Place Based Education
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Leadership
Charting a Course for Educational Transformation: The Power of Aligned Portraits
[…] alignment ensures seamless integration of the vision at every level of the educational ecosystem, fostering a cohesive and purposeful transformation. Districts and schools support these with codesigned learning models, curriculum frameworks, and instructional models. At the core of this transformative process lies the Portrait of an Educator, recognizing that educators’ competence and dedication can […]
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Equity & Access
Designing at the Margins
[…] those from marginalized communities such as students of color, students with disabilities, and students from low-income families. Instead, systems ought to acknowledge individuals’ differences and their “jagged” learning profiles and design schools in ways that accommodate variability not only across students but within them, argues Harvard University professor Todd Rose in his book The […]
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Difference Making
Students Are Still Telling the Stories
[…] and Cherokee culture. Cherokee students interview a film crew member on what it’s like to work in video production. Crafting the Story In this class, students are learning about the process of news broadcasting. Freshman, Chaz states, “This class I’m taking, it’s not an ordinary class. It involves a lot of moving parts, like […]
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Equity & Access
How to Design a School for Belonging
[…] and tools they need. They just do it because they feel comfortable in that space. When the Code Next team at Google asked me to design a learning lab where students would feel a sense of belonging, I knew that meant students had to feel like the space was theirs. I designed the entire […]
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EdTech
End of the Test Doesn’t Mean End of Data
[…] 90 minutes) in DreamBox, they can give teachers and school leaders an accurate prediction of how students would have scored on state tests. Dr. Tim Hudson, Chief Learning Officer at DreamBox, said the predictive insights are already available to administrators for K-5 learners and will soon be available for grade 6-8 students. The assessments are built […]
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Future of Learning
Creating The New Way Forward
[…] for the future they choose. Vince Sheffield, Deputy Superintendent in El Paso, described their whole child commitment and shift away from a test prep curriculum to active learning. Watch The Session: The New Way Forward Kelly Young, President of Education Reimagined, and Tom Vander Ark closed out the summit with four observations. Next year […]
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EdTech
Smart Review: Texthelp Launches WriQ for Writing
Digital tools, especially in remote learning environments, have enabled teachers to provide more authentic and timely feedback to students and engage them more in learning. Texthelp offers a variety of tools for helping students to improve their reading writing and math skills. Texthelp recently announced their global launch of WriQ, a cloud-based writing assessment and achievement […]
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Post-Secondary
Creating Promising Career Pathways for Minority High School Students by Partnering with the Business Community
[…] its goal of developing more students who are both career AND college ready.” Olympic High School uses the NAF career academy platform that emphasizes experiential and project-based learning as well as the school being led by local business & college leaders. The NAF Career Academy emphasizes that America’s youth should experience a 9th to […]
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Leadership
Striving Toward a Better Accountability System
[…] We asked them to completely redesign what school looks like and in about 24 hours local administrators and teachers ‘Apollo 13’ed’ the problem and fixed it. Kids learning, children being fed, needs being met in the midst of a global crisis.” Not only did educators do all this and more last spring, this fall […]
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Place Based Education
TOPOnexus: Bringing Back Wonder and Whoa!
[…] Service preservationists across the country. TOPOnexus is a think-and-do tank with a clear direction and is in the process of getting nonprofit status. The TOPOnexus way of learning is based on adventuring but not with a capital “A”. Instead of going afar, the focus is on the local, wherever you are. The founder, Molly […]
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