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Putting Your "Beta" Foot Forward
When technology administrators or edtech coordinators make technology decisions for schools, it is important to understand the cultural impact it will have on all stakeholders. Make cultural and workflow awareness part of your "beta" tech reforms.
10 Shifts that Change Everything
The 10 shifts that change everything about learning
Supporting Learners Cradle to Career
Chad Wick, CEO, KnowledgeWorks says that we need to be developing ways to support learners in every segment of their lives, from "cradle to career."
Andrew Broy: Creating Public Options for Students
"I think the focus needs to be on high-quality school options and not merely about “choice” for the sake of choice. We need to move beyond the tired school choice debates of years past and take a more agnostic position on school organization," says Andrew Broy, President of the Illinois Network of Charter Schools. We interview him about messaging, community advocacy and choice in America's schools.
Little Innovation or Stickiness in i3 Batch
i3 scoring looks squirrelly; penalized great CMO proposals; and appears to have low stickiness quotient.
Project Foundry
Guest blogger Chad Sansing interviews Project Foundry founder Shane Krukowski.
How Disruptive Thinking Changes Education
This is the presentation Michael Horn from the Innosight Institute is giving the members of the Interoperability Forum in Washington, DC this morning. You can follow along by looking at the #intop hashtag on Twitter.
The Dropout Crisis
In this special feature, we interview Richard Lee Colvin, who guest edited “Fighting the Dropout Crisis” in the July-August edition of the Washington Monthly. He is a longtime journalist who heads the Hechinger Institute on Education and the Media, Teachers College, Columbia University, and is editor of The Hechinger Report. See links to this work inside.
About Schools, Tech, Poetry & Justice
LAUSD doing some of the right things to turnaround failing schools; selling edtech now; and Merwin's ode to mistakes
Another Open Letter to Commissioner Chester, Massachusetts
Michael Horn, Director of the Education division of Innosight Institute, writes and open letter to Commissioner Chester, after press reports indicate changes to virtual schools legislation in Massachusetts.