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SEL & Mindset
How Minecraft Supports Social and Emotional Learning in K–12 Education
Many K-12 educators have enthusiastically embraced gaming as a means for building SEL skills, and Minecraft is one of the most popular options. In this publication, we explore the potential connections between classroom use of Minecraft and K-12 students’ SEL outcomes.
EdTech
Getting Smart on Data Interoperability
This Smart Bundle features case studies from the perspective of educators and administrators, as well as a series of profiles that share how companies are thinking, planning and guiding their product development process to address these user needs.
EdTech
Easy-to-Use Guide: The Instruction and Technology Integration Model
The K-16 Instruction and Technology Integration Model is transforming teaching and personalizing learning for students in Mississippi and beyond. We teamed up with its creator to design an easy-to-use guide so that educators across the country can benefit from it.
SEL & Mindset
An Integrated Approach to Academic and Social Supports
In our latest publication, Tom Vander Ark and Mary Ryerse make the case for college readiness, relay the story of the academic and social-support-driven AVID program, and illustrate how partnerships can enhance college, career and life readiness initiatives.
SEL & Mindset
A Personalized and Integrated Approach to College, Career and Life Readiness
In the first of a two-part series, this publication illuminates the need for readiness, narrates the story of the high-impact Career Guidance Washington program and illustrates how partnerships can enhance college, career and life readiness initiatives.
Project-Based Learning
Preparing to Lead in a Project-Based World
This publication shares how technology is exponentially changing the learning landscape, how the roles for education and community leaders are being redefined accordingly, and how individuals and groups can prepare to lead in this increasingly project-based world.
Place Based Education
Quick Start Guide to Place-Based Professional Learning
As educators begin to think about how the community can be a classroom for students, it is important for them to develop their own sense of place and long-term strategies to ensure effective implementation. This guide can help prepare teachers for Place-Based Education.
Place Based Education
Quick Start Guide to Place-Based Education
Our team has visited hundreds of schools. The best all had something in common: teachers created learning opportunities for students out in the "real world." In this publication, we explore how more teachers and schools can start doing the same.
Place Based Education
What is Place-Based Education and Why Does it Matter?
As part of a three-part series sharing information and experiences we've gathered from dozens of contributors around the power of Place-Based Education (PBE), this first publication provides an overview of PBE including definitions, benefits and examples.
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.