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Personalized Learning

Students Are Calling BS on High School and Opportunity Knocks

Schools talk a lot about personalizing learning, of meeting kids where they are, and yet we see most high schools continue forward with prescribed, discipline-specific courses that continues to isolate disciplines from one another despite the fact that they are highly interrelated.

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Equity & Access

Getting Clearer: Musings of an Urban Educator

By: Dese Zuberi. In one part of a three-part series with New Tech Network coaches, Dese shares lessons learned as an educational coach and the role of schools in communities.

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Future of Learning

A Reliable Hybrid Learning Model: Cedar Rapids Schools Respond to Setbacks

[…] delivery. Rice’s team had their work cut out for them but leaned on his prior experience designing blended instructional activities when he worked for the District of Columbia Public Schools. As it has been for all school leaders of recent, the stakes were high: recovering if not salvaging a year of learning for as many students […]

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Competency-Based Education

School Isn’t About Classes, It’s About Learning

By: Garrett Smiley. The easiest way for schools to ensure individual relevance and therefore counteract concerning mental health trends is by letting students lead their education through curiosity.

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Future of Learning

Cool New Schools

The Getting Smart team explores nine cool new schools that launched this fall which build on place-based opportunities and accelerating real world learning.

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Maritime School
Sustainability

Student Solar Project Bridges Digital Divide in Rural Virginia

[…] she and members of her family occasionally drive five minutes away from their house to a solar-powered wi-fi station on wheels, designed and built by Louisa County Public Schools. These stations are called WOW, or Wireless on Wheels. In one instance her older daughter needed to take a midterm but their hotspot device was too […]

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Future of Learning

Early Lessons From The Real World Learning Initiative

[…] same type of thinking to further planning for the extended three-year plan, with the development of four additional shared pathways (Early College, Advanced Manufacturing, Performing Arts, and Public Safety). Kansas City: Ongoing collaboration across district departments, as well as with external partners, enhances the work of Real World Learning. North Kansas City: Districts want more opportunities […]

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Future of Learning

New Changemaking Strategy Energizes Real World Learning in Kansas City

[…] project-based micro-school inspired by Iowa BIG.  Center School District partnered with local universities to create innovative ways to triple the amount of college credit earned.  Kansas City Public Schools allowed schools to respond. Schools like East High were able to enhance the four career academies already in place.  Most districts hired a business liaison […]

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