Charter Schools
Leadership
Could an Extra Hour Be The Key to Teacher Retention?
By: John A. Dues. A nonprofit coalition of Ohio charter schools is working to solve its teacher retention challenge by reorganizing the school day to better benefit staff and students.
Competency-Based Education
5 Lessons Learned in Pioneering Personalized Mastery Learning
By: Kate Bean and Sebastian Cognetta, Ph.D. Aveson Charter School has evolved its original personalized learning model into a new vision: Personalized Mastery Learning.
Personalized Learning
Examining Policy Recommendations for Online Charter Schools
By: Mary Gifford & Getting Smart Staff. The first of many analyses of public virtual charter schools points out the need for additional studies based on the unique nature of these schools’ students and the quickly evolving online learning instructional model.
Personalized Learning
Summit Public Schools’ Strong Culture and Personalization Has Arrived in Seattle
Washington state has welcomed its first charter schools and Summit Public Schools has established two schools in the Puget Sound region. A Getting Smart staffer visited Summit Sierra and describes personalized learning in action.
Personalized Learning
Changing Futures: IDEA Public Schools Achieve Quality at Scale in Texas
The IDEA Public School secret sauce is equal parts expectations and execution. Banners in every school make explicit what you see in every classroom: closing the achievement gap, whatever it takes, team and family, sweating the small stuff, no excuses, and 100% every day.
Ed Policy
Charter Schools Turn 24, What’s Next?
Tom reviews 10 trends and developments of charter schools over the past two dozen years.
Personalized Learning
To Use Their Minds Well: BASIS
BASIS is a high touch model that puts a premium on teaching talent and demands sustained leadership around a common conception of aims and means. It's a special place where young people learn to use their minds well.
Leadership
Good Schools Start with GreatBoards
New program to give charter school boards across the country access to the best-practice tools and templates they need to govern effectively.
Personalized Learning
Rand Study Says Personalized Learning Boosts Academic Gains
A Gates Foundation funded report indicated that public charter school students are making greater gains in math and reading than similar students at comparable schools.
Leadership
Smart List: 40 People Shaping the Future of K-12 Education
Today we are recognizing 40 thought leaders and change makers shaping the future of U.S. K-12 education.