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The New Role of School Tech Leaders in Social-Emotional Health
As tech use evolves in schools, so does the role of tech leaders who must understand the impact of technology on student learning and well-being.
COVID Forced Schools to Innovate: Let’s Build on What They Learned
Let’s not aspire to return to “normal” and instead use what we have learned and expand promising innovations to better serve all students.
Eric Sheninger’s Disruptive Thinking in our Classrooms: Preparing Learners for Their Future
Eric Sheninger's “Disruptive Thinking in our Classrooms: Preparing Learners for Their Future" is a book that dares you to reimagine, rethink and relearn what you know about leading in the classroom.
Tools to Boost Student Engagement at the End of the Year
New game-based digital experiences may just be what learners need to boost their student engagement.
Smart Review: Blackbird Education Platform
Educator Rachelle Dene Poth shares Blackbird’s new middle school curriculum for bringing coding into the classroom.
Learner-Centered and Project-Based Middle Schools
Middle schools across the country are changing the world for better through meaningful project-based learning.
Global Brigades Offers Students Transformational Learning Experiences, While Transforming Global Communities
For 15 years, Global Brigades has impacted international community-led sustainability via student-funded social responsibility; and they're just getting started.
Remake Learning Days Across America: Sixteen Regions Across America Join Pittsburgh to Celebrate Learning
Remake Learning Days serves as a change agent to help communities design the future they envision, for families to be engaged in their child’s learning and for youth to lead the way on an unknown path for a bright future.
From Last Chance to First Choice: Alternative Schools That Show the Way Forward
By: T. Vander Ark & R. Midles. Tom and Rebecca share seven types of schools that provide a learner-centered alternative to traditional high schools.
Thomas Homer-Dixon on Commanding Hope and the Nature of Complexity
On this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast, Tom talks with Thomas Homer-Dixon about his new book, Commanding Hope and rising complexity.