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With Remote Professional Learning, The Opportunities Are Boundless
By: Juliana Finegan. With the move to remote learning, remote professional learning (PD) is also offering teachers a number of innovation opportunities.
Reaching for Better with Teacher Evaluation and Support
By: Jim Furman. If we take the opportunity to make this a transformative year for our teachers and the profession by focusing on support rather than evaluation, we can create a system of teacher evaluation and support that is better than our old normal.
The Opportunity for Personalized and Local Guidance
By: R. Caruthers R. Midles & T. Vanderark. Guidance on the next steps in learning and postsecondary planning can equally be tailored to each learner and their context.
What’s Working During COVID
By: Norton Gusky. The pandemic forced educators to rethink how they design learning experiences, and continue to meet the needs of their learning communities. Here are some successful strategies and approaches.
Using OER to Increase Collaboration, Relevance, and Engagement
By: Katie Martin. Despite our deepest desire to be back in schools, we know that students and teachers will likely have to engage from a distance as the numbers increase, which can be more efficient, relevant, and effective when resources are digital.
Time to Redesign is NOW
By: Kelly Young. Millions of families are being exposed to the possibility of mixing and matching their child’s learning experiences by combining both local and globally accessible opportunities.
We Built Boring Schools, Then We Put Them Online–Science Has the Fix
Now is the perfect time to explore important factors that go into building better learner experiences and schools.
Human Work: Learn Stuff Computers Can’t Do
Learning design should be centered around the broader aims of what students can achieve and how they can solve the biggest problems facing society.
Harmonizing with Microcredentials: 7 Steps to Reimagining Your School’s Professional Learning
In this final piece of the series, we summarize how Harmony Public Schools reinvented professional learning for their staff by putting the educator at the center and building a career pathways program awarding relevant and realistic microcredentials to in-service teachers and administrators.
Change Management at Harmony Public Schools: When Prior Innovations Become Status Quo
By: Burak Yilmaz. Through the development of a competency-based microcredential system, Harmony Public Schools has become a place where all educators with a growth mindset can thrive.