personalized learning
Learner-Centered
Rigor or Vigor? What Do We Want For Our Children?
Rigor has become the driving force behind the contemporary education system. What if we evolved the system to be centered on vigorous learning experiences instead?
EdTech
One Year Into the AI Revolution….and Most Schools Are Still Seeking Direction
There are good reasons to be concerned about the proliferation of AI in work and learning. But if collective response is limited to risk mitigation, communities will miss the greatest impact opportunity in history.
Early Learning
The Future of Elementary Education: Literacy Launchpads that Ensure Literacy for All
Katie Martin and Devin Vodicka propose that microschools could be a more effective way to teach literacy than traditional grade-level classrooms.
EdTech
Six Steps to Build AI Accountability
Why pay attention to Generative AI at all? Because, in the right context and with the right guardrails, it may bring productivity gains for teachers, and some level of personalized learning for students.
New Pathways
Innovative High School SchedulesÂ
Here are five sets of examples of innovative high school schedules that expand student opportunities while providing more collaborative time for teachers.Â
Personalized Learning
Not Your Typical Back-to-School Days at Learner-Centered Sites
Learner-centered leaders recognize the need to help young people lean into their personal development as a critical part of their learning and do so in community with the peers and adults in their environments.
New Pathways
Deeper Learning Requires Deeper Relationships?
Scott McLeod shares insights from visits at innovative elementary and middle schools across the country devoted to significant amounts of time for students and educators to simply be together in community.
New Pathways
Khan World School – One Year Later
Multiple education innovations are converging rapidly to build better experiences for all young people. The microschool movement, long established but accelerated by the pandemic, has led to the launch of hundreds of new small learning environments across the country. Artificial intelligence promises to improve personalizing learning, provide every…
Competency-Based Education
Charting the Path for Personalized Learning By Planning Backward
With the growing interest in unpacking learning models and refining teaching and learning frameworks, foundational learning practices are resurfacing in conversations about personalized learning.
Future of Learning
From Classroom to Adulthood: The Importance of Talent Development from an Early Age
Instead of focusing solely on passing state assessments, remediating to address gaps, or identifying students for advanced academic programming, schools must become a place where all children can develop their talents.