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Edtech Startup Leaders Host Virtual Fireside Chat Tonight at 5p.m. PT

Getting Smart Staff

Founder Dating, Inc., NewSchools Venture Fund, and Teach for America join together tonight to host a virtual fireside chat to consider wide-ranging questions around education and edtech, a discussion that erupted from a noticeable disconnect between the number of people interested in the space and the access to entrepreneurs building companies on FounderDating.
Leadership

Staff Picks: K-12, Music, Neil Armstrong

Getting Smart Staff

Tom Picks “5 Lessons K-12 Could Learn From Skillshare” Tom says, “The explosion of anywhere, anytime learning sites suggests that, even with common standards, K-12 could be more learner-driven and personalized.” Karen Picks “Grammy Winner Brings Hendervision to Federal Way” Karen says, “Tom and…
EdTech

SMARTtech Roundup: All About Personalization

Carri Schneider

Blended Schools & Tools More on i-Ready. MetaMetrics®, developer of The Lexile® Framework for Reading, has partnered with Curriculum Associates to include Lexile® measures in Curriculum Associates’ i-Ready™ Diagnostic assessment program. i-Ready Diagnostic accurately assesses K-8 students in reading and math, provides detailed, easy-to-use reports to help…
Personalized Learning

3 Reasons Why Schools Neglect Spatial Intelligence

Guest Author

In Why Don’t We Value Spatial Intelligence? I stressed that as a society we have neglected spatially talented students who are not as good with words and numbers but who are quite talented at manipulating figures and shapes in their minds. In this article, I offer a few reasons as to why schools tend to neglect spatial intelligence.
EdTech

E.L. Haynes: A Force For Change

Tom Vander Ark

Jennie Niles started her career as a s cience teacher at the famous Harvard-Westlake School in Los Angeles. She now leads the equally famous E. L. Haynes Public Charter School in Washington DC. The path in between could not have been better scripted: Yale for graduate school, a state department of education, a foundation, then New Leaders.
EdTech

Driving School Choice Through Cloud Computing

Guest Author

In recent years the words “school choice” have gained increasing buzz among educators and parents in cities across the United States. Many reformers believe that providing students and parents with options beyond their geographically assigned school will promote healthy competition among schools and give parents the opportunity to seek out a school that will best meet the needs of their children.
Ed Policy

iNACOL Hosts Webinar On Race to the Top District (RTT-D)

Guest Author

Here is one more opportunity to listen to another perspective that will provide you more information about the role that digital learning can play in a successful application. This webinar is brought to you by the International Association for K-12 Online Learning (iNACOL) on Friday, August 31 4-5 pm ET. If you’d like to attend for free, please register here: http://www.inacol.org/events/webinar/special_edition.php.
Ed Policy

Changes in the Public’s Attitudes Toward the Public Schools

Guest Author

Change is hard – something that those in the education community may know better than most. Whether it is changing a school culture, a child’s life prospects, policymakers’ thoughts on accountability, or voters’ minds on a bond referendum, educators are constantly on the lookout for evidence that they are succeeding as change agents. Sometimes that evidence seems scarce, particularly at a national level, as policymakers push education in ways we don’t always like and rhetoric indicates that we are to blame for a great number of society’s problems.
EdTech

Staff Picks: Online Learning, DIY, Edtech & Funding

Getting Smart Staff

Tom Picks “Better Online Learning” Tom says, “I’m proud of  the International Association for K-12 Online Learning (where I’m a director) for promoting quality online learning. This blog outlines 8 ways that online learning is different and 6 things states can do to make it better.” Karen Picks…