Professional Learning
27 Can’t-Miss Education Conferences for 2018
Check out our 2018 list of 27 education conferences we think will be valuable opportunities for educators, district leaders, startups and policy-makers to learn and engage with each other.
Smart Review | The Flexible SEL Classroom
SEL is a tricky subject to look for help on. You’re likely to either get a 30,000 foot approach focused mainly on classroom culture, or a strategy for working on a niche aspect of SEL that isn’t a targeted growth area for your students and classroom. This book is different.
New Partnership Empowers Educators to Excel
A new partnership between K12 Inc. and Southern New Hampshire University will create a new masters degree aimed at educators teaching in online or blended settings and promises to advance excellence in K-12 online teaching.
Project Management for Education
Business project management and project-based learning have had little overlap. Ask PBL teachers if they’ve ever had any training in project management - not many hands go up. "Project Management for Education" provides a blueprint for change.
Creating the Right Culture for Social and Emotional Learning
By: Anna Durfee. As educators, we can help our students develop the social and emotional skills they'll need to be successful in the future. Here are several ways to help you create the right culture for SEL in your classroom.
To Reflect or Not to Reflect?
By learning how to reflect with meaning, it opened my world to increased learner empathy and decreased stress, to the renewed realization that the most beautiful part of learning is that it is not contingent upon perfection.
Smart Review | Coding in a Snap
By: Sean Russell. Computer science and coding can help students develop the logical thinking and problem-solving skills they'll need to be successful in the future, and I found Sphero and CodeSnaps helped me implement this in my classroom.
Students Earn Digital Badges for Project Management Skills
Time management, planning, finding a critical path, team management, and monitoring are all important parts of an effectively managed project. Here, we look at one effort to make sure they're not left our of PBL.
3 Ways to Participate in Global Collaboration Day 2017
Students, teachers and organizations across the world are celebrating Global Collaboration Day today. Here are three ways you can also participate in this virtual event.
What Does Effective Educator PD Look Like?
By: Julie Keane. We know what doesn’t work—providing teachers with workshops that are expensive and don’t meet teacher needs. But what does work?