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Future of Learning
Antonia Rudenstine on RedesignU’s New Vision for Education
On this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast, Rebecca Midles sits down with Antonia Rudenstine to discuss the new vision of RedesignU, the future of content mapping and more.
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Podcasts
Dr. Gilda Barabino on Olin College’s Powerful Learning Environments
On this episode of the podcast, Tom is joined by Dr. Gilda Barabino to discuss the future of engineering and active learning in higher ed.
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Equity & Access
Literacy Concerns in the New Mutuality
In this time of crisis, principals and other school staff have led with solidarity to make sure basic needs are met and are now pivoting to new strategies for protecting instructional time. Emergency response plans to team up and deploy devices and even wifi access points emerged and are now ubiquitous. And yet, for […]
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Personalized Learning
Successful Play-Based Learning in Virtual Environments
Of all things instructional that may be challenging to facilitate in the distance environment, play-based learning may be one of the most. But don’t tell that to Teacher Aidan Bybee who has been making quite an impression with her virtually-facilitated play-based instruction and activities. Bybee, along with her team at iLEAD Agua Dulce […]
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Competency-Based Education
Mastery Learning in Action
Mastery Learning in Action, a paper recently published by the Mastery Transcript Consortium, offers a comparative structure based on visits and interview from five of its member schools.
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Difference Making
Rebellion As An Act of Community and Self-Love
Albert Camus’ prescient 1950 essay on how the act of rebellion serves as a good for your community and yourself rings true today.
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Leadership
A New Market For Volunteers: Teens Tutor Teens
By: Gabriela Nguena Jones, Erin Kim, Anne Wang, Meghna Raman, and Dana Agbede In a common classroom, where the average number of students is 23, it can be difficult for individual students to keep up with the pace of the curriculum set by school districts. There are many factors that affect a student’s ability […]
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Series
Getting Clearer: Student Access
As we read on responses to school closures and imperatives for schooling moving forward, there is continuous mention of student access. Many times, it’s in conjunction with equity, as phrases like “equity and access” are common in resources and professional development. What do we mean by access? Why do we need to mention access when the […]
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Getting Through
Arguing for Agency: One Student-led Classroom Debate at a Time
By: Les Lynn and Eric Tucker Understanding the ins and outs of the COVID-19 pandemic can be difficult—information changes almost daily, and public health guidelines shift, too. For schools grappling with these changes, it can be confusing. But it’s also a powerful learning opportunity for students: a chance to foster critical thinking skills and […]
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Leadership
A Pivot Within A Pivot: Getting InspirED With Educators to Define and (re)Define Success
[…] came together, as the InspirED Global Fellows, intending to travel to Singapore to learn about how that small country’s big investment in human talent has created one of the highest-performing education systems in the world. Our partner, Las Vegas Sands, believed in our mission to bring what we learned back to local educators and […]
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