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The Front Porch: A Rockin’ Interactive Structure

John Hardison

Sep 10, 2015

Getting Smart Teacher Blogger John Hardison shares Studio 113’s “Front Porch,” an interactive, discussion-based learning structure where improvisational acting meets a flowing and focused conversation.

EdTech

EdTech is Empowering Teachers and Improving Conditions

Getting Smart Staff

Aug 18, 2015

Bill Gates noted three ways education software is empowering teachers in his note on EdTech Trends. Building on Bill's blog, we identify 10 ways that blending face-to-face learning with digital learning is benefiting teaching.

EdTech

2016 SXSWedu PanelPicker is Open!

Catherine Wedgwood

Aug 16, 2015

The SXSWedu PanelPicker is open from now until Friday, September 4. Take a second, register, and click to give these sessions the thumbs up! Austin or bust.

Leadership

Infographic | 11 Tips for Work/Life Balance

Caroline Vander Ark

Aug 16, 2015

As parents, educators and business leaders we should keep in mind tips for finding the elusive work/life balance.

Personalized Learning

Are You Ready to Be a Change-Agent for Agency?

Susan Davis

Aug 14, 2015

It’s time that we let go and gave back our students’ agency to learn. It’s time that we gave up the controls, so that our students can learn how to drive their own learning lives, time that we took control of our own learning to help our kids.

Leadership

Improving Conditions & Careers: How Blended Learning Can Improve the Teaching Profession

Getting Smart Staff

Aug 12, 2015

A DLN Smart Series paper that shares how blended learning environments can create more and better opportunities for teacher collaboration, enable differentiated staffing and boost meaningful professional development opportunities.

Leadership

Executives and Principals Team Up For A Better Workforce

Guest Author

Aug 11, 2015

By: Dr. Elaine Liftin. Business executives, nonprofits and principals are working to improve students’ performance in often-struggling public schools.

Ed Policy

9 Digital Learning Resources: Hitting Refresh on the #SmartSeries

Getting Smart Staff

Jul 30, 2015

This summer we worked with Digital Learning Now to hit refresh on a series of papers that provide specific guidance regarding the adoption of higher standards and quality assessments focusing on the shift to personalized digital learning.

EdTech

NewSchools Ignite: Funding Entrepreneurs and Filling EdTech Gaps

Jessica Slusser

Jul 30, 2015

NewSchools Venture fund announces EdTech accelerator and Science Learning Challenge to find solutions for the most challenging gaps in K-12 EdTech.

EdTech

Personalized Learning for Every Student with Highlight

Caroline Vander Ark

Jul 19, 2015

Highlight from Education Elements is a cloud based personalized learning platform (PLP) being used in over 100 schools across the country serving more than 60,000 students.

	Beginning	Piloting	Implementing
From Fixed Standards to Competency-Based Mastery	BeginningFrom Fixed Standards to Competency-Based Mastery Beginning	PilotingFrom Fixed Standards to Competency-Based Mastery Piloting	ImplementingFrom Fixed Standards to Competency-Based Mastery Implementing
From One-Size-Fits-All to Adaptive Learning	BeginningFrom One-Size-Fits-All to Adaptive Learning Beginning	PilotingFrom One-Size-Fits-All to Adaptive Learning Piloting	ImplementingFrom One-Size-Fits-All to Adaptive Learning Implementing
From Prescribed Knowledge to Innovation & Inquiry	BeginningFrom Prescribed Knowledge to Innovation & Inquiry Beginning	PilotingFrom Prescribed Knowledge to Innovation & Inquiry Piloting	ImplementingFrom Prescribed Knowledge to Innovation & Inquiry Implementing
From Subjects as Silos to Transdisciplinary, Real-World Learning	BeginningFrom Subjects as Silos to Transdisciplinary, Real-World Learning Beginning	PilotingFrom Subjects as Silos to Transdisciplinary, Real-World Learning Piloting	ImplementingFrom Subjects as Silos to Transdisciplinary, Real-World Learning Implementing
From Schools as Self-Contained to Schools as Embedded in Communities	BeginningFrom Schools as Self-Contained to Schools as Embedded in Communities Beginning	PilotingFrom Schools as Self-Contained to Schools as Embedded in Communities Piloting	ImplementingFrom Schools as Self-Contained to Schools as Embedded in Communities Implementing
From Standardized Testing to Meaningful Assessment	BeginningFrom Standardized Testing to Meaningful Assessment Beginning	PilotingFrom Standardized Testing to Meaningful Assessment Piloting	ImplementingFrom Standardized Testing to Meaningful Assessment Implementing
From Institutional Ownership of Student Data to Student-Controlled Learning Wallets	BeginningFrom Institutional Ownership of Student Data to Student-Controlled Learning Wallets Beginning	PilotingFrom Institutional Ownership of Student Data to Student-Controlled Learning Wallets Piloting	ImplementingFrom Institutional Ownership of Student Data to Student-Controlled Learning Wallets Implementing

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