Place Based Education
learning spaces
Future of Learning
Three Ways to Design Better Classrooms and Learning Spaces
By: Danish Kurani. When it comes to thinking about the design of classrooms, we are woefully behind. Here are three ways to plan new learning spaces for the ever-changing educational needs of future generations.
Leadership
100 Tips & Insights for Opening Great New Schools
Opening a good, new school is a huge challenge. This toolkit provides practical tips and insights from school leaders across the country.
EdTech
Welcome to the Unclassroom
By: Dr. Jan Rashid. Have you heard of unconferences? Here’s how our school district is using flexible learning spaces and 24/7 access to digital content to create unclassrooms--the ever-evolving classrooms of the future.
Personalized Learning
Most Likely to Succeed Concludes a 50 State Tour
Executive Producer Ted Dintersmith is concluding his 50 State Tour for the film Most Likely to Succeed with stops in West Virginia, Tennessee and Kentucky.
EdTech
Sir Ken Robinson’s ‘Creative Schools’: Change We All Want & Deserve
Sir Ken Robinson, with collaborator Lou Aronica, does what he does best in his latest book, Creative Schools. Robinson does an excellent job of highlighting what is going right in education, while asking questions about how we can do better.
Leadership
Why XQ Super School Applications Should Include Opportunity Youth and Personalization
By: Scott Emerick. The most significant potential of the XQ Super School project is to focus innovation directly on, and in deep collaboration with, our nation’s lowest-income learners who most deserve a dramatically different high school experience.
Personalized Learning
Design Thinking for Personalized Learning: 5 Strategies for Effective Whole School Design
We need to encourage schools and districts to think differently when it comes to personalized learning especially when it comes to whole school design. Here are five things to keep in mind as you seek to transform the way that you do school.
Personalized Learning
The Essential Role of Movement in Learning
By: Scott McQuigg. As we think strategically about how to structure next-gen classrooms, the word ‘active’ belongs in the vocab list alongside blended, personalized, project-based, and many others.
Personalized Learning
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.
Personalized Learning
Applying Psychology and Learning Sciences Research to Developing a Makerspace
While developing a school-wide makerspace for every preschool-through-8th-grade child in my school, I feel a great responsibility to create both a physical space and a program that is welcoming and encouraging for all students. Here are my takeaways from current research.