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Project-Based Learning Made Easy
With summer in full bloom, there’s no better time to learn how you can begin incorporating project based learning into your classroom, or to refine your PBL practice for your students.
The Future of Learning: Compelling, Customized, Connected & Competency-Based
There is an emerging opportunity to boost student achievement and improve working for teachers here in the U.S--and a huge opportunity to expand access to quality learning to every young person on earth.
10 Entry Points For Next-Gen Learning
The Broad Residency prepares talented professionals for important leadership roles in urban districts. One of them asked me to outline entry points for next-gen learning.
A District Guide to Online Learning
Online learning can expand student (and staff) options, grow enrollment, and power blended learning. It shares many critical success factors with traditional education, but different enough that you need to do your homework and develop a good plan. Following is a 10 point district/network guide to online learning.
The Job Good Schools Fulfill
The job of a good school is creating the partnership between teens and adults that scaffolds this experience and recognizes the multiple ways that adolescents master these skills. While the ultimate recognition is the diploma -- “the ticket” to the next step -- students can only excel when they are sure of their skills and confident in the person they bring forward.
Two Studies: Data, Implications, and Potential
A recent study by the Center for Reinventing Public Education (CRPE) at the University of Washington, found that a several financial realities can have impacts on implementation.The study, which took place over the course of two years, focused on resource allocation, management of new technology costs, and financial sustainability
Career Education: Even College Grads Should be Employable
Parents with boomerang kids in the basement have learned that even college graduates should possess skills and dispositions that make them employable. Young people need access to postsecondary learning and work experiences that will help them develop the knowledge, skills and dispositions for employability.
Leadership for Education Innovation
By: Michele Cahill. At the heart of an ecosystem for learning is an ability to draw upon the assets of an entire city or community to support students as they grapple with the two primary tasks of adolescence: building competencies and forming their identities.
Preparing Teachers for Deeper Learning
One of the most exciting ideas presented in the paper is what we truly believe to be the future of teacher preparation and ongoing development--micro-credentials, likely displayed as digital badges--that would signify accomplishment and measure and reward competency-based outcomes for educators.
Preparing Teachers For Deeper Learning
A Getting Smart white paper that outlines the attributes of next-generation teacher preparation with recommendations to support the development of teacher preparation and development systems.