Difference Making: What Needs to Be At the Heart of Learning
[…] your next event about contribution and community. Getting Smart is also available to facilitate a discussion on contribution and community and discuss the ways in which purpose-based education contributes to equity, student-agency and a better world. Workshops: Planning out your summer professional development? Invite Tom to lead a workshop with your school, community or […]
Designing Schools for Shared Use: A Pandemic Silver Lining
[…] faced by schools as a result of COVID-19. Click here for the full publication. More than ever, flexible, multi-use school buildings are essential for the future of education. The value of sharing facilities between schools, universities, community organizations, businesses, and public recreation organizations has been championed for years, but has failed to take hold […]
PBL and Early Childhood Education: The Perfect Match
For those that work in early childhood education, they often deal with misperceptions – often suggesting that younger learners have barriers to deeper learning or high-skilled activities. Not only are these inaccurate, according to teacher and early childhood education advocate Sara Lev, but the situation is also quite the opposite. For Lev – who […]
Striving Toward a Better Accountability System
[…] quarantined students at home—all the while trying to overcome significant learning gaps that had occurred in the midst of all of this. This past fall, the Texas Education Agency (TEA) announced that the state assessment (STAAR) would go on but noted that the A-F ratings would be paused. Let’s be clear that even though […]
How Schools Can Promote Vaccination and Address Hesitancy: A 10-Point Plan that Puts Equity First
[…] be clear: This will be no easy task. Most schools are already struggling with reopening. Schools are directing maximum effort to ensure that every student receives high-quality education, while working to safeguard the health, safety, and well-being of students, families, teachers, and staff. Still, school is part of daily life for many people in […]
Students and Equity at the Heart of School Redesign
Schools and districts are often in the business of designing. Whether it be curriculum, learning experiences, schedules — much of the world of education stems from arranging ideas into patterns and pathways. This year, schools and districts were asked to design like never before and, to do this, they benefited from a set of […]
The Great Education Unbundling and How Learning Will be Rebundled
What is the Great Unbundling of Education? Nate McClennen and Tom Vander Ark explore from K-12 through higher education.
School Sustainability Is About More Than Just Keeping the Doors Open
[…] to affect change to consider ways to build long-term momentum behind their vision and culture, prioritize distributed leadership, and establish strong board and governance relationships and structures. Education Board Partners and High Tech High GSE provide unique and high-quality services in this area. Extended Impact. Once a school has created meaningful positive change and becomes sustainable in […]
Launch of Open-Source Library at SchoolPatterns.com
Randy Fielding introduces the launch of Schoolpatterns.com which aims to solve a common problem encountered by schools working to create vision-aligned learning environments.
Can We Ditch AP for More Engaging Courses?
Tom Vander Ark shares six tips for education leaders who are thinking about how many AP classes to offer and what alternatives to consider.
