Place Based Education
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Equity & Access
What is Vertical Coherence and Why Does it Matter for Equity?
[…] cohesion as students approach graduation. In other words, it’s the intentional selection of curricula over the span of K-12, each of which is logically-structured, builds on previous learning, and facilitates student mastery of standards in every grade. Vertical coherence is a challenge in the best of times when teachers work physically side by side […]
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Equity & Access
How Schools Can Promote Vaccination and Address Hesitancy: A 10-Point Plan that Puts Equity First
[…] herd immunity. “Communities have a responsibility to prioritize the health and well-being of every educator and student, so they in turn can better focus on teaching and learning,” wrote Jean-Claude Brizard, President and CEO of Digital Promise. To do this effectively, every school effort must center equity. Schools should work to understand the needs […]
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EdTech
Virtual Immersion: How to Make the Most of a Virtual Space
[…] that are out there for connecting us with others in the same virtual space. We relied on these tools during our sudden shift to remote work and learning to be able to teach, learn, work, and connect. Businesses found new ways to survive and thrive in what was definitely a challenging time and have […]
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Difference Making
Thomas Homer-Dixon on Commanding Hope and the Nature of Complexity
[…] about 20 years ago in The Ingenuity Gap. And is it worse today than it was 20 years ago? Observations from Getting Smart’s “20 Invention Opportunities in Learning & Development” report. Tom highlights how, increasingly, innovation in the public space requires a combination of public, private, and philanthropic funding. Thomas highlights an advantage we […]
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Equity & Access
How Helping Students Get Comfortable With Failure Can Increase Economic Equity
[…] in the face of adversity, to learn from their mistakes, and move forward with a better plan. In August, Rich Township launched its first course using Uncharted Learning’s INCubatoredu curriculum. The course is all about giving students an authentic entrepreneurship experience, warts and all. That means getting them comfortable with the concept of failure. At […]
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Difference Making
Equity and ESSER: How Schools Can Embrace a Participatory Approach to Amplify Family Voices in Budget Planning
[…] agencies to develop plans to help these families. Some families may have mixed feelings about the return to school because they benefited from certain aspects of remote learning, such as flexible or hybrid scheduling, or virtual IEP (individualized education program) meetings for students in special education. However schools decide to spend their ESSER funds, […]
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Equity & Access
We Shall Overcome: The Social Emotional Impact of the Pandemic and Racial Injustice on Students of Color
[…] Antonio Boyd Dr. Searetha Smith-Collins, Chief Academic Officer, 7 Mindsets I spoke about the impact of the triple pandemic with Dr. Searetha Smith-Collins, a leading expert on social-emotional learning and the Chief Academic Officer at 7 Mindsets, one of the nation’s leading companies for social-emotional learning solutions. Dr. Smith–Collins is also the author of the book An […]
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Difference Making
Producing More Successful Students Like Grant
[…] a book about himself when he was in first grade. Now, as an eighth-grader, he’s doing the same with a first-grader. Grant spoke at a National Youth Learning Council conference on April 26 in Minneapolis, where educators learned more about why this kind of “service-learning” is so valuable, powerful and timely. Twenty-year public school […]
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Learner-Centered
What Can Students Do?
[…] too much thinking for students. On the trip home, I found myself wondering what students could take responsibility for that teachers tend to do for them; what learning experiences are we depriving them of? The most obvious response is grading/marking, the bane of a teacher’s life, but there is no way that students could […]
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New Pathways
Whose Accountability System is this Anyway? Kentucky’s Journey Toward Shared Ownership of Assessment and Accountability Systems
[…] Kentucky Coalition for Advancing Education, which was formed to craft an honest description of the current state of education and to chart an aspirational future state for learning in the Commonwealth, represented in the United We Learn report. The coalition included an uncommon mix of perspectives – students, educators, families, employers and community members from […]
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