice and putting young people in leadership positions and developing their social capital,” said Lightfoot. 3. Repeat mapping to bolster reflection and track progress Relationships are a renewable resource. As students goals, needs, […]
Student Leadership: The Ultimate Course for Career and Life Readiness
[…] fortunate to teach several media electives and enjoyed them immensely. In what turned out to be the middle of my career, I was challenged with teaching a Leadership class. The intersection between me, my students, the school, and the community was a perfect storm. Although it’s been more than 15 years since I taught […]
Striving Toward a Better Accountability System
[…] be held accountable in how we engage and empower our students: in our participation and performance in extracurricular activities (everything from FFA to the fine arts to student leadership organizations to athletics to robotics to bass fishing) and in the authentic leadership opportunities we offer to our students. We want to be held accountable in […]
Brooklyn Laboratory Charter Schools (LAB) Launches ‘Building Culture Back Better Guide’ for Education Equity
Educators across the country are looking for new ways to meet students’ complex and evolving needs. Brooklyn Laboratory Charter Schools released a new guide to offer schools across America practical strategies and insights to address the ongoing realities of COVID-19 and systemic racism.
A Reliable Hybrid Learning Model: Cedar Rapids Schools Respond to Setbacks
[…] with households in five different languages including French, Swahili, and Spanish. In short, their situation was complicated. In response to the pandemic in March of 2020, CRCSD leadership pivoted to keeping students and staff safe for the remainder of the school year and launched their “Return to Learn” website to explain their intent to […]
Getting Clearer: Musings of an Urban Educator
By: Dese Zuberi. In one part of a three-part series with New Tech Network coaches, Dese shares lessons learned as an educational coach and the role of schools in communities.
New Changemaking Strategy Energizes Real World Learning in Kansas City
[…] winner-takes-most outcome of prizes by supporting success for all participants through a highly collaborative network of support, including planning grants, technical assistance, professional learning experiences, and biweekly leadership convenings. Taking the time upfront to build regional agreements around the compelling framework resulted in outsized mobilization and is making the Real World Learning super-efficient from […]
Cool New Schools
The Getting Smart team explores nine cool new schools that launched this fall which build on place-based opportunities and accelerating real world learning.
Harmony’s Commitment to Microcredentials: A Close Look at their Professional Learning Experience
Part three of the five-part blog series produced in partnership with Harmony Public Schools shares a few stories of evolving professional learning experiences from the district’s journey thus far.
