Place Based Education
edreform
Leadership
My Inspiration to Carry on a Legacy
Karla Phillips has spent many years encouraging high expectations for all children. However, as the mom of a special needs daughter, she also realizes the need to see all children with limitless potential as we continue the legacy of advocates helping students with special needs fulfill dreams.
Leadership
Do You Know Me? The Voice of a Disgruntled Student in a Boring Class
These heartfelt words from Student X will shake you to your teaching core, motivate you to ex-out any negativity and constantly inspire you to bring your “A” game to the classroom.
Leadership
#YearInReview: End of Standards-Based Reform, Rise of Maker
The passage of ESSA marks the end of standards-based reform and the rise of maker is a sign of more student learning and personalized learning.
Ed Policy
Shared Commitment to Education Opportunity at EIE15
There was a call for a new approach to education reform--that acknowledges a shared commitment to education opportunity across party lines and ideologies--that was palpable among the participants in three days of activities at ExcelinEd’s 2015 Summit on Education Reform.
Ed Policy
Boosting College and Career Readiness through Course Access
Course Access is an exciting policy approach that is boosting College and Career Readiness.
Ed Policy
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.
Personalized Learning
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.
Leadership
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.
Leadership
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.
Leadership
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."