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5 Ways to Unleash Education Innovation
I spent Thursday at the Harvard Graduate School of Education discussing the learning experiences and environments most likely to support development of high quality work products and real college and career readiness.
Differentiated Instruction
Lisa Nielsen offers an alternative to differentiated instruction: great idea, hard to practice–at least the way most schools and classrooms are organized.
Design Thinking for Human Resources
Design thinking can be used for the complicated process of recruiting and developing teachers and more broadly school staffs. Listed at 20 dimensions of an effective education human resource system.
Politics and Pundits
Politicians, reformers, entrepreneurs and pundits gathered at the ASU Education Innovation Summit. See the roundup and highlights of the panels and presentations that took place.
Social media guidelines
Steve McKee blogs about marketing and business growth on Bloomberg BusinessWeek. He recently posted his guidelines for dealing with marketing on social media platforms. Education innovators sart-ups would be wise to take a look at Steve’s list. Below is an excerpt of his blog post on keeping marketing meaningful on…
Good Work: Urgency
It is interesting to see the dynamic shift social media has caused and how it is changing the world. It has toppled dictators and institutions that we never thought could change and now is a new back door to education.
What School Turnaround Really Takes
Turnaround for Children supports a comprehensive effort school improvement efforts
Reading List
two dozen classic books on leading, learning, teaching, race, poverty, and calling
Lisa Nielsen: The Innovative Educator
Lisa Nielsen is a New York-based educator. Her analysis of Walter McKenzie's "A Practical Action Plan for Transforming Education" first appeared in her blog, The Innovative Educator.