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Leadership
This School Year, It Will Take A Village
[…] this school year would return to normal. But students are gearing up for more unknowns. The number of school districts across the country launching new plans for hybrid learning more than doubled from July to August. One thing, however, is utterly knowable: like George, the millions of students who returned this fall need a community […]
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Leadership
Getting Clearer: Liberatory Coaching
[…] with vastly different lived experiences and views disrupted my early assumptions of what it meant to be a coach for someone. And, ever since, I’ve been actively learning about what it means to be a coach, regardless of if “coach” is formally named in your role. I believe in education as the practice of […]
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SEL & Mindset
Book Review: Otherful by Mike Kleba & Ryan O’Hara
Is our current collective situation a chance to leave behind any practice, style, or belief that doesn’t support teaching and learning — that doesn’t resonate with authenticity? It would seem so to Mike Kleba and Ryan O’Hara in Otherful: How to Change the World through Other People, their first book and offering to the education leadership […]
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Future of Learning
How Interviewing an Innovator Can Expand A Student’s Network
[…] uncertainty about the start of the school year – both at the K-12 and higher education levels – due to the pandemic. One certainty is that online learning will increasingly be part of education. “Never let a good crisis go to waste,” Winston Churchill once said. The disruptions caused by COVID-19 are an ideal […]
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Future of Learning
Teacher Care: Apps and Ideas for Finding Balance
[…] We have so many responsibilities, most likely more now than we’ve had in the past. Many of us are teaching in either a fully virtual or hybrid learning environment, which as many have said, feels like doing two jobs at the same time. What I have noticed in myself and also have heard many […]
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EdTech
Reimagining the Textbook with Virtual Reality
[…] Virtual Reality By Ishani A. and Reyna R. As high school students, we have been frustrated with how our school’s reliance on traditional textbooks has limited our learning. And we know from our fellow students, as well as our research into learning types — of which only 1 of 4 are well-served by reading […]
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Difference Making
Difference Making at the Heart of Giving
[…] few gift ideas that we believe encourage contribution and ultimately work to make our world a better one for all. Books Difference Making at the Heart of Learning: An obligatory plug for the root of our contribution focus, the new book by Tom Vander Ark and Dr. Emily Liebtag is full of great examples […]
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Leadership
Up Close With Nevada Succeeds: Transformation Starts With Equity
[…] of all their work, Fellows were given the opportunity to lead, the support to discover innovative solutions to educational obstacles and space to shift their practice and learning from insight to impact. We’ve been honored to partner with Nevada Succeeds on some of this work and are excited for you to hear these conversations […]
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Future of Work
Dr. Trish Scanlon on How Voice Technologies Should Work For Kids
[…] the latter as the primary obstacle. In the meantime, she says that all teachers and students should be aware of the positives and negatives of To keep learning she recommends that you “love what you do and do what you love.” Key Takeaways: About today’s episode. Tom welcomes Dr. Scanlon to the podcast. How […]
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Difference Making
Global Citizen Year Sets 5-Year Mission To Produce 10,000 New Young Leaders
[…] of purpose to make sure our future looks better than the present.” For more, see: Leveraging the Gap Year to Solve the World’s Most Pressing Problems Invest In Your Own Journey: UnCollege’s Gap Year Program Taking Charge Of My Own Learning Stay in-the-know with innovations in learning by signing up for the weekly Smart Update.
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