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Personalized Learning
What Growth, Innovation and Collaborative Mindsets look like for Students and Teachers
By: Amber Chandler. Classrooms should be organic, living, breathing entities, not necessarily bound by four walls. Successful 21st century educators not only embrace the growth, innovative, and collaborative mindsets, but also instill those habits and dispositions in their students.
Personalized Learning
Personalizing and Guiding College & Career Readiness
A DLN Smart Series paper that offers details on processes, existing tools and best practices for creating a system of student guidance and support.
Personalized Learning
A Student’s Perspective on Project-Based Learning
By: Jaylen Reese & Getting Smart Staff. A student voice recap of New Tech Network’s most recent PBL chat by Jaylen Reese who attends Calumet New Tech. Jaylen shares key takeaways and creative ways to approach PBL instruction from a student’s perspective.
Difference Making
Knod: Eliminating the Education to Employment Gap
By: Katie Vander Ark. Knod is a Salt Lake City based talent development company working to eliminate the education-to-employment gap by producing job candidates who are ready for the workforce by focusing first on employer needs, not student needs.
Difference Making
When I Grow Up: Helping Young Adults Explore Careers Collaboratively
By: Louie Montoya. Using human-centered research to understand the challenges and opportunities facing youth ages 13-21, BIF developed a reality show series called “When I Grow Up: (WIGU), which follows several young adults who each get a chance to try out their dream jobs for a day.
Personalized Learning
Why Making Meaning Matters for Student Ownership
As a teacher of both teachers and administrators I do not want to settle for a shadow of learning. I want the real deal. My hope is that my students will get deep satisfaction and sense of pride as they learn.
Leadership
Engagement Templates: 6 Ways to Structure Learning Experiences
Teachers might call these six lesson plan templates, but with the expanding array of professional and informal learning this is an attempt to build a broader framework applicable to impact games, meetings, conference sessions, open resources, and professional development.
Personalized Learning
The Front Porch: A Rockin’ Interactive Structure
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.
Ed Policy
Utah EdLeaders Consider Competency
Co-authored with Karla Phillips. Elected officials, state board members, K-12 and HigherEd leaders gathered at Southern Utah University for a Joint Education Conference to talk system improvement and innovation. The discussions addressed five potential next steps including flexibility from time based systems, a transition to proficiency-based diplomas and anytime, anywhere learning.
Leadership
Education Leadership Strategies, Mindsets and Tools for Back to School
By: Tiffany Della Vedova. As leaders, we must work to adapt our leadership mindset and tools to fit the new environment we have helped to establish. And, having set our GPS to 21st century learning, we must pack our bags with 21st century leadership tools as we embark on this year’s learning adventure.