Active Learning: The Secret to El Paso’s Success
Through their 2020 Transformation plan, El Paso Independent School District (EPISD) has used active learning to unlock meaningful learning.
Addressing the Challenges of Remote Learning for Emergent Bilingual Students
By: José Viana. The following recommendations support teachers to refocus successful strategies in teaching emergent bilingual students in the classroom and modify evidence-based practices to online learning.
Leaning into the Innovation Opportunity
[…] where they are, and encouraging work that matters– combining social and emotional learning, competency-based learning, and project-based learning. These learner-centered strategies can be incorporated into the core blended learning that students engage with at schools and when learning remotely. They can also serve as the design principles for new academies and micro-schools serving unique groups […]
Why Collaborate for Online Learning? Because it Just (Net)Works
Jessica Slusser explores why collaborating for online learning works.
Bringing Project-Based Mentors into The Educational Fold
[…] if they are older or retired. An opportunity to do something with a common creative goal, and to bring together a rich diversity of perspective, makes the blended experience uniquely rich and motivating. One benefit for the mentor is a psychological reward—for being engaged and sharing your knowledge, and another is practical—in having a […]
Nate Kellogg & Gwen Baker on Real-Time Redesign for Schools and Districts
[…] shares his thoughts on the Strategy Lab cohort. Mentioned in This Episode: Nate Kellogg The Learning Accelerator Gwen Baker Bellwether Education Partners Strategy Lab Real–Time Redesign Monterey Peninsula Unified School District Indianapolis Public Schools Austin ISD Mastery Charter Phoenix Charter Academy Cedar Rapids Community School District Warren Morgan Suzanne Newell Balance With Blended Learning: Partner With Your Students to Reimagine Learning and Reclaim Your Life, by Catlin R. Tucker Getting Smart Podcast Ep.293: “Beth Rabbit and Asaf Bitton on the State of Health and the Parabola Project” 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 […]
How We Can Support Educators and Parents in the Midst of ‘Crisis Schooling’
By: Amy Valentine. A former online teacher and school leader differentiates crisis learning from remote learning and advices parents on how to best support online learning for their school-age kids.
The New Fundamentals: Tools to Optimize Remote and Blended Learning and How Educators Can Use Them This Year
Global education advisor Giancarlo Brotto explores how edtech is transforming instruction to make learning more visible, accessible, and progressive.
Students and Equity at the Heart of School Redesign
[…] standards-based practices, found four teachers and an instructional coach who would be willing to, as Newell put it, “play in the sandbox” and started reading Catlin Tucker’s Balance with Blended Learning, an inspiring book that was deeply rooted in mastery and standards-based learning. “There is no better gasoline in the tank than bringing the students into the […]
Creativity Made Easy: How Your Students Can Practice the Skill for the 21st-Century
[…] world, we need to remember the importance of creativity, especially while we as a nation are focused on memorization and making up for what is called the learning loss. In an article entitled Schools Are Getting Billions In COVID Relief Money. Here’s How They Plan To Spend It, many schools are planning more after-school […]