Professional Learning
Smart Planet
3 Quick Tips and 40+ Resources for Globalizing Your Learner Experiences
Our job as educators is to prepare the next generation of global citizens to consider and value a diversity of perspectives, communicate effectively and take action. Where to start?
Competency-Based Education
Competency-Based Micro-credentials are Transforming Professional Learning
It's time to make way for micro-credentials -- the future of professional learning. There is nothing micro about how competency-based credentials have the potential to change the professional learning game on a MACRO-level.
Featured
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.
SEL & Mindset
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.
Leadership
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.
Leadership
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.
SEL & Mindset
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.
Leadership
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.
EdTech
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.
Competency-Based Education
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.