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Personalized Learning
OpenEd: Changing the Way the World Learns
A New York Times article last week suggested that big ideas are dead. At Open Education Solutions, we don’t think so—we want to change the way the world learns. We see evidence of new approaches to learning that work better. Following are four examples of how we’re helping to deploy new strategies, structures, and technologies.
Leadership
Good Work: Night Climbing
Leadership is…establishing where a group of people should go, getting them lined up in that direction and committed to movement, and then energizing them to overcome the inevitable obstacles that they will encounter along the way.
Personalized Learning
No More Big Ideas? 10 Edupreneurs Suggest Otherwise
Neil Gabler suggested in last Sunday’s NYTimes that there are no more big ideas. This week I talked to/about 10 edupreneurs with big dreams that suggest otherwise.
EdTech
Jobs for the Future Outlines Policy for Early Graduation Incentives
Jobs for the Future (JFF) released the policy brief "Incentives for Early Graduation: How can state policies encourage students to complete high school in less than four years?" by Diane Ward and Joel Vargas this August. The brief discusses ways that policymakers can leverage savings by allowing more students to complete high school faster.
Personalized Learning
Bring Your Own What, and Why?
This article was originally published by Bruce Dixon on the AALF.org Blog. At several recent conferences at which I have been speaking, there has been a lot of interest in the concept of students bringing their own computers, laptops, technology or devices…depending on how you like…
Leadership
Good Work: Sentiments of Consideration
Leadership requires empathy at scale and a broad perspective. Certainty is great for execution but the politics of public education are personal and that perspective-building dilog.
Personalized Learning
The Art of Balancing Execution & Innovation
Every school needs an execution agenda to improve the quality of instruction around an adopted curriculum. Every school needs an innovation agenda. Finding the right balance is the art of leadership and the product of dialog.
Leadership
Good Work: Trustees For A Slice of America
My home town hides its poverty all too well. But a group of committed leader take ownership, and act like trustees.
EdTech
Alan Blankstein Addresses 200 Public Education Thought Leaders
Author Alan Blankstein addressed more than 200 public education thought leaders in New York at the annual Leadership Conference of the Center for Educational Innovation (CEI) and the Public Education Association (PEA) today about high-debate issues surrounding public, private and charter schools.
Personalized Learning
Promoting Quality Online Learning
Fordham is launching a series of working papers on digital learning. Rick Hess makes an important contribution with the first paper focused on quality