Technology We Need: Documenting the complete Learner Record
Nate McClennen and Rebecca Midles issue a challenge to those building and creating solutions in the education technology industry.
Education Front and Center: How to Activate Learning Ecosystems
We’ve always known that communities have the wisdom and skills to teach their children. The question is, how do you activate this learning ecosystem?
Closing the Opportunity Gap with Access to College-Level Courses for Every High School Learner
Every high school student in the country deserves the opportunity to try a college course in high school.
Districts Must Consider The Portrait of a Whole Child
[…] to Help Kids Live, Learn, and Thrive” addresses the concern of kids giving up or burning out before reaching adulthood. Krauss, who has experience as a classroom teacher, school leader, and national leader on education issues, explores the importance of understanding and addressing the holistic needs of children in order to promote their overall […]
From Classroom to Adulthood: The Importance of Talent Development from an Early Age
Instead of focusing solely on passing state assessments, remediating to address gaps, or identifying students for advanced academic programming, schools must become a place where all children can develop their talents.
The Rise of Millennial-Powered Microschools
[…] ensuring a future that honors the genius and fortifies the natural strengths that live within every child. I am still tearful when I recall my twice-exceptional child’s teacher shaming versus celebrating his unique way of learning. The future that I saw in that moment, a future where the light in my young son’s eyes […]
How to Stay Secure When Teaching Remotely
By: Sam Bocetta. Engaging with new learning systems for distance learning offers huge opportunities but also presents some cybersecurity risks. Here are some practices and tools you can use to keep yourself and your students secure when teaching remote.
What Self-Reflection, Peer Evaluation, and Assessment Looks Like in Action in Early Elementary
By: Jenny Pieratt. The Founder and President of CraftED Curriculum tackles how to begin teaching self-reflection, peer evaluation, and assessment in early elementary.
5 Ways Face-to-Face Learning Will Need to Differentiate to Contrast Virtual Learning
[…] bring that experience to our educational programs. Relationships and Mentoring Again, one can have quality relationships online. However, nothing may be more powerful than a highly engaged teacher-student relationship. Teachers have to see themselves as mentors, maybe above all. Students are starving for positive and meaningful relationships with positive adults outside their family or […]
Getting Clearer: Liberatory Coaching
[…] development coach for New Tech Network over the last eight years, I’ve worked in a wide range of school and community contexts across the country. Partnering with teachers, school leaders, and district leaders with vastly different lived experiences and views disrupted my early assumptions of what it meant to be a coach for someone. […]