Audience
Future of Learning
How a Texas School District Took Personalized Learning From Vision to Reality
By: Vickie Vallet-McWilliams and Melissa Mccalla. Pasadena Independent School District was on a journey to find personalized learning plans that work and implemented Summit’s educational approach.
SEL & Mindset
Teacher Reflections on Practicing Student-Driven Formative Assessment
By: Barbara Jones. Three teachers' daily formative assessment-driven practices of transparency, modeling and support enable them and their students to shift mindsets towards greater shared responsibility for learning.
Leadership
Differentiating Family Engagement
Amanda Winkelsas discusses how we can do more in our schools and classrooms by preparing educators to differentiate family engagement.
Future of Learning
Creating a More Inclusive School Community Starts With Intentional Support for Teachers
By:Â Nichelle Bowes, Ed.D. Once we build the pathways into teaching, we have to think about how to best support our aspiring and veteran educators to successfully support each of their students. Nichelle Bowes offers a few lessons she has learned through her career.
Early Learning
Reggio Emilia: The Future of Learning Has Roots in the Past
By: Beth Holland. Numerous current initiatives focus on creating personalized learner experiences through modern trends such as high-quality project-based learning (HQPBL) and design thinking. However, this pursuit to deliver learning that fuels each whole child has its roots in the Reggio Emilia Approach that Loris Malaguzzi first envisioned in the 1940s.
Future of Learning
Looking Back: Versatile Tools That Made a Difference
As part of her yearly practice, and ongoing reflection, Rachelle Dene Poth likes to look back over the year and the changes that she have made in her class, the tools used and what helped her to provide a more diverse and engaging learning experience for my students.
Personalized Learning
Pathways to Personalization: Highlander Institute’s Framework for School Change
A problems-of-practice approach also lends itself to models that improve the system we have rather than lead to breakthrough innovations. In particular, it’s hard for one or two pilot teachers to build a competency-based system where students are learning at six different learning levels in multiple subjects.
STEM & Maker
How to Teach STEM Without Being an Engineer
Leading successful STEM experiences has less to do with your actual knowledge as an instructor (though it helps), and more to do with the MINDSET you take with kids. In this post, discover the five MAKER mindsets and how YOU can develop them.
Leadership
Developing the Whole Child One Collaboration at a Time
By: Lindsay Portnoy. Often the most difficult part of learning is understanding something well enough to teach it to others, however, by modeling continued growth through collaboration and communication, educators Rebecca Henderson and Mark Davis have created a culture of persistence and problem-solving in their classrooms.
Personalized Learning
New Guide Helps Parents Support Students in LEADing in Their Learning
Following the success of both the "Learning Differences MOOC-Ed" for educators and the "Students LEAD" course, The Friday Institute launched "Letting Students LEAD," a parent-directed companion resource to further support maximizing student learning.