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Future of Learning
The Future of Leadership is about Legacy, not Self-Preservation
[…] that surfaced in the pandemic era. In rebuke of the deficit narrative being shared about schooling, leaders have been provided opportunities to make substantial changes to their work that are better for students and communities. Those gifts have not been without their challenges, and many educational leaders have been left vulnerable to conflict or […]
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EdTech
Technology We Need: Documenting the complete Learner Record
We work and meet with many amazing schools, districts, foundations, networks, universities and organizations and a common thread is the need for a coherent Learner Record technology solution. Most innovative schools and a number of states have built Graduate Profiles/Learner Profiles and a handful have created K12 competency progressions that articulate pathways towards meeting […]
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Future of Learning
50CAN’s 2022 Policy Goals: Believe in a Better Future
[…] for the nation’s students. Parents’ worries about their children are well-founded. Our kids are not alright. It would be easy to choose fear but, as a net work and a nation, we should let hope guide us. Optimism is a core value for us at 50CAN, and we choose to be optimistic about the […]
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Leadership
A Whole Child, Strengths-Based Approach to IEPs
[…] that embraces a “whole-child” and strength-based approach to rethinking IEPs, and incorporating the latest research on learning and brain development to create and share resources, reflection tools, and guidance to support the work of teachers as they strive to update their approach to IEPs. Why a Whole Child Approach is Important Learning sciences emphasize the importance of innovative approaches to […]
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Place Based Education
Learning Suites: A First Step in Overcoming Isolation in Schools
[…] It’s a buddy system, where two teachers can support each other and interweave their curriculums together while maintaining the ability to operate as two independent environments. This works well with multi-age groupings, same department groupings, such as two math or English classes, and affinity groupings, such as humanities or STEM pairings. An accessible Learning […]
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Personalized Learning
Stop, Look, and Listen: Kilo
[…] back to normal.” I marvel at the desire to use the same, tired measurement tools to quantify the ever evolving ways we fail our students. Normal wasn’t working for very many people but normal is easily measurable. In his writing about his philosophy of education, researcher Nicholas Burbules reminds us that teaching and learning […]
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Difference Making
Producing More Successful Students Like Grant
[…] three most positive indicators (predictors) of future success among young people is their belief that “what they do makes a difference” (searchinstitute.org). He also recommends the Multiplying Good organization, which can be found at minnesota.multiplyinggood.org. Grant’s teacher showed him and his classmates, how to interview a first-grader. “You ask simple questions like, ‘What’s your […]
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Equity & Access
Reimagining Charter School Authorizing to Focus on Student Learning and Development
[…] are seven things we believe authorization should focus on to meet the shared goal of improving student learning and development. 1. Encourage a future-ready student performance frame work. For 20 years, schools have been updating their learning goals to reflect the knowledge, skills, and dispositions critical to success in college, careers, and life. Basic […]
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EdTech
Can Tech Help Reset Our Expectations?: Packback, Inquiry-Based Learning and the Power of AI
[…] are focusing on proficiency rather than building these skills is a minute we’re not preparing our kids for the challenges they’ll face in the years ahead. The good news, however, is that new education tools and technologies have the potential to mitigate these low expectations by democratizing students’ access to information. Subject matter that […]
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EdTech
Mind the Artificial Intelligence Gap
[…] explore in a future article. One of the primary problems is that education data is nearly universally siloed and inaccessible, stored in applications and systems that don’t work together well, or at all. To continue the car analogy, it’s like needing fast charging plug-ins and batteries when all we have is tanks of diesel […]
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