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Ed Policy
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.
Podcasts
Podcast: Katherine Prince on Navigating the Future of Learning
Today we’re listening to Tom's discussion with Katherine Prince, who leads the foresight practice at KnowledgeWorks as the Vice President of Strategic Foresight.
Future of Learning
What is 21st Century Learning? How Do We Get More?
For 40 years, we’ve been talking about the aims and strategies of 21st-century learning. Now that we’re a couple of decades in, we have a pretty good view.
Future of Learning
5 Ways to Build Collaborative Learning Skills In and Out of the Classroom
Finding ways to help students build collaboration skills in the classroom is important for preparing them for the future of work and learning. Here are five ways to open up more opportunities for students to collaborate in and out of the classroom.
SEL & Mindset
Follow Your Passion: Crazy or Genius?
Passion fuels big accomplishments, but it can also be problematic. When is following your passion actually a good career move?
Future of Learning
Future Trend: Designing Schools for How Humans Learn
Schools should not only prepare students for active participation in a networked, global economy, but also for lifelong learning. To do this, there are five critical concepts when planning instruction design for the future to consider.
Equity & Access
Rethink ED: 3 Hallmarks of the Future of Learning
Mason recaps ReThink Ed (#RethinkED), an event where innovators in education gathered together in Kansas City sponsored by the Kauffman Foundation and the Debruce Foundation.
Podcasts
Podcast: Ron Berger on Helping Students Become Leaders of their Own Learning
On this weeks episode, Tom is speaking with Ron Berger, the Chief Academic Officer at EL Education on helping students become leaders.
Ed Policy
Build Support, Innovate, Repeat: Agile Public Education in Colorado
By: Tom Vander Ark. With thoughtful sustained leadership, big school districts can earn community trust, establish and maintain rigorous academic standards, and become agile—even innovative. This is one district's story.
Competency-Based Education
Demonstrating and Assessing Mastery, and Managing Mastery Learning Data
By Scott Ellis. With learning objectives that are specific, clear and demonstrable and with mastery thresholds that are clearly defined, determining approaches for students to demonstrate mastery is a relatively straightforward two-step process.