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2015 ExcelinEd National Summit on Education Reform
Now in its 8th year, the 2015 Summit in Denver, Colorado, will bring together an international audience interested in innovations in education, with a focus this year on how to give students a high-quality education to prepare them for college or a career.
4 Projects for Building Global Connections
We can begin a practice of global education first by leaning in, then making friends, sharing passions, and collaborating to take action about what matters.
Most Likely to Succeed: The Future of School Tour
Ted Dintersmith, Executive Producer of the Most Likely to Succeed, is on a mission to change our education system. Ted is visiting every state to lead movie screenings and spark important conversations with educators, community members and policy makers.
Boosting Access to the Benefits of Blended Learning
A vague Pennsylvania law is being interpreted to restrict blended learning for cyber schools. This is leaving cyber charter schools with little flexibility to create blended learning environments that combine the advantages of face-to-face instruction with the best of online learning.
Utah EdLeaders Consider Competency
Co-authored with Karla Phillips. Elected officials, state board members, K-12 and HigherEd leaders gathered at Southern Utah University for a Joint Education Conference to talk system improvement and innovation. The discussions addressed five potential next steps including flexibility from time based systems, a transition to proficiency-based diplomas and anytime, anywhere learning.
EdTech 10: Leading Toward System Change with Policy, Partnerships and Progress
Taking a cue from Leadership: Key Competencies for Whole-System Change was the leadership from policymakers, startups, and Edupreneurs with legislation, scaling and partnerships in this week’s EdTech news
In Education, How Do We Create a Culture of Experimentation?
Opt-in innovation, together with small-scale experimentation, are attempts to acknowledge that for too long, the education system has been experimenting at the wrong scale, in the wrong ways. The future of school, and the future of school reform, means experimenting with, and not on, each other.
Using Prize & Pull Mechanisms to Boost Learning
A DLN Smart Series paper that highlights the potential of boosting learning through incentives such as prizes and how targeted incentives for innovation can mobilize talent and resources to improve access and quality.
Funding Students, Options and Achievement
A DLN Smart Series paper that addresses today’s broken school finance system and provides practical design principles that have been tested in policy and in practice on both the state and district level.
Non-cognitive Skills: Bad Name, Really Important
Two recent reports point to the importance of so called non-cognitive skills to success in college and work. A University of Chicago literature review funded by the Lumina and Raikes foundations said, "Students must develop sets of behaviors, skills, attitudes, and strategies that are crucial to academic performance in their classes."