Place Based Education
smart cities
Ed Policy
How Entrepreneurship Can Save the American Dream
Can startups save the American Dream? This is the driving question and title of a report that makes the case that they can. The report shares a five action and impact focused ideas to improve the middle class through policy involving the entrepreneurial community.
Leadership
The Leadership it Takes to Create Smart Cities
Leaders of Smart Cities need a vision of a better future, capacity and political capital, knowledge of current tools, new ways of learning and working, and community agreements to create environments that work better for students and teachers.
Series
How Smart Cities Develop Teachers & Leaders
How smart cities and a regional approach to talent development can share the load and create an ecosystem that continues to improve. And, how a blended and job-embedded approach to talent development creates the opportunity for personalized learning and ensures highly relevant support for real challenges.
Leadership
Good Work: Incubating Next Gen People
The most important lesson of the three year Smart Cities investigation is that every city needs an innovation agenda and an incubator of talent, tools, and schools like 4.0 Schools.
Series
10 Ways Cities Can Foster a Climate of Improvement and Innovation
A hunch is catching on that ecosystems matter for producing and scaling innovation. This hypothesis is based on two significant threads of evidence—talent and tech ecosystems.
EdTech
EdTech 10: From #iNACOL14, With Love
This week's EdTech 10 highlights news and developments from the 2014 iNACOL conference in Palm Springs, CA and beyond.
Uncategorized
Developing an Innovation Mindset
The most important aspect of career readiness may be developing an innovation mindset. Read, write, visit and think to create yours.
Uncategorized
13 Barriers to Education Innovation
Changes in leadership, varied stakeholders and low sharing are just a handful of 13 barriers to education innovation.
Personalized Learning
Another MDRC Study Confirms Wisdom of New Small High Schools
New MDRC study confirms what we knew a decade ago -- small high schools, “Have markedly increased graduation rates for disadvantaged students of color, many of whom start high school below grade level.”
Series
Cities That Work for Everyone
New tools and schools are making it possible for individuals, organizations and cities to boost learning outcomes. Smart Cities starts with a handful of people with innovation mindsets--a combination of persistence, entrepreneurship and a collaborative focus on impact.