Place Based Education
edreform
Personalized Learning
Are You Ready to Be a Change-Agent for Agency?
It’s time that we let go and gave back our students’ agency to learn. It’s time that we gave up the controls, so that our students can learn how to drive their own learning lives, time that we took control of our own learning to help our kids.
Ed Policy
9 Digital Learning Resources: Hitting Refresh on the #SmartSeries
This summer we worked with Digital Learning Now to hit refresh on a series of papers that provide specific guidance regarding the adoption of higher standards and quality assessments focusing on the shift to personalized digital learning.
Personalized Learning
GPS Education Partners: Closing the Manufacturing Employment Gap
GPS Education Partners tackles skills gap in advanced manufacturing by providing students viable training that results in certification. GPS will be expanding to 50 learning centers over the next three years.
Ed Policy
Personalization: The New Frame
With the end of NCLB, a new frame is emerging that includes personalization, a competency focus, and work readiness. This new frame is evident in EdTech startups, new school grant programs, school district strategies, and emerging educator preparation programs.
Personalized Learning
It May Be the End of the School Year If…
Still can't believe another school year has passed? Check out these 25 questions to bridge the gap between disbelief and reality.
Leadership
Agreement Crafting: 10 Lessons on The Politics of Schooling
Tom reviews 10 lessons in school and district leadership focused on the role of facilitating agreements.
Uncategorized
EdReform & Innovation: The End of The Big Test is in Sight
What does innovative learning and EdReform have in common? Equity. Tom explores the recent history of assessment (the intended and unintended consequences), the role that equity plays, the need to synthesize EdReform aims, and the opportunity of innovation.
Ed Policy
DLN Report Card Preview: Accelerating Students in Florida
By: Erin Lockett. The Digital Learning Report Card examines each state’s progress in implementing policies that give students access to quality digital learning. These advances promise to revolutionize the current K-12 education model by giving students access to far more courses, and allowing them to learn in their own way and at their own pace. Today we're highlighting progress and sharing success stories from Florida.
Difference Making
All About That App, ‘Bout That App, No Trouble
By: John Hardison. A list of must-have apps, that will inevitably change overtime, but reflects the reality that acquiring the necessary skills for careers requires a combination of several tools to fashion a future that is both fulfilling and fruitful.
Ed Policy
Tech Training Opens Lucrative Alternative to 4 Year Degree for Millennials
Why we need more workers trained in the trades, the role of our schools in preparing students for careers and vocational training, and examples of innovative career centers providing technical training pathways.