New Small Community Based Schools Have Big Implications
Gem Prep is launching several microschools called Learning Societies across Idaho that will be using their online schools curriculum, with experienced parents running the sites at locations including churches, homes, and business office space.
Launching New School Models in Phoenix
[…] the summer. Next steps With a strong leadership team led by Heidi Alexander, the founding principal, and the ASU Prep network, the focus has now shifted to operations, new teacher onboarding, community building and curricular/instructional preparations for the first year of the school. Important elements As with any new school, a few elements provide increased leverage […]
Eating Together: Sharing Food Brings You Closer
Ayelet Fishbach details the importance of sharing meals together.
Growth Mindset is More than a Colorful Bulletin Board
As we are embracing mindset practices across the country, we need to also be more conscious of how we interact with learners; how we support their learning, and how we build their self-awareness of their learning.
Scaling Microschool Ecosystems at ASU Prep
It is clear that educational ecosystem diversity is increasing rapidly and as growth continues, it is critical that leaders pay attention to a set of important factors to ensure maximum impact on learners.
The Rooted School Network: Experiencing Success in College and Work in High School
While serving as an 8th-grade teacher in post-Katrina New Orleans, Jonathan Johnson enrolled in a fellowship with 4.0, a national nonprofit that invests in new, community-centered models of education, and provides coaching, curriculum, community and cash to those with the imagination to create a more equitable education ecosystem. As part of the second cohort […]
How Systems and States Can Encourage Better Project-Based Learning
Projects develop critical skills including problem definition, design thinking, problem-solving, communications, collaboration, and project management.
Next Generation Online Learning Programs – Khan World School
Khan World School launched in August 2022 to build a more engaging and challenging middle and high school virtual experience. As a partnership between ASU Prep and Sal Khan, the learning model design includes mastery-based learning, seminars, concurrent-enrollment opportunities and tutorials in addition to online courses.
Why Your Students Need a Manifesto
[…] asked how they want to behave toward the world. We talk about finding your purpose in life, but I think it’s more about building your purpose instead. Teacher encouragement for students to question what matters to them helps build a language around personal values, and it will also impart the importance of having values. Many […]
#CelebratingProgress Launching Youth Into Tech Careers
[…] land the role. It is essential that students are aware of career choices, like engineering and STEM makerspace, that can help them raise their socioeconomic status shared one teacher in a recent ASA case study. Community led efforts like Computer Science Education Week, occurring December 5th – December 11th, were created to address these […]
