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Ed Policy
A Toolkit For Managing Innovation Under ESSA
By: Julia Freeland-Fisher and Thomas Arnett. This toolkit offers state leaders a set of frameworks and theories to understand how best to manage, encourage and measure innovation in K–12 education.
Leadership
Education Evolving is Making Strides
Education Evolving recently released a set of principles of student-centered learning, a statement on education equity and a new paper titled Clearing Policy Barriers to Student-Centered Learning. Learn more here.
Leadership
Smart Review | Leading Personalized and Digital Learning
"Leading Personalized and Digital Learning," brought to you by the Harvard Education Press, Mary Ann Wolf, Elizabeth Bobst and Nancy Mangum, provides "A Framework For Implementing School Change" through the lens of personalized and digital learning.
Leadership
To Reflect or Not to Reflect?
By learning how to reflect with meaning, it opened my world to increased learner empathy and decreased stress, to the renewed realization that the most beautiful part of learning is that it is not contingent upon perfection.
Project-Based Learning
3 New Resolutions After 10 Years of Teaching PBL
It's my 20th year of teaching and 10th year of implementing project-based learning (PBL) in the classroom. Here are three goals I've set for myself to refine and retool my teaching practice.
Leadership
The Value of Establishing a Culture of Thinking in the Classroom
Strategies focused on ingraining cultures of thinking have been game changers in many of today’s classrooms. In this post, we look at what that means for you and your classroom.
Leadership
True Leadership Starts with Empathy
Our team is wrapping an incredible week at INBOUND, which got us thinking about how leadership is about more than just managing people: it’s about growing people. And we all have leadership opportunities, whether or not we manage a team.
Podcasts
Getting Smart Podcast | Opt for Dignity: Teach Children to Value Themselves and Others
Timothy Shriver, nephew of John F. Kennedy and chair of the Special Olympics, discusses his part in helping define social and emotional learning and his dream of launching a dignity revolution for all.
Future of Learning
Accelerating Disruption in Schools
By: Marie Bjerede and Michael Gielniak, Ph.D. Today’s schools continue to be asked to prepare students for jobs, but the jobs have changed. It's time to accelerate the kind of disruption in schools that will change status quo and help students prepare for the future.
Future of Learning
Learning Today. Solving for Tomorrow.
How do we address the urgent need to solve for a rapidly approaching future? To prepare the 3.5 million students who, this year, will receive diplomas that are no longer a predictor of adequate preparation for college or careers?