Beyond Bans: Schools’ Role in a Hard Reset on the ‘Phone-Based Childhood’
Responding to Jonathan Haidt’s recent claims about phone-based childhood, Julia Freeland Fisher argues that schools must play a core leadership role in phone use and artificial intelligence.
Designing Competency-Based Models for Students by Students
The Growth Framework from One Stone is a great way to ensure quality no matter what your school's growth plan is.
Reflecting on the Hybrid Experience
Rachelle Dene Poth shares her experience and some tips for virtual and hybrid learning.
Getting Smart Town Hall Recap: Let’s Talk About C.B.E.: Competency-Based Everything
On the most recent Getting Smart Town Hall, Let’s Talk about C.B.E.: Competency-Based Everything, we brought in a few of our friends to serve as guests and lend their valuable expertise to the audience’s wonderings about competency-based education (CBE). We were joined by Claudette Trujillo of Westminster Public Schools, Laura…
Learning as a Collective
The first step toward having schools bring together the collective is for schools to treat learners as members of a collective.
Getting Smart Endorses Joe Biden and Kamala Harris
Getting Smart has never endorsed a presidential candidate. This year is different. For our team, this election is about so much more than politics, it's about humanity.
8 Ways to Bring Augmented and Virtual Reality into the Classroom
Rachelle Dene Poth shares eight resources to explore augmented and virtual reality.
Guided Mystery: The Scaffolding You Need to Grow Stronger
Angela Duckworth pens the first of three open letters on Albert Bandura and personal agency.
Shifting Demographics: How School Districts are Diversifying their Workforce to Serve All Students
Here's how five districts launched unique programs that highlight how the shifting demographics of schools and communities were an opportunity to diversify their workforce by attracting teachers who serve and reflect all students.
One State’s Approach to AI Integration and Rapid Reskilling
With the release of new AI toolkits, Michigan Virtual set an encouraging example of what it looks like to create localized resources for rapidly reskilling a teacher workforce towards AI adoption.
