future of learning
Awarding and Supporting Teacher Community Focused on Student-Centered Entrepreneurship
The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation is taking support for entrepreneurialism in education to the next-level. Don’t get me wrong. There’s no shortage of support for entrepreneurialism in education. USASBE’s Excellence in Entrepreneurship Education award focuses on HigherEd,…
How to be the Superhero in your own Movie
By: Dhruv Govil. Now more so than ever it’s possible to be the superhero in your own movie. Here are the mindsets and strategies that worked for me as I went from almost failing out of high school to Sony Pictures.
What Growth, Innovation and Collaborative Mindsets look like for Students and Teachers
By: Amber Chandler. Classrooms should be organic, living, breathing entities, not necessarily bound by four walls. Successful 21st century educators not only embrace the growth, innovative, and collaborative mindsets, but also instill those habits and dispositions in their students.
A Next-Gen School for Every Child
By: Sarah Luchs. At NGLC, we view technology as a valuable tool to support personalized learning at scale. Our motto is: lead with the learning. Because, in a next-gen learning ecosystem, every person, from child to adult, is a learner. We can have a next-gen school for every child.
Blended Learning Credit Recovery: Best Practices from iNACOL
In a new report, Using Online Learning for Credit Recovery: Getting Back on Track to Graduation, the International Association for K-12 Online Learning (iNACOL) identifies best practices in online and blended credit recovery programs.
Adaptive Learning: The Secret Sauce of Next Generation Learning and Achievement
By: Jessie Woolley-Wilson. For educators to adapt and meet the needs of every student, they must have access to meaningful, actionable data that dynamically changes as a student learns.
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.
7 Roles of a Next-Gen Learning Ecosystem
By: Sarah Luchs. Sarah shares the 7 roles in a next-gen learning ecosystem. Whether you are already in a regional partnership to spur innovations in learning or whether you are hoping to create one, Sarah points out the 7 roles to create an ideal partnership for innovation and sustainability.
Building Stronger Innovation-Minded Educators with The Teachers Guild
IDEO’s Teachers Guild is an open, collaborative platform that engages educators in design thinking, with the goal of inspiring new and creative ideas for school communities. Within the site, ideas are built in response to a challenge question posed by hosts, as users move through each of the phases of the design process while working on their ideas.
7 Leadership Competencies for Whole-System Change
There are leaders, and there are EdLeaders. Then there are leaders among EdLeaders--like Lyle Kirtman and Michael Fullan. This expert duo, applying decades of work in the field, recently came together to write and release a powerful guidebook for leading systemic (and sustainable) change. "Leadership: Key Competencies for Whole-System Change," published by Solution Tree.