leadership
Ed Policy
6 Ways State Policymakers Can Build More Future-Focused Education Systems
State policymakers can play a key role in shifting education systems to be more learner-centered and future-focused. Here are six ways they can get started.
EdTech
The Rise of Artificial Intelligence and the Implications for School Districts
Tom Vander Ark recently gave a testimony at a school board meeting about the short and long-term implications of AI.
Equity & Access
12 Shifts to Move from Teacher-Led to Student-Centered Environments
Kyle Wagner observes 12 fundamental shifts that can take a classroom from being a teacher-led experience to an engaging student-led one.
New Pathways
Microschools Changing the Phoenix Education Landscape
Our recent visits to microschools in Phoenix illuminate the flexible and highly-personalized nature of small school models.
Learning Design
Small Schools, Big Umbrella: Expanding, Defining and Scaling the Microschool Ecosystem
The blog explores the increasing attention on microschools as a personalized educational alternative and highlights different scaling approaches for microschools in both private and public sectors.
Difference Making
‘Anxious’ Generation? More Like ‘Action’ Generation: America’s Students Are Building a Better World
This year more than 130 schools will be participating in Better World Day, an event created by the nonprofit organization EL Education.
Early Learning
Where Seldom is Heard a Discouraging Word: Farm-based Microschools
Microschools that leverage outdoor assets like farms are a great way to create sustainable, accessible and community-connected education experiences.
Leadership
Building Better Schools: The art of leading change in education
Education transformation leader Tyler Thigpen explores the concept of dependent learning in schools, challenging traditional education models and advocating for student empowerment and self-directed learning.
Leadership
The Changing Role of Today’s EdLeader
Amidst shifts in education driven by factors like teacher shortages and advancing technology, innovative solutions such as "grow your own" programs and collaborative staffing models are emerging. In preparing our future educators, we need to see beyond how we have traditionally trained.
Ed Policy
Beyond Bans: Schools’ Role in a Hard Reset on the ‘Phone-Based Childhood’
Responding to Jonathan Haidt’s recent claims about phone-based childhood, Julia Freeland Fisher argues that schools must play a core leadership role in phone use and artificial intelligence.