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A New Normal Summit

The New Schools Venture Fund Summit took place this week in San Francisco and had more tech, more digital learning, more focus on productivity and more people. Yet, there are still a few things that I would like to see before the next summit.

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5 Ways to Unleash Education Innovation

I spent Thursday at the Harvard Graduate School of Education discussing the learning experiences and environments most likely to support development of high quality work products and real college and career readiness.

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Differentiated Instruction

Lisa Nielsen offers an alternative to differentiated instruction: great idea, hard to practice–at least the way most schools and classrooms are organized.

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Online Learning in Danger in WA

The Internet Academy was a leader in the online learning revolution in WA and now online learning may be in danger for all students due to major budget cuts.

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The Importance of Value Added

The combination of digital learning and performance based reviews could make it much easier to measure student progress and transform todays education system.

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Design Thinking for Human Resources

Design thinking can be used for the complicated process of recruiting and developing teachers and more broadly school staffs. Listed at 20 dimensions of an effective education human resource system.

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Politics and Pundits

Politicians, reformers, entrepreneurs and pundits gathered at the ASU Education Innovation Summit. See the roundup and highlights of the panels and presentations that took place.

EdTech

Social media guidelines

Steve McKee blogs about marketing and business growth on Bloomberg BusinessWeek.  He recently posted his guidelines for dealing with marketing on social media platforms.  Education innovators sart-ups would be wise to take a look at Steve’s list.  Below is an excerpt of his blog post on keeping marketing meaningful on…

Leadership

Good Work: Urgency

It is interesting to see the dynamic shift social media has caused and how it is changing the world. It has toppled dictators and institutions that we never thought could change and now is a new back door to education.