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Social and Emotional Learning and Assessment: The Demand is Clear
By: Jonathan Martin. Noncognitive skill assessment is a necessary, even critical component, of strengthening social and emotional learning in schools.
On Equity in Education. Both Kinds.
By: Matt Candler. For too long, we’ve focused on the fairness and justice part of equity in education, but too rarely have we also been concerned with sharing its ownership. Let's do both.
The Role of Performance Monitoring in Competency-Based Education
By: Jason Ellingson. Competency-based learning may resolve some of the concerns with current approaches to performance monitoring being publicly displayed.
Why and How Personalized Learning is Transforming Texas Education
Texas schools are shifting rapidly from print to digital content, and these blended environments are enabling a new level of personalized learning in the state's schools.
Navigating Scholarships and Creating Your Own Pathway to College
By: Nara Lee. The average amount of national student debt hovers around $30,000 for college graduates. However it is actually possible to graduate college with little to no debt--here is how to navigate scholarships while creating your own pathway.
Three Paradoxes Confronting the Global Educator
By: Valerie Hannon. Many educators see the promise of personalizing education, however here are three paradoxes that can result when seeking to personalize learning in this era of globalization.
Motivating and Monitoring Performance: 6 Recommendations
We began this blog series asking the question: "to leaderboard or not?" After reviewing the subject of performance monitoring in private and public, in formal and informal settings, and for individuals and teams, and we've drawn these six conclusions.
Learner-Centered Leadership Means Teachers and Students Lead, Too
Harmony Public School leaders don’t just create opportunities for their teachers to lead. They create opportunities for their students to lead as well.
Managing Collaboration in the PBL Classroom
By: Jennifer Isbell. As they prepare next-gen students for an unknown future full of rapidly advancing technology, teachers must find ways to inspire and instill the collaborative process to help them succeed in a world that values teamwork abilities.
Ask Not What Blended Learning Measurement Can Do For You…
By: Saro Mohammed. The "Blended Learning Measurement Agenda: A Path Forward For the Ecosystem" guide explores the growing need for a coordinated measurement agenda, and highlights the current conditions and unique challenges we face in measuring blended learning.