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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Equity & Access

Ten Ways Schools Can Build Students’ Social Capital

[…] to other families and their learners by writing recommendations, forging connections, hosting apprenticeships, and giving advice. Publicly celebrate these moments to cultivate a culture of sharing and learning. 8. Connect younger learners with older learners at the school to form mentoring relationships. Older learners coach younger ones through academic and social challenges, and form […]

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Personalized Learning

4 Assessment Practices for Special Populations to Address Backlogs and Burnouts

By: Dr. Geremy Grant When the fall 2021 school year began, we hoped to regain some normalcy and address the learning needs that emerged from remote and hybrid learning in the years before. However, within a few months, we were faced with further upheaval as the Delta and Omicron variants of COVID-19 quickly spread. […]

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Leadership

Who is Going to Teach the Kids?

[…] teachers who know their students, who build relationships, who meet learners at their point of need and who recognize that there’s nothing standard about the journey of learning. We cannot forget the art of teaching – without it, schools become factories, students become products and teachers: nothing more than machinery.” There have been profound […]

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Equity & Access

Having our Cake and Eating It Too

[…] must choose between two things that cannot co-exist. You may be wondering what “having your cake and eating it too” has to do with creating learner-centered, equity-focused learning environments for young people. It’s simple. There simply isn’t enough evidence that you can have a learner-centered education system (having your cake) while perpetuating the current […]

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EdTech

How Data-Informed Instructional Coaching Programs Support Teachers and Improve Academic Outcomes

[…] progress and overall school experience. This academic year, teachers are facing a variety of challenges as they work to help students recover from the pandemic’s impacts on learning. It is more critical than ever that districts identify ways to retain and support quality teachers. Instructional coaching is a vital piece of the puzzle. While […]

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Leadership

How Teaching Entrepreneurship Helped One Teacher ‘Build a Bridge and Get Over It’

[…] be perfect. I wanted to be perfect. I decided to stick around for one more year when school administrators asked me to teach a new course, Uncharted Learning’s INCubatoredu, for the 2021-22 year. The year-long program doesn’t simulate the entrepreneurship experience; it is the entrepreneurship experience. Students create a real product or service that solves […]

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Smart Lists

13 Blogs and Podcasts to Add to Your Winter Playlist

[…] Brownie Ken Kay and Yong Zhao on Beyond the Portrait of a Graduate Jenna Mancini Rufo on Reimagining Special Education Getting Smart Town Hall: What’s Next in Learning 2022 Brent Maddin on Reimagining the Teaching Profession Top 3 Town Halls Getting Smart Town Hall: What’s Next in Learning 2022 Town Hall: The Great Education […]

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Green Schools

On To Greener Pathways: The Future of Work Has New Opportunities for Students

[…] them to go become an electrician. Bill McKibben CTE, Trades and Vocational Skills Perhaps it might be time to revisit some of our more neglected modes of learning – the industrial arts. For decades, we have moved away from trade and vocational courses, like shop class, but it hasn’t necessarily served our students well. […]

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Equity & Access

Accelerate ED Initiative Creates Opportunities for Students to Excel

[…] school and helping them navigate a path toward postsecondary opportunities. As stated on the Accelerate ED website teams were focused on “developing equity-driven programs with intentionally sequenced coursework, work-based learning opportunities, and targeted advising and student supports; identifying a set of key enabling conditions around policy, funding, and data that are necessary for scaling these programs; […]

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