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Leadership
Meet the Culture Hackers: Microcredentials Aren’t Just for Students
[…] matter of time before the school leaders needed to learn new skills for their leadership roles. Administrator microcredential tracks were the solution, especially for those moving into education leadership from the classroom. When it became ‘one more thing.’ There was a lot of effort put into defining microcredentials and making sure everyone understood the […]
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Learning Design
The Adult Learner: Understanding Their Variability to Customize Their Learning
[…] America’s economic landscape: an underpaid, underappreciated, and underprepared workforce that has recently faced the harshest of economic blows. Part of the solution for economic justice is an education and professional development system that recognizes the unique backgrounds and needs of each adult learner. In partnership with educators, researchers, and training providers, Digital Promise’s Learner […]
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SEL & Mindset
The Benefits of Play-Based Learning For All Ages
[…] work is experiencing deep fears and trauma related to workers being displaced by automation, artificial intelligence, and pure skill misalignment. Solutions are often focused on re-training and educational efforts, as well as newer concepts such as Universal Basic Income. Play nurtures and fosters all things related to this ability to connect and relate to […]
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Leadership
A Whole Child, Strengths-Based Approach to IEPs
[…] challenges faced during COVID. Some challenges are new, but others have lurked beneath the surface, starkly revealing themselves during the pandemic. This is especially true in special education. Teachers, administrators, and families are reimagining learning plans for learners with unique needs. Nationwide, over 7 million students are provided with individualized education programs (IEPs) that provide the roadmap for all involved […]
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New Pathways
Communities Develop Their Future Workforce Through NAF Academies
Education, business, and community leaders can work together to support students in visualizing and creating their future. Wall-to-wall NAF Academies collaborate with communities to develop the future workforce through work-based learning, mentorships, internships, and more.
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Future of Learning
T3 Alliance: Turning a Crisis into an Educational Opportunity
[…] power of maintaining a culture of positive productivity. They knew they had made a difference and were ready to find other ways to serve their community. Traditional education is not set up well to be agile in times of crisis. Students are often left to stay home and keep to themselves. As a school […]
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Place Based Education
Creating Connections Across Slate Valley for the Common Good
[…] their Personalized Learning Plans (PLPs) through community-based applications; to make interdisciplinary connections through Transferable Skills and content proficiencies (science, math, social sciences, English, arts, health, and physical education), and to reflect on and refine an understanding of themselves as learners and as members of their greater community. FHUHS students will have experiences in the […]
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Equity & Access
Preparing to Reopen: Six Principles That Put Equity at the Core
[…] wider learning gaps, and heightened trauma and social-emotional needs. To do this right, we must settle the ball. How we reopen and recover now will shape public education for years to come. Our mandate is clear: We must prepare in a way that is flexible enough to respond to an uncertain future under COVID-19, […]
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Competency-Based Education
It’s Time to Reassess Our Understanding of the 4Cs
The George Floyd tragedy has forced upon many of us a need to reflect on systemic racism in education. My musings have focused less on structures and policy and more on student outcomes and instructional practices. I have for months been examining my entrenched beliefs about project-based learning, formed primarily while working at the Buck […]
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Personalized Learning
The 12 Shifts for Student-Centered Hybrid Environments
With remote and hybrid learning staying on the horizon, it's critical to understand: how have expert education practitioners worldwide successfully adapted their practice in the uncertain education climate?
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