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The Spirit of New Jersey and Spirit of Newark

May 6, 2010

The Spirit of New Jersey is a competitive performing arts & music education organization which participates in the Drum Corps International Summer Music Games Tour. We're an independent, self-sponsored, non-profit corporation which is recognized nationally for excellence in youth programming.

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Interview: Emily Dalton Smith, Online Director, SkySong, Arizona State University

Getting Smart Staff

May 6, 2010

Emily Dalton Smith, Online Director at Arizona State University's SkySong program, shares with us her vision of education reform. She says that our national school system is like the railroads in the 1800s -- without true standardization and woefully lacking in entrepreneurial spirit to make it all work seamlessly.

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Interview: Chip Kimball, Superintendent, Lake Washington

Getting Smart Staff

May 5, 2010

Dr. Chip Kimball, Superintendent, Lake Washington School District, Washington State

Personalized Learning

NYC: Hub of the Learning Revolution

Tom Vander Ark

May 4, 2010

Yesterday I attended the NYC Symposium for Social Change. The focus was impact investing. My friends from City Light Capital made the case for investing with a high bar for return and social benefit. Seth Pinsky, NYC EcoDevo, made the case for NYC global hub for the innovation economy and…

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Rick Hess: Fueling the Engine (Book Excerpt)

Getting Smart Staff

May 4, 2010

Rick Hess makes the case in his book excerpt, Fueling the Fire, that it's time for venture capital to start the greenfield education hotbeds of the United States.

Personalized Learning

Metacog: Management, Mode, Motivation, Mastery

Tom Vander Ark

Apr 23, 2010

Learning to learn: becoming metacognitive of management, mode, motivation, and leading to mastery

Personalized Learning

Innovation Stack

Tom Vander Ark

Apr 22, 2010

Big partnerships for learning mash-up space & app store based on research and open API data/assmt/content

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Interview: Chad Ratliff, Albermarle County Public Schools

Getting Smart Staff

Apr 21, 2010

Chad Ratliff, Assistant Director of Instruction and Innovation Projects at Albermarle County Public Schools.

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The American Public Obsolescence System

Getting Smart Staff

Apr 21, 2010

American public education has "issues." The most amazing thing about public education is how long we've been able to keep this downward trudge into obsolescence going, without relief.

Personalized Learning

Dreambox Acquired: More Blended Charters Coming

Tom Vander Ark

Apr 20, 2010

Reed Hastings of Netflix makes a move. Acquisition opens pathway to blended learning models

	Beginning	Piloting	Implementing
From Fixed Standards to Competency-Based Mastery	BeginningFrom Fixed Standards to Competency-Based Mastery Beginning	PilotingFrom Fixed Standards to Competency-Based Mastery Piloting	ImplementingFrom Fixed Standards to Competency-Based Mastery Implementing
From One-Size-Fits-All to Adaptive Learning	BeginningFrom One-Size-Fits-All to Adaptive Learning Beginning	PilotingFrom One-Size-Fits-All to Adaptive Learning Piloting	ImplementingFrom One-Size-Fits-All to Adaptive Learning Implementing
From Prescribed Knowledge to Innovation & Inquiry	BeginningFrom Prescribed Knowledge to Innovation & Inquiry Beginning	PilotingFrom Prescribed Knowledge to Innovation & Inquiry Piloting	ImplementingFrom Prescribed Knowledge to Innovation & Inquiry Implementing
From Subjects as Silos to Transdisciplinary, Real-World Learning	BeginningFrom Subjects as Silos to Transdisciplinary, Real-World Learning Beginning	PilotingFrom Subjects as Silos to Transdisciplinary, Real-World Learning Piloting	ImplementingFrom Subjects as Silos to Transdisciplinary, Real-World Learning Implementing
From Schools as Self-Contained to Schools as Embedded in Communities	BeginningFrom Schools as Self-Contained to Schools as Embedded in Communities Beginning	PilotingFrom Schools as Self-Contained to Schools as Embedded in Communities Piloting	ImplementingFrom Schools as Self-Contained to Schools as Embedded in Communities Implementing
From Standardized Testing to Meaningful Assessment	BeginningFrom Standardized Testing to Meaningful Assessment Beginning	PilotingFrom Standardized Testing to Meaningful Assessment Piloting	ImplementingFrom Standardized Testing to Meaningful Assessment Implementing
From Institutional Ownership of Student Data to Student-Controlled Learning Wallets	BeginningFrom Institutional Ownership of Student Data to Student-Controlled Learning Wallets Beginning	PilotingFrom Institutional Ownership of Student Data to Student-Controlled Learning Wallets Piloting	ImplementingFrom Institutional Ownership of Student Data to Student-Controlled Learning Wallets Implementing

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