The Future of Leadership is about Legacy, not Self-Preservation
What is the future of leadership in education and how can leaders keep learning systems continually thriving? Kelly Niccolls explores.
LEAP from the Era of Accountability to the Age of Personalization
Dr. Chip Pettit and Dr. Eric J Ban detail how education leaders can take what we’ve learned from the era of accountability and LEAP to a new age of personalization at scale.
4 Assessment Practices for Special Populations to Address Backlogs and Burnouts
[…] quickly spread. A high percentage of students and staff testing positive and going into quarantine further hindered in-person learning. The constant uncertainty has been weighing heavily on education professionals. About 40% of those working in K-12 education have considered changing jobs because of anxiety, stress, depression and burnout resulting from the pandemic, the National Education Association noted. […]
Five Benefits of a Global Virtual Internship
[…] health science students from Nipomo High School in Nipomo, CA supported health-based organizations in Honduras and Ghana, learning about local health topics and challenges, and helping develop education materials on prevention, detection, and treatment. “Not only did they learn more about various health topics such as telemedicine, burn prevention and burn treatment, but they […]
National CAPS Network Promotes Real World Learning
[…] projections. A New Way of Learning Corey Mohn took over CAPS leadership in 2014. A steady stream of visitors signaled broad interest in the model which combines career education and college prep in community-connected personalized pathways. Mohn, an entrepreneur turned educator, saw the opportunity to develop a network of affiliated programs and by 2018 there […]
Finding Our Common Language
By: Susmita Pratihast In schools, classrooms, desks, and online learning environments across the country, educators are showing up daily to provide educational experiences for our students. While balancing the challenges of their personal and professional lives, they’re often responsible for creating the lesson plans that our students learn from. So often those throughout the […]
Peer Mentoring Works…and Now It’s Scalable
[…] embarrassment, they avoid questions—and in doing so, they shut down their thinking,” said Wells. This realization led Wells to a collaboration with Dr. Mark Manasse, Thinkist’s Chief Education Officer. Through a chance meeting in 2021, Manasse and Wells merged their tutoring backgrounds to create a program that meets the needs of the whole student. […]
Reimagining Charter School Authorizing to Focus on Student Learning and Development
We have been reflecting on the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic across school communities and have noticed two things about our public education system: It’s full of caring, empathetic professionals willing to put in Herculean efforts to meet the needs of students and families. At the same time, bureaucracy often stands in the way […]
10 Steps to Develop Great Learners: I Am a Parent Not a Teacher
[…] so often requires knowledge not yet taught at school and thus depends on parents to provide this project information. Professor John Hattie is a renowned researcher in education. His research interests include performance indicators, models of measurement and evaluation of teaching and learning. Kyle Hattie is a Year 6 Teacher working in a Primary […]
Mind the Artificial Intelligence Gap
By: Eric Wang I was fortunate to be one of the education technology leaders to present at the 2022 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego in April. It was an honor to host a panel on artificial intelligence in education and to rub elbows with so many smart, engaged and solution-oriented people. In the days since I’ve been […]