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10 Ways to Scale Nonprofit Impact
This updated blog from December discusses the challenge of bringing a nonprofit to scale, and provides 10 tips on how to expand impact based on two decades of work with over 400 nonprofits.
What’s Next? Personalized, Project-Based Learning
There are several challenges faced when trying to execute project-based learning well. Here are 10 next-gen schools blending the best of personalized learning and project-based learning to address these challenges.
Five Things for Big Districts to Think About
After speaking with district leaders, here are five thoughts on how big districts can move forward toward personalized, competency-based education.
Transforming Schools Through Strengths-Based PD
By: Laura McBain. What would professional development look like for teachers if we focused on our greatest strengths as opposed to our greatest deficits? Here's an example of changing the mindset and practices of one school by doing just that.
6 Ways to Design a PD Session that Tackles Big School Challenge
By: Margaret Powers. A teacher shares more on how to plan a teacher PD workshop to help educators create their own schoolwide innovation cultures during the 2016 SXSWedu Ready Go! Summit.
5 Best Practices to Globalize Your School
By: David Young. If global learning opportunities are core to being college- and career-ready, why are they not offered widely in K-12 classrooms? How do we provide global learning to more K-12 classrooms to equitably prepare all students? Here are five real examples to follow.
Two Foundations for Sustaining Equitable Education Strategies
By: Mark Otter. Everyone deserves access to a high-quality education, but ensuring inclusive, equitable access for all students requires a strategic approach.
6 Entry Points for Deeper Learning
“Transformation comes more from pursuing profound questions than seeking practical answers.” -Peter Block, The Answer to How is Yes: Acting on What Matters As educators and EdLeaders, we seek to illuminate entry points to deeper learning, while knowing that the real work is, as…
Promising Practices in Deeper Learning and Equity
There are initiatives in the United States to reduce achievement gaps and increase access to high quality education for all students. At this year’s Deeper Learning conference, conversations --and the real work--are about equity.
Two Strategies for Empowering Teacher Leaders
In a coherent system, everything works together for students and teachers: content, learning experiences, assessment, professional development, schedule, structure, staffing and supports. Here are two ways to create this coherence and empower teacher leaders.