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4 Strategies For Scaling A Successful Program
Run a good school or program? Thinking about how to increase your impact? Replicating the program is just one of a dozen strategies for extending impact.
Bringing Data to the School Enrollment Game
By: Steven Hodas. How data should be used in the decision process of schools to better support families and the solutions such as an API to help students and parents make important decisions.
EdTech Implementation Without Supports Cannot Stand
By: Rob Dickson. Successful implementation must include a vision, support from stakeholders and a core focus that is aligned to a strategic plan with the ultimate goal of impacting student success.
Preparing Principals: Best Practices and Next Steps
In the third of three posts on principal preparation and development Tom shares Best practices, next steps and recommendations to preparing principals to boost the achievement of American students.
Planning for Long Term Success through Sustainability and Scalability
For the Horry County School District (HCS) sustainability is key to each and every decision made. Check out how only a couple years into their personalized, digital learning initiative, they are reaching financial sustainability to secure long term success.
Seeing What is Possible Makes Possibilities Exciting
An interview of former Napa Valley Unified School District Administrator, Dr. Laura Ryan, on why her school district chose Scholastic's READ 180/System 44 to help their struggling readers achieve.
Collective Impact – Creating a Self-Sharpening Education System
By: George Tang. Over the last several years, collective impact has become common education vernacular and has generated as much buzz as Kimye. Ok, maybe not that much, but collective impact has become a household term for communities seeking to ensure children are effectively supported and seamlessly connected from early childhood to K-12 education to higher education to the workforce.
Step #1 in District-wide Blended Learning Implementation: Assess Stakeholder Readiness
Measuring initial attitudes will allow you to lean into your strengths and shore up your vulnerabilities. Knowing how different stakeholder groups feel (teachers vs. principals vs. parents vs. students, for example) will help you identify your natural allies and the issues you must address to bring others along.
The Need for Design, Planning & Implementation Support
This is not “EdReform.” We’re going through a phase change, one that is fundamentally altering the way human beings learn and develop, how they communicate their capabilities, and how the work and relate to the world.
Personalized Learning Demands Lean, Blended, Interative Approach
Blended classrooms can provide a boost to a group of students, but blended schools create a new world of opportunity for how a team of teachers interact with hundreds of students and how students experience learning.