EdPolicy
Ed Policy
How States Could Improve Online Options & Save Money
As full and part time online learning expands, "an emerging problem confronting state policymakers and education leaders is determining what states should pay for a specific course as part of an offering of supplemental courses."
Leadership
Cross Pollinating Education Ideas in Milwaukee
At Schools That Can Milwaukee, we’ve assembled an unprecedented and growing cross-sector network of more than 185 talented leaders from 33 schools all over the city.
Ed Policy
Smart Cities: Providence Picking Up The Pace
After successful pilot projects, the Highlander Institute has been pulled deeper into partnerships with Providence Schools to expand blended learning and competency based opportunities across the district.
Leadership
Smart Cities: Milwaukee, Schools that Can
Education in Milwaukee is on the rise. Watch Kern, listen to Fuller, support Andrietsch, add a dose of innovation and things will get better fast.
Ed Policy
The Urban School System of the Future
By: Andy Smarick. If we want to truly revitalize our cities, we have to dramatically improve K12 urban schooling. If we’re to dramatically improve K12 urban schooling, we have to end the traditional district’s tenure as the dominant, default delivery system of public education.
Leadership
High Expectations at #NSVFSummit 2014
Today, at the New Schools Venture Fund Summit the group of more than 1,000 attendees were treated to an incredible keynote from Bryan Stevenson, founder of the Equal Justice Initiative.
Competency-Based Education
Infographic: Competency-Based Teacher Prep & PD
This infographic, “Competency-Based Teacher Preparation & Professional Development,” outlines how the role of teachers is changing amid broader shifts to personalized, blended and deeper learning.
Ed Policy
Policymaking and Innovation Mindsets
By: Joanne Weiss. A policy environment that treats compliance as the "floor" below which we must not fall, but that sets its sights on enabling innovation to lift the "ceiling" for every student - that's the "holy grail" of education policy.
Ed Policy
16 Ways to Expand Access to Learning
At panel a the ASU+GSV #Edinnovation Summit explored "How do we get equal access to education." They came up with 16 recommendations.
Personalized Learning
Leveraging the Core Budget to Change America’s Schools
Blended learning requires a fundamental redesign of instructional and organizational models, transforming the core elements of teaching and learning--changing roles, structures, schedules, staffing, and core budgets.