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Your Planning Process Signals What’s Important
Having worked with hundreds of impact organizations, we have found that how you plan may be as important as what you decide.
How Achievement First is Creating an Interoperable Ecosystem
Achievement First schools are staffed with operations, logistics and technology teams that enable teaching and learning staff to focus on curriculum development, student outcomes and professional learning. Learn more about their impressive approach here.
An Integrated Approach to Academic and Social Supports
In our latest publication, Tom Vander Ark and Mary Ryerse make the case for college readiness, relay the story of the academic and social-support-driven AVID program, and illustrate how partnerships can enhance college, career and life readiness initiatives.
Initiative Aims to Catalyze the Personalized Learning Field
New Profit, a non-profit venture philanthropy organization, recently announced the launch of a Personalized Learning Initiative supported by Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Read more here.
6 Best Practices For Expanding A Blended Learning Initiative
By: Andy Franko. For any districts considering a move toward blended learning, here are six lessons our district learned while creating a multidistrict virtual K-12 school.
6 Phases of Professional, Place-Based Learning
By Nate McClennen - The transition to place-based education takes learning on the part of teachers, and thoughtful implementation on the part of leaders. Here are the six steps we use to make sure it's successful.
Increase Social Awareness and Build Culture: Action Steps from 4 Schools
Increasing social awareness is an integral component of teaching SEL, because it is a prerequisite for building strong relationships and social skills. Here, I discuss four strategies for increasing organizational social awareness.
Curriculum Associates: Blended Success Story
Curriculum Associates may be the most important EdTech success story you don’t know about. Learn more about its backstory, how it grew into a blended learning giant and recently donated most of it's stock to a university
Why Global Should Be the Education Movement of 2017
By: Bonnie Lathram and Dave Potter. As we close the year out, we are pondering where we are headed in the field of education in 2017. We challenge you to become a globally connected educator and join us in creating a Smart Planet in the new year.
System Connectors and Shapers in Education Transformations
By: Rosie Clayton. With questions around the design and function of intermediaries and system catalysts in U.S. educational change, I met up with five organizations which play both distinctive and overlapping roles within the system to learn more.