New Pathways

Tacoma Adding More Personalized Learning Opportunities

Rebecca Midles shares how Tacoma Public Schools has taken a collaborative approach to developing its choice schools, working with teachers, parents, and community members to create schools that reflect the needs and interests of the local community.

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New Pathways

Home Schools Grow With New Funding Streams

A growing number of students are learning in homes. These small schools create opportunities to test new learning models, expand supportive options, and extend access to new pathways.

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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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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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