Publication
Project-Based Learning
Really Ready: Preparing ALL Middle and High School Students for College, Work and Life
In this paper, written in partnership with Apex Learning, we describe why we need to prepare all students to be Really Ready for college, work and life, as well as strategies for districts and educators to address these necessary skills with their students.
Project-Based World
Preparing Teachers for a Project-Based World
In the paper, Preparing Teachers for a Project-Based World, we explore how teacher preparation and professional learning can be aligned to--and modeled after--the types of deeper learning environments we also seek to create for students.
Personalized Learning
Blended Language Learning Toolkit: Classroom-Based Implementation
The Rosetta Stone Blended Language Learning Toolkit is designed to help educators implement blended language programs, and many of the ideas are applicable to blended language learning at large.
Competency-Based Education
Policy, Pilots and the Path to Competency-Based Education: A Tale of Three States
This publication highlights how and why state Competency-Based Education pilot programs offer a promising strategy by telling the story of three states with the same goal, but different paths.
Personalized Learning
Getting Smart on Out of Class Student Support Services
Getting Smart and Fidelis Education partnered to share more about what it takes to support students outside of class and to take the luck out of the higher ed success equation.
Project-Based Learning
Preparing Students for a Project-Based World
"Preparing Students for a Project-Based World" describes how the new economy and growing inequities are impacting students and schools, and explores what we need to be doing to better prepare students for future success.
Project-Based Learning
Getting Smart on Assessing and Measuring Social and Emotional Learning
A new consensus is emerging in K-12 education today: social and emotional learning (SEL) is essential not just for its own sake, but for its wide range of outcomes in academic and life success. The demand is clear, the tools to measure it are here and the time to implement it in schools is now.
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
The Shift to Digital Education: Four Hallmarks of Digital Learning Success
In The Shift to Digital Education, published in partnership with Pearson, we examine why we must embrace digital learning in today’s classroom, and then we discuss how to best do so.
Leadership
Getting Smart on Rethinking Professional Learning
High Tech High Graduate School of Education and Getting Smart partnered to explore emerging and best practices in professional learning, as well as the importance the role higher education entities can serve.