Place Based Education
1022 Results
Competency-Based Education
Design Integrated Learning Pathways to Realize Your Portrait of a Graduate
Shifting Education with Learning Pathways: Becoming Your Portrait of a Graduate shares a systematic approach to integration of a PoG.
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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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Getting Through
How To Know What Your Teenager Is Doing In School
[…] to working from home while many children are adapting to learning online, or in more severe circumstances, struggling to learn without online access, a structured curriculum, or teacher guidance. Stress levels due to uncertainty are at an all-time high. As schools have closed, with no sign this situation will end soon, we have transitioned […]
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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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