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New Pathways
Do You Know Who Your Students Know? Better Data on Students’ Networks Can Start the School Year off Right
Julia Freeland Fisher details how better data on students’ networks can start the school year off right.
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Future of Learning
Dream Jobs of the Innovation Age
[…] ask a kid today what job they would like to do when they grow up, the answers are still likely to be a police officer, doctor, or teacher. This hasn’t changed in the past twenty years. In the meantime, the way we work is being fundamentally transformed. Automation is replacing work previously undertaken by […]
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Future of Learning
How do we prepare students to flourish in a VUCA future?
[…] you can’t predict the future or what is needed in it for an individual or a society — and also because schools can’t actually do these instrumental goals. A teacher cannot go into school every day and make sure a student gets a good job or gets into the right college. What she can do is […]
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Leadership
How Teaching Entrepreneurship Helped One Teacher ‘Build a Bridge and Get Over It’
[…] and that’s OK. I can try again the next day, and the next, and the week after that — until the morning that I wasn’t the perfect teacher will be nothing more than a distant memory. Entrepreneurship was what was missing from my career as an educator. And I think it’s what was missing from […]
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Leadership
Podcast: Elisa Villanueva-Beard on Teacher Leadership
On today's episode, the Getting Smart staff speaks with Teach for America's CEO Elisa Villanueva Beard about teacher leadership.
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Difference Making
A Vision for Transformative Education
Read this excerpt from the upcoming book Worldwise Learning: A Teacher’s Guide to Shaping a Just, Sustainable Future.
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Future of Learning
Leaders Are Not the Chief Decider, They Are Decision Architects
Decision making now includes more complexity, more stakeholders, and more agreements needed to be reached. Leaders need better tools and templates to make better decisions yielding coherent and effective change.
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Leadership
Town Hall Recap: Microschools Can Lead To Macro Change
Last week, we hosted our April Getting Smart Town Hall, Microschools Can Lead to Macro Change. This event touched on the many ways in which microschools have come to the fore through the last year and how oftentimes they enable schools to be more agile, more personalized and more effective.
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Personalized Learning
Social-Emotional Learning and Whole Child Education: Approaches for Supporting Students’ Learning and Development
[…] systemic approaches, they both focus on school-family-community partnerships to create rich learning environments and experiences that meaningfully engage students. They can both address school climate and relationships, teacher well-being and practices, curriculum and instruction, related policies, and continuous improvement processes. Many of the instructional practices emphasized by SEL and Whole Child Education are similar […]
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EdTech
Peer Mentoring Works…and Now It’s Scalable
Thinkist is a San Diego edtech startup that helps schools set up and manage peer tutoring programs designed to both close equity gaps and build a diverse teacher pipeline.
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