Challenges, Opportunities and Actions
Artificial Intelligence creates great challenges and opportunities for powerful, equitable learning experiences. Here are a few ways you can get started.
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New Pathways
How Teacher Beliefs Transform Student Outcomes: The Impact of Collective Educator Agency
At AVID, we’ve learned that when educators believe in their ability to act and that their action will bring about the desired outcome, they become even more efficient and effective. With collective educator agency, educators take intentional actions grounded in the belief that together, they can support all students in being academically successful.
Challenges and Recommendations
The good news is that solutions already exist in the ecosystem and they just need to be combined and scaled... the bad news is that this is complex work.
Competency-Based Education
Framing and Designing the HOW
Rebecca Midles carves the designing path to change for a learning organization.
Learning Design
The 5 Steps of Design Thinking Help Drive School Improvements
How can educators ensure a commitment to continuous improvement? Long-time educator and former engineer, Ben Owens, explores one of the most powerful tools: design thinking.
Leadership
What Does Your Ideal Learning Environment Look Like?
The Texas Learning Exchange offers tips and guidance for identifying the best learning solutions for your vision.
Future of Learning
Solution Design: Mindsets, Practices and Systems
Adam Kulaas kicks off the first in a series of blogs that will explore the pitfalls and celebrations associated with designing large and small scale solutions. With emphasis on starting with self assessment and reflection, join him as he delivers a map to designing the future of learning.
Post-Secondary
Creating Change-Agents: The Intersection of Critical Thinking and Student Agency
By: Jenny Pieratt. As educators, we know that in order to develop the next generation with the skills to innovate and improve our world we can no longer teach students what to think. We must teach them how to think.
Marketing & Communication
10 Tips for Designing High Impact Campaigns
Are you ready to make an impact? Whether it is an idea that you want to explore further, a topic you want to share with the world or a question you want to ask, designing campaigns can be a critical component to growing your impact.
Personalized Learning
Starting With the “Why” in Personalized Learning
By: Betheny Gross. Without a solid end goal in mind, it’s nearly impossible to build a coherent personalized learning approach. Here, I look at how schools can unify teachers around new personalized learning initiatives.