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Future of Learning
Your School Has Left the Building
[…] of participating families increases together with a more extensive and more diverse pool of instructional, employment, guidance, recreational, and well–being services, coordination becomes more critical and complex. Smart distributed information flows can allow our new system to self–organize rather than trip over itself. Within the old school silo, we could take information flows for […]
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Leadership
From Last Chance to First Choice: Alternative Schools That Show the Way Forward
[…] have structures that value relationships. For more see: 11 Alternative Schools that are Real Alternatives 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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Difference Making
Think Global, Act Local: How to Embed SDGs in your school and Community
[…] experiences; exhibit student work publicly; and watch as the rest of your school begs to get on board. For more, see: The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals Could Be Our Standards 24 Goals to Save the Planet (+1 in Case We Don’t) Stay in-the-know with innovations in learning by signing up for the weekly Smart Update.
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Rebundling
A Podpourri of Learning Options: Pods, Hubs, and Microschools in the Wake of the Pandemic
[…] unlock opportunity. Pods are an example of how, facing an education crisis, thousands of families rebundled innovative learning experiences. This post is a part of the Getting Smart Rebundling Education campaign. This campaign will explore the future of credentialing, how to define and credential skills, why it’s critical to credential experiences and a new vision for […]
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New Pathways
Building an Education Innovation Index
[…] at the national level, but also received critique around methodology and approach. Finally, various organizations have built databases of schools based on criteria for innovation such as Getting Smart’s Schools Worth Visiting, the Canopy Project (started by Christensen Institute and now jointly run by Transcend and CRPE (who recently joined ASU Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College), Education Reimagined’s map […]
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Equity & Access
Innova: A Revolution in Education?
[…] In an 8th-grade class, students recognized that a significant portion of the local economy was incredibly labor-intensive and built on agriculture. They worked to design automated “ smart farming” systems to reduce physical output and better utilize resources. System-wide, I am looking for connections to XQ Design Principles. Those principles are: Strong Mission and […]
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Learner-Centered
Tips from the Field: 4 Strategies for Supporting students
[…] doing affirmations. I remind students, ‘You are a winner. You are a champion. You are worthy. You are a great thinker.’ You don’t necessarily have to be smart. You have to put forth the effort. When my students put forth the effort, I say, ‘oh, you worked so hard’ instead of saying ‘you’re so […]
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New Pathways
School Districts and Charter Authorizers Need Innovation Pathways
[…] getting used that confusing 4IR), a hypperconnected complex world of human-machine interaction, work is increasingly the art of framing and attacking new problems in diverse teams using smart tools. The changing nature of human enterprise (and citizenship) suggests that we need new learning goals, new learning experiences, and new ways to communicate capability. […]
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New Pathways
Getting Smart and the d.school: Live from SXSW
This special episode of the Getting Smart Podcast is a live broadcast of a conversation between Tom Vander Ark and authors from the Stanford d.school about recent publications.
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Difference Making
Difference Making at the Heart of Giving
[…] If you have additional ideas for gifts that could inspire difference making or contribution, drop them in the comments below, or please email your ideas to Editor@Getting Smart.com. For more, see: Difference Making Page Tom Vander Ark on Difference Making and Schools Alive with Possibility Stay in-the-know with innovations in learning by signing up […]
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