Four Strategies for School Leaders to Build Lasting and Positive Change during COVID-19
[…] the classroom. Building PLC and lesson planning days into the schedule. Listening to teachers calls for support – many schools have invested in PD specifically focused on blended learning because teachers asked. 3) Build a PLC into the schedule. Make sure to carve out enough time for PLCs to meet. A well-structured and facilitated […]
The Best Super Bowl Sunday Ad Champions Equity in Education #WhatDoesItTake
[…] back burner. It’s time to shift our mindset and consider the needs of our most vulnerable students first. Family communication, online instruction, teleconferencing and counseling, independent study, blended learning, needs assessment, and data tracking and analytics are each stronger and more effective when they are designed to meet the needs of all learners. School […]
Closing the Digital Divide for Parents: A COVID-19 Story
[…] for one hour. I asked Amy Valentine, CEO at Future of School, about why Future of School started the Resilient Schools Project and she said, “Online and blended learning are not new to America, instead it is new to most Americans, especially parents! With unprecedented change already underway, schools and districts will need to […]
20 Invention Opportunities in Learning & Development
[…] worsened by the last 12 months. With that said, not all of the included inventions improve quality and equity. Some pandemic delivery inventions (like hybrid schedules leveraging blended solutions) made the best of compound constraints and served some learners well while disadvantaging others. Some solutions like small group learning pods offered acceleration for a […]
TLA’s Real-Time Redesign Toolkit Helps Schools Make Practical and Positive Change
[…] and goal-setting to support standards-aligned feedback to students; and Mastery Charter Schools: integrating ISTE Standards for Students into core content to support achievement and independence in a blended learning model for high school. The last year has been ridden with variables, novel and known, that have disrupted school services. TLA’s Real-Time Redesign toolkit is […]
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 […]
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 […]
Preparing for the Future: Building Interest in Computer Science
[…] their coding skills through a tag tile programming language which is a puzzle-like coding concept. Kubo Play is a new simulation tool that works well for a blended learning experience by giving students hands-on coding activities and 300 tasks that cover ISTE standards for coding. Mblock: Easy to get started with coding by choosing to […]
The 5 Steps of Design Thinking Help Drive School Improvements
[…] team use observations, surveys, focus groups, etc. to understand what the user is saying, thinking, feeling, and doing relative to the problem at hand. Ryan Schultz, a Blended Learning Coordinator at the Poudre School District’s Futures Lab (CO), used this process as part of his efforts to set up his hybrid classroom. By actually sitting […]
Why Students Should Co-author Learning
[…] of industry partners, teachers help learners build and manage projects across the curriculum. The short and long-term co-authoring opportunities at Clairemont aren’t universal. In fact, the tech-enabled blended learning (often referred to as personalized learning) on the rise over the last two decades and accelerated by the pandemic actually reduced co-design opportunities for many […]
