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5 Ways New Tools & Schools are Transforming Special Education
Developing school models that blend the best of online and face-to-face learning holds real promise for better meeting special needs. There are 5 reasons I’m excited about this topic.
16 Next-Gen Schools to follow: NGLC Announces New Planning and Launch Grant Recipients
NGLC supports schools and visionaries by providing funding through these two phases of grants -- planning and launch.
Creating Innovative Ecosystems
By: Alex Hernandez. When it comes to education innovation, all cities are not created equal.
Smart Cities: New Orleans
Events like Mini Maker Faire prove that the future of school in New Orleans is a community effort - an effort by an entire city to invest in creativity, entrepreneurship, job creation in entire new industries, and the future of an entire city
The Need for Design, Planning & Implementation Support
This is not “EdReform.” We’re going through a phase change, one that is fundamentally altering the way human beings learn and develop, how they communicate their capabilities, and how the work and relate to the world.
Developing Life-long Leaders in the Elementary Grades
The NGLC Launch Grant has positioned Ingenuity Prep in the right position to grow and scale success. It seems rare to see new schools starting with preschoolers with the intention to bring them through their entire PreK-12 career. It may be rare, but it feels very logical.
Personalized Learning Demands Lean, Blended, Interative Approach
Blended classrooms can provide a boost to a group of students, but blended schools create a new world of opportunity for how a team of teachers interact with hundreds of students and how students experience learning.
The Do-It-Yourself Movement Goes to School
By: Patricia Gomes. Every movement to innovate in education has a honeymoon phase, when everyone wants to do it. That is exactly where the Maker Movement is. Everyone wants to set up a fab lab, but this could also fade away two years from now if we don’t produce results. That’s why my focus as a researcher is to show the results of this.
Designing Your School of Choice: mySchool
If I did a school-of-choice Kickstarter, it would go something like this: I would combine two of my favorite brick-and-mortar school models and bring in some high-powered adaptive learning machines and virtual options to develop my school, or mySchool. Let’s take a look . . . .
Altus Institute: An Innovative SoCal Alternative
Altus charters have all be unanimously renewed. Students are taught by specially trained teachers in a safe, comfortable, and welcoming learning environment. Projects, advanced technology; professional, vocational and military pathways options, and tutorial support and work experience programs allow Altus teachers to maximize student engagement.