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How to Empower Students Through Service and Student-Centered Learning
By: Stacey Adamczyk. High school students deserve a safe learning setting, computer-based curriculum, service learning, and life experience opportunities. They deserve a hands-on, real-world approach to learning, and a foundational relationship built on trust with caring adults.
Design Thinking in Action
By Michael Niehoff: Design thinking helps create future innovators and breakthrough thinkers. Michael shares a few examples of what it can look like at the high school and elementary level.
Blended Learning in New Orleans
Take a virtual field trip with us, as we dive into what school looks like in New Orleans, 10 years after Hurricane Katrina.
66 Middle and High Schools Worth Visiting
School visits are a great way to learn and are key to developing an innovation mindset. Based on a couple thousand school visits and with help from colleagues and readers, we’ve compiled a list of 66 U.S. secondary schools worth visits.
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.
65 Elementary & Middle Schools Worth Visiting
School visits are a great way to learn and are key to developing an innovation mindset. Based on a couple thousand school visits and with help from colleagues and readers, we’ve compiled a list of 66 U.S. Elementary schools worth visiting.
Innovative Primary School Puts Down Roots in Denver
New and innovative primary school in Denver reimagines what the learning environment should look like for students. Check out, Roots Elementary.
Education Innovation: In US & Across the Globe
Innovations in learning are transforming education for children around the world, both in formal and informal learning environments.
Grant-Beacon Middle School Builds Character, Extends and Blends Learning
By: Tom Vander Ark. Four years ago Principal Alex Magaña describes a clear mission: high achievement and growth for all students, providing a college preparatory program of study that sets high expectations and requires critical thinking and problem solving skills. Today, you see three core strategies are helping them achieve that goal: blended learning, extended learning opportunities, and charter development.
4 Strategies to Create Tomorrow’s Classroom
With SAS Curriculum Pathways, educators can create compelling problem-based learning scenarios and strategically target instruction using formative assessment data to provide additional insight into the strengths and weaknesses of individual students.