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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.
Three Strategies for Providing Top-down Support for Bottom-up Change
The Colorado Education Initiative partnered with Stanford University’s School Retool Fellowship to empower Colorado school and district leaders to be the agents of change for equitable deeper learning.
How to Create & Cultivate a PBL Culture
Transitioning to a more project-based pedagogy can be challenging and overwhelming, but there is one simple factor in particular that will affect your success: culture. Learn more about how to build a PBL culture here.
Transforming High Schools: 8 Strategies for EdLeaders
Transforming urban high schools is enormously challenging. In this post, Tom shares 8 effective strategies he's observed through his work and visits to hundreds of schools around the country.
Accelerating Disruption in Schools
By: Marie Bjerede and Michael Gielniak, Ph.D. Today’s schools continue to be asked to prepare students for jobs, but the jobs have changed. It's time to accelerate the kind of disruption in schools that will change status quo and help students prepare for the future.
Factory-Model Change Won’t End the Era of Factory-Model Schools
By: Andy Calkins. The only change processes we've ever used in public education to significantly alter practice and the student experience reflect industrial-age thinking and methodologies. This will no longer suffice.
Mapping Learner Experience
As students navigate their learning journey, we must deliver explicit, student-owned opportunities to set and map their course. Here's one strategy that think can be truly effective.
Preparing Today’s Students for Success Tomorrow Via Networks
By: Gregg Behr. How can we possibly prepare today’s learners to thrive in an unknown future? Remake Learning shares how its members are addressing this challenge as well as seven things they've learned on their network building journey.
20 Moonshots in Education
What big advances are possible in education in the next five or 10 years? Here are 20 moonshots, ranging from expected breakthroughs to speculative advances, that will change our lives.
3 Innovative Tips For Tackling School Culture
By: Julia Freeland Fisher. Innovation theory can help insights surface around how schools might both measure and change a culture. Here are three tips on culture, process and change inside and outside of education.