Phoenix Charter Academy on The Primary Person Advisory Model
[…] student progress. Phoenix Charter Academy is a member of The Learning Accelerator’s Strategy Lab Cohort. As storytelling partners on the project, we are thrilled to share this vital work that helps districts work together to accelerate the development of a more resilient and equitable education future. Scarlet Im and Marisa Balleani are two Phoenix Charter […]
Experiencing Success In What’s Next: The Six Pillars of New Pathways
[…] create sustainable systems to scale the process and impact policies. Many learners are navigating high school (and beyond) without a sense of who they are, what they’re good at, or what change they want to see in the world. When a journey to personalized pathways for learners is realized, the future of education and […]
Timetable Absurdity
[…] experience deciding how to learn, where to learn, and when to learn, because schools account for every minute. Schooling is predicated on the perception that busyness is good. Treadmill schedules leave little time for deep learning, quietude, or human connections. What does our allocation of time say about what we value in the teaching and learning […]
How Systems and States Can Encourage Better Project-Based Learning
[…] regulate learning and behavior, and make skills more transferable to new contexts. Activities are easy, projects are hard it can be challenging to develop and support good projects. When I visited a “project-based” northern elementary school in January 2020, the fall project was paper snowflakes. Yes, the kids were engaged and there was […]
Town Hall Recap: Building a Growth Mindset Culture
[…] Links Passion is about the individual but if we encourage young adults to think about a purpose level, the collective, then the growth mindset ties into what’s good for the world also. Nate McClennen The Getting Smart team is thrilled to work with a number of great organizations and partners on embedding growth mindset. […]
Getting to Yes: How to Spur Treatment for Mental Health
[…] you can hear the ambivalence and then, gently, support your child’s own inclination to change. By asking thoughtful questions, you can help your child arrive at a good decision all by themselves. For example, you might ask: “If you did decide to get help, what qualities would you look for in a therapist, given […]
It is Time to Redefine Entrepreneurship, Focusing on the Skilled Trades
[…] Many nights as a family, we sit around the television and watch “Shark Tank.” To witness life-changing moments for people who have persevered has always made for good TV. Ingenuity and grit are at the core of the American dream, and the “Shark Tank” concept has been copied and adapted across college and school […]
Maggie Favretti and Benjamin Freud, PhD. on Regenerative Learning and Rediscovering Our Relationship to All Living Systems
[…] we are thinking a lot about Green Schools – sustainability, regenerative learning and equitable and inclusive future. Maggie is founder of DesignEd 4 Resilience and is currently working on a new book titled Beyond Futurephobia: Teaching, Learning and Life in the Age of Climate Disasters. Benjamin is the co-founder of Coconut Thinking and has […]
North Star Goal: Every Learner on a Personalized Pathway
[…] vision of this coalition is to have “every high school student in Massachusetts on a personalized learner pathway and have opportunities to earn college credit, participate in work-based learning, attain industry-recognized credentials, and receive dedicated career counseling. Every public high school will offer multiple structured pathway options that are aligned with valuable postsecondary degrees, […]
Could Russia’s 21st Century Sputnik Be in Educational Transformation?
[…] future of success. Fifty years later the question remains: have we significantly improved the education for all students? A recent article by Dan Goldstein ‘It Just Isn’t Working’: PISA Test Scores Cast Doubt on U.S. Education Efforts states that despite billions of dollars in spending, two-thirds of our students are not proficient in reading. This […]
