Place Based Education
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Green Schools
Raising Sustainable Natives: Implementing a Garden to Table Concept in Schools
[…] the education arena, sustainability applies in both the built environment and the activities that take place within that environment. My focus for this blog post is sustainable learning, a topic I’m passionate about as both a parent and an architect. As a parent, I strive to implement healthy habits into my children’s lifestyles. When […]
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SEL & Mindset
Adaptability Advantage: We Need More Than Just Resilience
[…] with other kids at lunch, being intrigued by the possibility of joining clubs, or shifting their focus from the fear of unfamiliar teachers to the excitement of learning new subjects. In uncertain times, adaptability can be the difference between treading water and swimming. Andrew Martin Recently, my colleagues and I surveyed high school students learning […]
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Early Learning
10 Steps to Develop Great Learners: I Am a Parent Not a Teacher
[…] not saying parents are not able to teach their children many things – of course they can, do, and will continue to be most influential. But school learning requires specific skills to teach reading, numeracy, differential equations, filtrations, 5–4 rhythm in jazz, and so much more. Look through any country’s curriculum and it is […]
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New Pathways
SparkNC to Ignite Pathways to High Tech Employment
[…] support from the North Carolina legislature, SparkNC is a cooperative of 17 North Carolina school districts that will advance career pathways to high tech employment. “We’re designing learning experiences to reengage students in different ways, creating new pathways to fields that hold massive economic promise for their futures,” said Joe Ableidinger, SparkNC’s Executive Director. “Some schools […]
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New Pathways
Closing the Opportunity Gap with Access to College-Level Courses for Every High School Learner
[…] school. One such university, Arizona State University (ASU), partners with high schools to offer the Accelerate ASU program for high school learners. In a collaborative and supportive learning environment, learners access ASU’s Universal Learner Courses (ULCs) online, designed and assessed by ASU faculty. Some high schools weave relevant college courses concurrently into their high […]
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Career & Technical Ed
Tacoma Public Schools: Bridging Learners to Personal Pathways
[…] like a forklift and receiving the industry credentials needed to obtain employment once training is completed – all while in high school. These are the fully immersed learning opportunities readily available to roughly 400 Tacoma Public Schools (TPS) learners this summer. Since September of 2022 and in partnership with over 50 local and regional […]
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Future of Learning
Viva la Revolución
[…] three years to work at Brown University where from I worked with school districts throughout New England and beyond to assist them in the creation of smaller learning communities, only to find that most of these systems really only wanted the money and didn’t want to really change how they did school very much. […]
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Leadership
Go Slow to Go Fast: Change Through Focus
By: LeVar Jenkins These are hard times for educators. Students are striving to make gains after the biggest disruption to student learning in the history of American education. Students and adults have significant social-emotional needs, staffing shortages are real, and districts are confronting everything from budget shortfalls to political battles. From my own experience […]
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Future of Learning
T3 Alliance: Turning a Crisis into an Educational Opportunity
[…] towards the kind of unconditional positive regard that so many counseling programs are based upon would do wonders for all our students. For more, see: The Digital Learning Mindset Literacy Concerns in the Mutuality The Counter Narrative Adam Low is the Assistant Director of the University of Alaska Fairbanks Upward Bound and is the […]
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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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