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Graduation Reflections From an Edreform Pioneer
Back in 2003, my family took a chance. It was a big one. Not like changing to soy milk or getting a pet snake. Not anything like that. We put our kids in a new school.
Leadership
Staff Picks: Online Speech, Partisanship, Online PD, Bill Nye
Tom Picks “Telepractice Brings Online Speech Services to School Districts of all Sizes” Tom says, “It’s great to see innovations in blended learning benefiting special needs student. Â Online speech therapy works better for students, teachers and districts.” Karen Picks “Partisanship is Ruining Public Education” Karen says,…
Personalized Learning
Teachers and the Push for Online Education
Educational use of Internet technology is on the rise in school districts across the country. But its effectiveness depends on more than just access, to be truly useful, teachers must understand how it works. Technology in schools started slowly, first with email access and then with more regular computer use in classrooms.
Personalized Learning
Partisanship is Ruining Public Education
Polarization is bad for our kids. The solution set is pretty clear: growth oriented policies: low tax rates, transparent and efficient government, and an opportunity platform that includes effective education and health services and efficient energy and transportation infrastructure. That means giving up some luxuries of the past, investing where it will pay off, and treating each other with some common courtesy.
Personalized Learning
Teacher Training & the Push for Online Education
One thing is certain, technology in the classroom is here to stay. Over time, innovative teaching strategies will develop, best practices will offer guidance and education itself will become richer and more rewarding.
Personalized Learning
Telepractice Brings Online Speech Services to School Districts of all Sizes
In the face of continuing budget and staffing challenges, many districts are finding that live online speech therapy (or telepractice) helps them deploy their special education staff more efficiently, improve students’ IEP outcomes and save on costs. Telepractice can augment districts’ staffing for speech-language pathology services and enables them to cope with acute and chronic shortages of speech language pathologists (SLPs).
Personalized Learning
Can Music Really Aid Math Learning?
Most of us heard of the correlation between math and music – musical structures are mathematical in nature, of course, but can learning, or listening to, music really help us to learn math? Or are there specific musical techniques we can use to help our brains to process the learning techniques involved in decoding math problems?
Personalized Learning
Innovations High: Tour the Future of Education
This May I had a personal tour of the future of education. I toured Innovations High School in Salt Lake City, Utah. I left supercharged by the potential and, honestly, a little bewildered that a traditional school district had actually created this blended learning marvel I witnessed.
EdTech
The Promise & Practicality of Entrepreneurship Alliances For Students
The prospect of finding employment for the recent graduates has become increasingly more difficult and desperate in today’s economy. The majority of college and university programs are designed for students to take a job when they graduate with a degree. A much more exciting, and practical, alternative exists when those same students are able to create a job after graduation.
Personalized Learning
Staff Picks: Coleman, Parent Website, Flex Schools, Writing Feedback, College Readiness
Tom says, "This weeks most exciting news was that Common Core co-author David Coleman will be taking the helm of the Common Core in the fall--a great thing for the organization and for America."