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Future of Learning
Distance Learning: Boosting College-, Career-, and Life- Readiness
With the shift to remote learning, students are developing college-, career-, and life-readiness skills and lessons and adapting to this unique mode of learning.
Future of Learning
“I Could Never Do This Alone” – Collaboration, Trust, and Human-Centered Design at Design39
By: Sabba Quidwai and Devin Vodicka. Sabba and Devin examine the D39 case study on how they have created an environment with collaboration, trust, and human-centered design.
Future of Learning
Eight Ways New Schools Innovate
With the rapid global shift to hybrid and remote learning, there is a renewed interest in new school models. Highlighted are eight ways schools are innovating.
Future of Learning
Invention Opportunity: Measuring What Matters
By: Devin Vodicka. It's time for an invention opportunity around assessments - create new policies, practices, and tools that encourage the development of purposeful goals tied to whole-child and competency-based learning progressions.
Getting Through
A New Way Forward: A Virtual Summit on Building a Learner-Centered Future
A New Way Forward is a free virtual summit and opportunity to reimagine learning for all that will take place on April 28th, 2020.
Future of Learning
Schools That Get Outside and Empathize
By: Andrew Marinopoulos. Looking for a way to positively shift the culture of your learning community? Join Andrew as he highlights the importance of an empathetic approach to refreshing your mission.
Future of Learning
Getting Started with Design Thinking
The Getting Smart Staff has assembled articles, podcasts and case studies to help you and your community get started with design thinking.
EdTech
70 Elementary & Middle Schools Worth Visiting
We believe school visits are the best form of professional learning. Based on a couple thousand school visits, and with help from colleagues and readers, we’ve compiled this list of elementary and middle schools that can give educators a better sense of what’s possible.
Future of Work
On Breaking Convention
We owe it to the next generation to get them ready--both for how to cope with all the convention breaking but also a framework for how & when they should break convention.
Leadership
An Innovative K-8 Human-Centered Approach at Design39
While the Design39 facility renders many speechless, the teaching and learning that take place at “D39” leave visitors feeling inspired and more motivated than ever to create empowering learning experiences for students. Read more in our detailed account here.