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Personalized Learning
1,500+ Smart People Doing Innovative Work
We just wrapped the 3rd Annual Smart Lists! After looking back at the past two months of publishing about 20 ‘Best of’ lists, we wanted to share a final list of every category we featured this year.
Ed Policy
How New Schools, Tools and Policies Will Bring an End to the Big Test
We are beginning to see the end of the current era of standards-based reform and for people that care about equity, we are wondering what’s next? So what is next? There have been eight important developments since NCLB was enacted. The most important sign of things to come is the trend towards personalized, blended, and competency-based education systems
Leadership
5 Lessons Learned in the Transition to Blended Learning
Five blended learning workshop takeaways and seven resources that support blended implementation and #raisingblendedlearners.
Ed Policy
Improving Access and Equity in Blended and Online Learning
By: Dale Frost. Blended and online learning can leverage the talent of today’s best educators with technologies that extend their reach and can personalize instruction at any time or place. Here's five policy recommendations that states can adopt to increase access and equity.
Personalized Learning
50+ Learning Leaders at #iNACOL15
Everyone at #iNACOL15 is a leader in making the shift to personalized learning a reality. But, here are more than 50 individuals that really took the event to the next level.
Leadership
The Many Ways Personalized Learning Plays out in Education
From Project based to blended and even GenDIY. There are many ways personalized learning plays out in education and there's been a shift in the way people are talking about innovation. Recognition of the potential of innovation to help close achievement gaps, boost access and better prepare students for college and career is growing.
Uncategorized
Can Great Public Education Be the New Normal?
By Lydia Dobyns: Students, educators, philanthropists and entrepreneurs will head to Washington to discuss reimagining the high school experience as part of the White House Summit on Next Generation High School. Lydia Dobyns shares her excitement, her hope, and 5 ways to support meaningful change.
Uncategorized
Multiple Pathways to Competency-Based Education?
Competency education is a paradigm shift – it is a change in the underlying assumptions. This means there has to be a way to shake off the old assumptions, which is tricky to do when all of us have grown up in the traditional education system.
Leadership
Smart Cities: What is the Secret to Pittsburgh’s Innovative Mindset?
By: Justin Aglio. The City of Pittsburgh will proudly celebrate its 200th year anniversary on March 18, 2016. In the last 200 years, Pittsburgh has continuously reinvented itself by demonstrating an innovative mindset. What is the secret to Pittsburgh’s innovative mindset?
Leadership
23 Questions that Cultivate Deeper Learning Mindsets
How can educators model deeper learning mindsets they seek to cultivate in students? Taking the time to reflect on their own learning, modeling growth mindset and lifelong learning, and genuinely involving students in problem solving, to name a few. Ponder these 23 questions in your next professional learning session and model deeper learning in your classroom, school, or organization everyday.