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Future of Learning
We Built Boring Schools, Then We Put Them Online–Science Has the Fix
Now is the perfect time to explore important factors that go into building better learner experiences and schools.
Future of Learning
Microschools Meet The Moment
The board of the nonprofit VELA announced this week a $1 million Meet the Moment grant program to grow new microschool opportunities.
Getting Through
Hard Reset: What Will Be New Post Pandemic
As the emergency brake was pulled on the economy last week, almost everything shut down. Many were laid off, others are trying to figure out how to work from home. The disruption is establishing new baselines in work, learning, healthcare, and governance. In fact, it’s a hard reset on everything.
Future of Learning
Forward-Thinking Schools Begin With Forward-Thinking Design
By: Larry Spang and Emily Grandstaff-Rice. Arrowstreet, a Boston-based architecture and design firm, is dedicated to accentuating schools’ missions through thoughtful and strategic design, creating customized spaces that support today’s teaching styles and emphasize educational facilities’ unique purposes.
Difference Making
24 Goals to Save the Planet (+1 in Case We Don’t)
Studying the Global Goals students can develop leadership and problem-solving skills, and identify how they can become difference makers.
Difference Making
The Case for Contribution: Why Schools Should Empower Difference Making
In the absence of a religious community or as a supplement for encouragement toward the common good, schools can support contribution with great benefit.
Schools Worth Visiting
Why and How to Open a Microschool
Distinctive pathways and competency-based learning are just two of the reasons why microschools are gaining popularity. A look at microschools in the U.S.
Future of Learning
How New Models are Preparing Students for the Future of Work
New models are enabling students to acquire practical foundational skills for the future of work—a future that is increasingly distributed, diverse, device-agnostic and asynchronous in nature.
Schools Worth Visiting
Why Schools Need Signature Learning Experiences
Signature experiences and signature building blocks can promote model efficacy, prioritize important outcomes for students and serve to differentiate schools and networks.
Future of Learning
Acton Academy: Hero Launch Pad Goes Global
“We believe each person who enters Acton Academy will find a calling that changes the world.” In a world where most schools have mission statements about preparation for a fuzzy future, the Acton Academy promise is shockingly bold and full of agency. The promise is that through Socratic dialogs and…