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Does Your Curriculum Have a Growth Mindset?
By: Susan Santone. Cultural relevance and social action can help kids shift the narrative of their lives and futures, encouraging their optimism, agency and collaboration--all elements of the growth mindsets needed for academic and SEL development.
Blended Learning Strategy: Small Groups and Stations
A recent school tour of three Bay Area schools with some blended learning experts helped provide answers to some of the common questions we hear about how to implement blended learning.
The Future of Professional Development is Collaborative Development
By: Brad Spirrison. To support today's participatory professional development, edleaders have developed online platforms that focus on educator collaboration and resource discovery to help teachers incorporate new tools and ideas into instruction.
The Future of Professional Learning: 4 Design Principles that Transform
The future of professional learning in education is bright when focused on these four design principles that emphasize rich experiences, and that foster the transformation of professionals, schools and students.
Why PD Matters So Much for PBL Teachers
Teachers need to have on-going experiences and support with project-based learning (PBL) themselves in order to make all of the elements work in tandem and successfully implement it in the classroom.
Personalizing Post High School Readiness
By: Jennifer Ghidiu. The question of how to best set up our students for success in life is not a question of getting them access to college. The most important question is what individual pathway is best for each student.
Preparing Teachers for 21st-Century Learning
By: Bill Taylor. How are teachers being developed to use educational technology in a way that best supports a student’s ability to learn?
5 Power PBL Examples: Makers, Muppets and More!
It’s a project-based world. Personalized project-based learning transforms students. Here are five examples of student projects that are transforming student learning.
What’s Next? Personalized, Project-Based Learning
There are several challenges faced when trying to execute project-based learning well. Here are 10 next-gen schools blending the best of personalized learning and project-based learning to address these challenges.
How Can You Truly Meet Students Where They Are?
By: Karla Phillips. Meeting students where they are in education may mean redesigning schools away from an age-based grade level system into a competency-based one.