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Community Partnerships and School-Adjacent Experiences Are Powerful Ways to Rebundle Learning
In communities nationwide, a growing range of free and low-cost learning opportunities outside of school are enriching children’s lives beyond their traditional curriculum, but parents need to be able to access them and to feel comfortable operating in the spaces where this learning happens.
Collaborative Conversations to Shephard Communities Forward, Together
Rebecca Midles and Kelly Niccolls explore how school systems set the future of communities and the urgency of intentional design of community building for our learners.
Remake Learning Days Across America: Sixteen Regions Across America Join Pittsburgh to Celebrate Learning
Remake Learning Days serves as a change agent to help communities design the future they envision, for families to be engaged in their child’s learning and for youth to lead the way on an unknown path for a bright future.
The Story of Transforming A System: Spring Grove Schools
By: Gina Meinertz. Globally, school systems are in need of shifting power, practices, and tradition to a more student-centered learning model.
Up Close with Nevada Succeeds: Leading State Learning Transformation
On this special episode of the Getting Smart Podcast mini-series Up Close With Nevada Succeeds, Tom Vander Ark talks with Nevada State Superintendent Jhone Ebert, Nevada Succeeds Executive Director Jeanine Collins and teachers and InspirED global fellows Mike Lang and Jordana McCudden about fellowship programs and leadership.
Readiness Institute at Penn State’s Hope Moonshot Is Inspiring the Global Community
The Hope Moonshot project is a powerful tool available to educators to inspire a hopeful mindset for students.
How High-Schoolers Launched a Start-up to Reduce Social Isolation in Seniors
Four teammates in Uncharted Learning’s year-long INCubatoredu entrepreneurship course at Vista Ridge High School in Austin, Texas developed Walkthru, which leverages VR to transport seniors on more than 350 immersive tours around the world.
What’s Working During COVID
By: Norton Gusky. The pandemic forced educators to rethink how they design learning experiences, and continue to meet the needs of their learning communities. Here are some successful strategies and approaches.
4 Ways to Develop Anti-Racism
By: Christine M. T. Pitts. Four resources are provided to mitigate racial disparities through large-scale policy reform, as well as grassroots community organizing.
Turning Dead Malls into Community Assets
Repurposing dead malls may be the right invention opportunity to create human development centers while salvaging returns for property owners.