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Future of Learning
How Systems And States Can Encourage More And Better Project-Based Learning
States and school systems can and should support learning that inspires, engages, and empowers learners through project-based learning.
Learning Design
A Key Component of Student Voice
By: Lindsay Lyons. Lindsay outlines two key ideas that are at the heart of students’ success: niching content and amplifying student voice. Â
Leadership
Summer Learning Opportunities for Community and Real World Experiences
Summer learning is full of opportunities to get students engaged in new ways of learning, being within their community, and getting professional skils.
Equity & Access
The Best Super Bowl Sunday Ad Champions Equity in Education #WhatDoesItTake
The best super bowl ad this year highlighted the importance of equity and access in schools. Here's what educators can do next.
Personalized Learning
A Platform to Support Competency-Based PBL
It’s hard to support and manage project-based learning in a competency-based environment. In this post, Erik Day shares a look at a platform designed to help.
Learning Design
Book Review: The Math(s) Fix
Rachelle Dene Poth reviews the book The Math(s) Fix by Conrad Wolfram.
Future of Learning
The Key to Addressing Covid-19 Vaccine Hesitancy: Public Schools
By: Aaron Daly and Bb Ntsakey We’re entering Month No. 11 of the COVID-19 pandemic, and finally—mercifully, really—there’s a vaccine on the horizon to provide relative immunity from the potentially deadly virus. Many Americans have been dreaming for months about getting the jab (or jabs, depending on the shot). Others…well,…
Future of Learning
Five Mega Trends Reshaping Global Learning
Imagine school as a series of community-connected projects and skill sprints that develop leadership, collaboration and problem solving skills. Imagine a web of supports that help you make the kind of contribution you’re capable of making. Visit an innovative new school like Purdue Polytechnic High School in Indianapolis,…
Equity & Access
Guidance Gap: The Biggest Challenge We Face and How to Close It
The dynamic employment market and expanding array of high school and postsecondary learning options make advisory services mission critical. A look at the growing guidance gap and why it's crucial we work to close it.
Future of Learning
Designing Schools for Shared Use: A Pandemic Silver Lining
By: Randy Fielding, Cierra Mantz, and Nathan Strenge. Now is the time to renew efforts to create and maintain shared use facilities. Here are the challenges, successes, and benefits encountered by a charter school, a large school district, and a private school that have established and maintained the shared use of their facilities.