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Supporting Statewide Change Through Microgrants to Families
By: Tom Vander Ark & Devin Vodicka. In the first of a short series, Tom Vander Ark and Devin Vodicka discuss how microgrants can allow families more agency to provide and make decisions that's best for them and their children.
A Path to Higher Education and Employment for Refugees
Dr. Chrystina Russell, the Executive Director of Global Education Movement (GEM), shares SNHU’s commitment to serving refugees with a flexible, free, applied degree pathway.
Scaling Active Learning: Professional Development Was Key to the El Paso Transformation
By: Shannon Buerk. In the fourth blog in a series on El Paso Independent School District, Shannon describes the important role that professional learning played in the district's transformation.
On Spreading Learning Innovations: Pandemic Update
Innovations in learning is one of the most important change forces for good, and developing new ways to scale quality will be as important as new approaches to learning in the future.
Empowering Youth to Address Real-World Problems
By: Matt Piercy. Using KIVA as a service-learning project in schools has the capacity to transform students’ lives while impacting the lives of others.
Difference Making: New Tech Makes it Easier than Ever
Introducing some of this new tech into high school entrepreneurship courses could teach students the importance of making a difference.
Where Can You Make the Biggest Difference?
Strengths and interests dominate our career choices, but what would happen if we added effective altruism in the mix?
3 School Innovation Insights that Challenge Common Assumptions
By: Chelsea Waite. Chelsea discusses the launch of the Christensen Institute's new Canopy project and three innovation takeaways that may challenge your assumptions.
Rethinking Scale: An Important Foundation for a Complex Challenge
Erik discusses several points of literature on rethinking scaling and four action items for school administrators to take.
10 Innovations that Support Students’ Community Contributions
How many of us recall our elementary and secondary education experiences truly mattering outside the four walls of our schools? Surely our parents, relatives or neighbors saw some value in what we studied, but few if any programs focused on supporting students in community outreach and impact. Thankfully, that’s changing.