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Ed Policy

Funding Students, Options and Achievement

Aug 17, 2015

A DLN Smart Series paper that addresses today’s broken school finance system and provides practical design principles that have been tested in policy and in practice on both the state and district level.

Personalized Learning

Learning for a Reason: 4 Levels of Engagement

Guest Author

Aug 17, 2015

ASU Professor of Education responds to Tom Vander Ark's recent blog on engagement by sharing four types of learner engagement: Procedural, Conceptual, Consequential and Critical Engagement.

Personalized Learning

What’s More Important, High Test Scores or Self-Direction?

Marie Bjerede

Aug 17, 2015

The education technology discussion is fraught with false dichotomies. One that I find particularly troubling is the false choice between improving test scores and preparing for life and work in the 21st century.

Leadership

Non-cognitive Skills: Bad Name, Really Important

Tom Vander Ark

Aug 15, 2015

Two recent reports point to the importance of so called non-cognitive skills to success in college and work. A University of Chicago literature review funded by the Lumina and Raikes foundations said, "Students must develop sets of behaviors, skills, attitudes, and strategies that are crucial to academic performance in their classes."

Personalized Learning

Getting Smart Podcast | Student-Centered Learning & Smart Parents

Getting Smart Staff

Aug 14, 2015

In this episode of the Getting Smart podcast we talk to The Nellie Mae Education Foundation’s Nicholas C. Donohue and Andrew Frishman from Big Picture Learning about Student-Centered Learning: what it is and why it is important for parents to understand and advocate for.

Personalized Learning

Are You Ready to Be a Change-Agent for Agency?

Susan Davis

Aug 14, 2015

It’s time that we let go and gave back our students’ agency to learn. It’s time that we gave up the controls, so that our students can learn how to drive their own learning lives, time that we took control of our own learning to help our kids.

Personalized Learning

The Hard Road to Soft Skills: Leaving Room for Our Children To Fall

Tracy Clark

Aug 13, 2015

If we believe adversity creates character why can’t we let our kids experience it? We let fear win when we shield our children from challenging experiences.

Personalized Learning

Elected Board Urges Innovation in Denver

Tom Vander Ark

Aug 13, 2015

Denver Public Schools (DPS) is a district worth watching because they have the best and most aggressive elected school board in the country. The board is seeking to dramatically accelerate the progress they've made by investing more in what is working and embracing innovation.

Leadership

Why Parents Should Support Student-Centered Learning

Guest Author

Aug 12, 2015

By: Nicholas C. Donohue. Personal stories, practical strategies and a framework for parents navigating the shift to student-centered learning. And, why Nellie Mae has chosen to partner with Getting Smart to tell parent stories in the new book, Smart Parents: Parenting for Powerful Learning.

Leadership

Horizontal Professional Development: Teachers Teaching Teachers to Develop 21st Century Competencies

Guest Author

Aug 11, 2015

By: Linda Hipper - Teachers teaching teachers and using professional development to prepare students with 21st century skills.

	Beginning	Piloting	Implementing
From Fixed Standards to Competency-Based Mastery	BeginningFrom Fixed Standards to Competency-Based Mastery Beginning	PilotingFrom Fixed Standards to Competency-Based Mastery Piloting	ImplementingFrom Fixed Standards to Competency-Based Mastery Implementing
From One-Size-Fits-All to Adaptive Learning	BeginningFrom One-Size-Fits-All to Adaptive Learning Beginning	PilotingFrom One-Size-Fits-All to Adaptive Learning Piloting	ImplementingFrom One-Size-Fits-All to Adaptive Learning Implementing
From Prescribed Knowledge to Innovation & Inquiry	BeginningFrom Prescribed Knowledge to Innovation & Inquiry Beginning	PilotingFrom Prescribed Knowledge to Innovation & Inquiry Piloting	ImplementingFrom Prescribed Knowledge to Innovation & Inquiry Implementing
From Subjects as Silos to Transdisciplinary, Real-World Learning	BeginningFrom Subjects as Silos to Transdisciplinary, Real-World Learning Beginning	PilotingFrom Subjects as Silos to Transdisciplinary, Real-World Learning Piloting	ImplementingFrom Subjects as Silos to Transdisciplinary, Real-World Learning Implementing
From Schools as Self-Contained to Schools as Embedded in Communities	BeginningFrom Schools as Self-Contained to Schools as Embedded in Communities Beginning	PilotingFrom Schools as Self-Contained to Schools as Embedded in Communities Piloting	ImplementingFrom Schools as Self-Contained to Schools as Embedded in Communities Implementing
From Standardized Testing to Meaningful Assessment	BeginningFrom Standardized Testing to Meaningful Assessment Beginning	PilotingFrom Standardized Testing to Meaningful Assessment Piloting	ImplementingFrom Standardized Testing to Meaningful Assessment Implementing
From Institutional Ownership of Student Data to Student-Controlled Learning Wallets	BeginningFrom Institutional Ownership of Student Data to Student-Controlled Learning Wallets Beginning	PilotingFrom Institutional Ownership of Student Data to Student-Controlled Learning Wallets Piloting	ImplementingFrom Institutional Ownership of Student Data to Student-Controlled Learning Wallets Implementing

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