community
EdTech
Promoting a School-to-Home Community
One area that educators might reflect on over the summer is how to foster a better connection between home and school. There are so many tasks that we have to do on a daily basis and without a doubt, our primary responsibility is to provide the best learning…
Future of Learning
Assume Good Intentions: Lessons for Responsive Family Engagement
Amanda Winkelsas shares the case for teachers, students, and parents to all be involved and lessons around positive family engagement.
Network Effect
Network of Place-Based Community-Connected Rural Schools Receive Grant to Expand
Small community-connected schools sharing resources in networks & leveraging local learning opportunities may be the solution to the rural education decline.
Leadership
What Should Graduates Know and Be Able to Do?
Tom sat down with Ken Kay, CEO of EdLeader21, to discuss community engagement and the role it plays in answering "What should grads know and be able to do?" Here's what he learned.
Project-Based Learning
Community Defined Projects at Health Leadership High
A visit to project-based Health Leadership HS, a talent pipeline and advocacy organization for a healthier community in Albuquerque, NM.
Place Based Education
How to Give Students Future-Ready Skills Through Community Service
With community-engaged projects, students learn to solve problems, think creatively, manage uncertainty, and most importantly, how to coordinate and work with others. According to The World Economic Forum, these are the same top 5 future skills needed for 2020.
Project-Based Learning
How Project-Based Learning Unleashes Students’ Creativity
By: Pamela Brennan and Brandi Zivilik. Two teachers share their experiences of how PBL inspires students to collaborate with each other and connect with their local communities.
Leadership
Using Technology to Build Partnerships with Parents
Every day, my goal is to find ways to connect and engage with students’ families, despite these hurdles. We all know that regular communication with parents and families is the key to building a strong classroom community.
Project-Based Learning
Philadelphia Is Reimagining Arts & Creativity Education Programming
By: Erik Day and Emily Liebtag. With their new Arts & Creativity Framework, Philadelphia is rethinking what arts education means and bringing it into the 21st century with a replicable strategy focused on stakeholder voice, resource allocation and community engagement.
Personalized Learning
5 Tech-Free Classroom Innovations, and Ideas for Getting Started
We don’t need unlimited funding or fancy high-tech toys to innovate our practice. Often, we just need to think differently. Here are five simple tech-free innovative learning experiences that will help you and your students think differently.