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Personalized Learning
Navigator Schools: Blended Delivery, Engaging Classroom, High Performance
The garlic capital is home of the top scoring new elementary school in California--Gilroy Prep. Veteran educators James Dent and Sharon Waller opened the charter school two years ago after visiting all the best schools and “reverse engineering from site visits.”
Personalized Learning
Connecting Smart Cities
For several months now, Tom Vander Ark has been issuing rich installments in his Smart Cities series, building a detailed map of where innovations in learning are happening. Here, we profile an organization connecting Smart Cities—the Cities for Education Entrepreneurship Trust (CEE-Trust)—and its work helping city-based organizations support the emergence of high-quality blended learning.
EdTech
Making the Campus Cloud Matter to Your Users
IT professionals have been spending more and more time designing an information architecture for their schools. What goes in the cloud? What must stay on campus to make it effective for users?
Personalized Learning
7 Things Next Gen Schools Will Do Well
Seventeen years ago as a new superintendent I was invited to Microsoft to learn about 1:1 programs in Australia. The architect of those programs, Bruce Dixon, told a compelling story of student engagement in transformed learning environments.
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Infographic: Show What You Know Beats Batch Processing
The Show What You Know Beats Batch Processing infographic complements our recently released paper, “The Shift From Cohorts to Competency”. t
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Smart Cities: Los Angeles
LA significantly lags the Bay Area, New York, and Chicago as an edtech leader. The activity level is closer to that of Seattle, a metro area less than a third its size.
Personalized Learning
Classroom Management: The Advantage of Structured Learning in Entrepreneurship
Here’s a novel concept for you: Entrepreneurs can learn from other entrepreneurs in an accredited capacity. When striking out on one’s own, it’s an established practice to seek the advice of those who’ve been there before and have made a success of it. So it makes perfect sense that business students, paying and working hard for an education, would greatly benefit from the insight that successful businesspeople can bestow.
Personalized Learning
Microsoft Innovative Schools
New school models that leverage technology provide a useful picture of the future. Last week, in a three-blog series, I profiled next generation school models that leverage newopportunities, incorporate experiential learning, and promote system redesign.
Personalized Learning
In Context: Connecting Classrooms to the Real-World
In one scene of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, a classroom of glaze-eyed high schoolers stare into space while their teacher drones on in painfully boring monotone, Anyone? Anyone?
Leadership
Combating Cyberbullying in Schools, One Compliment at a Time
A lot of people walk around high school feeling all by themselves. They think that no one cares about them or that they are not one of the “cool kids.” Other kids walk around self-conscious, and under-appreciated, which leads them to the terrible world of cyber bullying. Here at West High Bros, we are doing everything that we possibly can to change that. It is a daunting task, but not one that is impossible. In fact, in our school the guidance counselors have reported that, since our group started, reports on bullying have gone down drastically.