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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.
TLA’s Real-Time Redesign Toolkit Helps Schools Make Practical and Positive Change
The Learning Accelerator (TLA) shares toolkits that provide learning strategies and guided activities for educators.
New Possibilities: The Role of Research in 4.0’s New Normal Fellowship
By: Hassan Hassan. 4.0 has resisted formal research and evaluation for the course of its history on the grounds that it is not accessible to early stage education entrepreneurs. In its latest fund, it is now developing innovative, accessible approaches to research that honor the needs of early-stage founders, especially in the era of COVID-19.
Using Design Thinking with Districts to Improve Formative Assessment Practice
By: Kate Sullivan Frades & Brinnie Ramsey. Improving formative assessment practices through design thinking can prove to be a productive challenge in school districts with well-established policies.
How Schools Improve
A colleague recently emailed me about the lack of widely used improvement frameworks in schools, so here is a quick outline of responses around approaches to improvement and innovation.
3 Questions to Innovate with Impact
By: Nathan Martin. Meaningful innovation in education comes from “responsible and intentional experimentation.” In order to make a difference, ask yourself these three questions to first determine what outcome you want to deliver to learners.
Innovation Mindset = Growth + Maker + Team Experiences
What do young people need to know and be able to do be successful? Sure reading, writing, and problem solving are important to just about every family wage job. Content knowledge gives you something to work with, but what else is important for success in life?
Innovation Ecosystems: The Role of Impact Investing
There are a lot of interesting things to say about the Baltimore venture ecosystem. The Baltimore/Washington area contains a shockingly high percentage of the most successful education businesses, including Laureate Education, American Public Education Inc., Blackboard, and 2U.
How Government Helps and Harms Entrepreneurs
Thirty years ago there were a couple dozen incubators, now there are a couple thousand; there's even an association. A dated survey suggests about one-third of business incubation programs are sponsored by economic development organizations, one fifth by cities or counties, another fifth by higher education.
The Need for Design, Planning & Implementation Support
This is not “EdReform.” We’re going through a phase change, one that is fundamentally altering the way human beings learn and develop, how they communicate their capabilities, and how the work and relate to the world.