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Personalized Learning
12 Reasons Every District Should Open a Flex School
Using a flex model, every community can afford to have a great high school. Every community should have a flex option that provides a fully supported individualized pathways to graduation. Every community should use a flex model to leverage local resources and meet specific needs. Every district should open a flex model so that everyone can visit and experience the future of education.
Personalized Learning
Former Lumberyard Transformed to Blended Learning School
At Intrinsic Charter School's new Chicago campus, spaces for blended learning didn’t have to get retrofitted into a traditional school. A former lumberyard, was a much better starting point for a permanent school designed specifically for blended learning.
Leadership
Teachers Taking Next-Gen Learning to Scale
The path to next generation learning for every student is bottom up, top down and sideways in. With teachers and leaders sharing a vision, putting it on a timetable, and building a supported path that allows everyone to be part of the vision.
Leadership
Acton Academy: An Invitation to a Hero’s Journey
Acton Academy is small private K-9 school in Austin. The core promise is that each student will “Begin a Hero's Journey.” Located in Austin, Texas, students learn that courage, grit, and perseverance matter far more than regurgitation.
Personalized Learning
Blended Learning Demands Big Open Spaces
My neighborhood high school is a 50-year-old spider web of additions crammed on to a downtown lot it shares with the district kitchen and stadium. It has little street appeal, no connection with the natural world, and is an energy hog. Like many high schools, the primary architectural features include rows of classrooms off narrow hallways, a cafeteria, and a main office.
Leadership
Magnolia Montessori Begins to Bloom
Magnolia Montessori in Austin, TX proves it’s not the building that makes a school great, its the culture.
Personalized Learning
Building Relationships and Expanding Expectations at Brooklyn Lab
In a recent trip to Brooklyn, I was lucky enough to visit the recently opened Brooklyn Lab Charter School. Home to 132 6th graders and a dedicated and inspired staff, LAB models several unique solutions for a next gen learning environment.
Personalized Learning
30 Attributes of Next Gen Learning
The learning opportunity set improves every month with new tools powering new experiences and environments. By 2020 I'm confident the learning landscape will dramatically improve. Here are 10 successes, 10 LX attributes and 10 system attributes that will make up next gen learning.
Personalized Learning
New in Texas Edu in 2014
Here's a look into what is new in Texas education this year.
Personalized Learning
How Next Gen Learning Boosts Rigor, Relevance & Relationships
There's no doubt that next gen learning boosts rigor, relevance and relationships. Here's more on how innovations in learning are creating more of a good thing and supporting great learning environments for students and teachers.