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Future of Learning
Invention Opportunity: Measuring What Matters
By: Devin Vodicka. It's time for an invention opportunity around assessments - create new policies, practices, and tools that encourage the development of purposeful goals tied to whole-child and competency-based learning progressions.
Leadership
Deanna Mulligan on Leadership and the Opportunity Gap
Today on the Getting Smart Podcast we’re talking with Deanna Mulligan on leadership and the opportunity gap. Deanna Mulligan grew up in a small town in Nebraska, earned an MBA from Stanford and, after 8 years at McKinsey, launched a career in insurance where, after a two-year sabbatical, she…
Future of Learning
Teaching Through Change, Stories of Resilience: Austin ISD
By: Rashawn Caruthers. Rashawn shares how Stacey Shapiro of AISD and a member of The Learning Accelerator’s Strategy Lab cohort, is planning for resilient and equitable futures for her students.
Difference Making
Difference Making: What Needs to Be At the Heart of Learning
Difference Making at the Heart of Learning, the new book by Tom Vander Ark and Emily Liebtag is out now!
Leadership
Amy Klement on Equity and Imaginable Futures
On this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast, Tom is speaking with Amy Klement, Managing Partner of Imaginable Futures on equity and change.
Competency-Based Education
Change Management at Harmony Public Schools: When Prior Innovations Become Status Quo
By: Burak Yilmaz. Through the development of a competency-based microcredential system, Harmony Public Schools has become a place where all educators with a growth mindset can thrive.
Competency-Based Education
Finding Your Entry Point to Mastery Learning
Chris shares two questions and two resources to help find your entry point to mastery learning.
Leadership
Joanne McEachen on Contributive Learning
Joanne McEachen is joining the podcast this week to have a conversation with Tom about her newest book, The Depthvale Detectives, and the Great Education Crisis.
Leadership
New Film Addresses Mental Health By Challenging Us To ‘Listen’ To Our Youth Voice
Michael discusses a new groundbreaking film being screened by local schools and community groups. It is intended to provoke a critical conversation and make it easier to talk about mental health.
Leadership
A Pivot Within A Pivot: Getting InspirED With Educators to Define and (re)Define Success
By: Jeanine Collins. Jeanine shares how the InspirED Global Fellows pivoted to a virtual program due to the pandemic but they remain focused on prioritizing 21st-century learning.