How Parents Can Create Dedicated Learning Zones
[…] some space to an “online classroom,” here are some unique ideas to help get your creative juices flowing: Look around for furniture you already have that can work double duty. Clear out that entertainment center in your spare bedroom and you have a workspace that’s just the right height for a younger child and […]
Academic Magnet High School is on a Mission of Excellence through Creating Opportunity for All
[…] campus before the official start of the school year. During this time, new students meet their teachers, explore the building, get a sample of Grade 9 course work, and perhaps most importantly, meet and bond with their upper-class mentors. In the 2017-18 school year, the AMHS School Improvement Council, based on recommendations from its parent, […]
Getting Clearer: Schooling Loss, Not Learning Loss
[…] of our human existence and post-pandemic learning needs and opportunities. As we design teaching and learning now, and in the future, it is best we recycle the good mineral components of the previous education machine and build new resources for teaching and learning that serves the needs of all of our futures. Students are […]
PBL and Early Childhood Education: The Perfect Match
For those that work in early childhood education, they often deal with misperceptions – often suggesting that younger learners have barriers to deeper learning or high-skilled activities. Not only are these inaccurate, according to teacher and early childhood education advocate Sara Lev, but the situation is also quite the opposite. For Lev – who […]
Insights From the InspirED Fellowship
[…] year it brought me to Singapore, virtually of course, because of the pandemic. Through an opportunity as a Nevada Succeeds InspirED Global Fellow, I delved into the workings of one of the top education systems in the world. Even without stepping onto an airplane, my learning shifted my view of what expectations might be […]
Closing the Guidance Gap with Xello
[…] spend more than one million hours immersed in college and career readiness experiences on Xello this academic year–almost 20 minutes per student session The fully responsive platform works as well on a phone as a desktop and is fully accessible for learning differences. Xello supports: Career development and planning 4 year high school course […]
Global Citizen Year Sets 5-Year Mission To Produce 10,000 New Young Leaders
[…] for providing a “gap year” experience like no other. Their signature Fellowship experience has already graduated 1,000 Fellows. For the equivalent of a school year, Fellows live and work alongside the global majority in communities across Africa, Asia and Latin America. Through coaching, a cohort and a curriculum Fellows return home with empathy, confidence and […]
Remake Learning Days Across America: Sixteen Regions Across America Join Pittsburgh to Celebrate Learning
[…] learn about the latest astronomical discoveries. This event is all ages on May 13th. Are you an adult and have you been considering whether or not your good idea could be turned into an actual business? Do you think about what it would take to get a business started? In this Discovering Entrepreneurship workshop on […]
Learner-Centered and Project-Based Middle Schools
[…] Innovation (@WES_Innovation), part of Willoughby-Eastlake City Schools (east of Cleveland), is a 3-8 school (growing to 3-12) in a former corporate training facility. This school is a good use of design thinking. Serving a northern Cincinnati suburb, Winton Woods City Schools is an example of a school district that piloted and then fully implemented […]
Nalukai Academy: Harvesting Hawai’i’s Next Generation of Leaders
[…] Nalukai’s program curriculum includes 5 areas of interest: Digital storytelling – branding & marketing, content creation, web design Leadership – project management, collaboration, team dynamics Entrepreneurship – net working, investor pitches, business plan development Design thinking – prototyping, mind-mapping, iteration Technology – coding, web development, digital business tools By the end of the intensive two-week […]