1022 Results
Leadership
Harmony’s Commitment to Microcredentials: A Close Look at their Professional Learning Experience
[…] they can enjoy learning too.” She has appreciated the microcredentials that have immediate application, such as improving her understanding of how to use Google’s G Suite for Education with her students. Kimmi McClure, Assistant Principal and Dean of Academics and her teammates at Harmony Science Academy, Cypress, TX Learning new techniques from the program […]
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Learning Design
Finding Focus: Creating Collaborative Learning Spaces
Rachelle Dene Poth shares three ideas for creating classroom spaces in the new school year.
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Equity & Access
The Biggest Source of Inequity Might Be the Way We Fund Schools
[…] in wealth and income and in policing and incarceration, you should keep digging to uncover what might be the biggest source of inequity in America–school funding. American education is largely a local affair including a historical dependence on local property taxes to fund schools (still over a third of average school revenue) leaving America […]
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Future of Learning
Harmonizing with Microcredentials: 7 Steps to Reimagining Your School’s Professional Learning
[…] the traditional PD costs. So with careful and strategic budget planning another school or district can use other funding sources (such as state funds like the Texas Education Agency affords schools here) and still make a difference converting long-term planning and spending into a similar investment in teachers and principals. 5. Implementing the project […]
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Future of Learning
Teacher Care: Apps and Ideas for Finding Balance
[…] a break. Reading. A good friend of mine, Melody McAllister, often talks about the books that she is reading and how she chooses ones not focused on education or anything related to work. She chooses books that look interesting or for entertainment just to have a diversion to break her brain away from focusing […]
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SEL & Mindset
‘Imagine Project’ Turns Trauma into Strength, Empathy and Sense of Community
The Imagine Project is a seven-step journaling process that provides young people a simple way to express their stress and/or trauma, as well as be encouraged to imagine a new story for themselves.
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Equity & Access
4 Strategies to Support Students with Learning Differences in the COVID-19 Educational Landscape
[…] COVID-19. We know that educators and leaders have spent the last couple of months scrambling to meet the immediate needs of learners in their community. The world of education, which historically is resistant to change, has been forced to evolve. Educators have been in a race against time to develop new learning environments and platforms […]
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Future of Learning
See it to be it: The power of mentorship and entrepreneurship
By: Kevin Newell. The concept of entrepreneurship can be used as a vehicle for teaching students how to solve challenges and how to see themselves, and their future, in a different way.
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Learning Design
A New School That Thinks Like a Kid
[…] and reduce their postsecondary student debt. They are working to provide flexible schedules and student-centered instruction to prepare students for high-level career options. Their unique approach to education includes: Competency-Based Education: No more traditional, time-bound courses Career-Immersed Learning: Meaningful mentoring and internships Hybrid Schedule: Options on when, where, and how students learn A Personalized Experience: Individualized, small […]
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Future of Learning
4 Tiers Of Showcasing Student Work
[…] event to showcase student learning. Students, teachers, schools, and/or districts can even participate in showcase events organized by other entities such as business, industry, community agencies, higher education, county offices, or others. Piggybacking On Existing Events Although events designed to showcase student work are fantastic and well worth it. We can also take students […]
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