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Getting Smart Podcast | America’s Edu Power Couple On Balancing Innovation and Execution
Erin Mote and Eric Tucker, co-founders of Brooklyn Lab Charter School, discuss building a durable school that is also future-ready, as well as a customized learning platform from scratch.
Getting Smart on Social Media 2.0
Social media is a great way to build community and communicate. In our latest Smart Bundle, we look at strategies for educators and EdLeaders looking to make the most of their social media efforts.
Getting Smart Podcast | Barry Schuler on the Power of Networks
Barry Schuler, entrepreneur and partner at the DFJ Growth Fund, chats more with Tom Vander Ark about his part in the creation of the internet, the future of smart machines and the power of networks.
ConnectEd Takes Linked Learning National
ConnectEd team members discuss working to scale the Linked Learning program nationally to ensure all students have access to high-quality college and career pathways, preparing them for success in college, career, community, and life.
The Platform Revolution That Will Power Personalized Learning
While still in the early stages of development, platform networks will bring network effects to K-12 education, making it easier for educators to create powerful personalized learning.
Getting Smart Podcast | Backstabber to Lovetrain: Don Shalvey on District-Charter Relations
This episode of the podcast features Don Shalvey, Deputy Director of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, discussing school networks, district-charter relations and the 70s songs that best describe them.
Scaling Personalized Learning: Alex Hernandez on Creating a Shared Vision
Alex Hernandez of Charter School Growth Fund shares lessons learned from charter networks. To scale personalized learning schools must define what excellence looks like—a shared vision for powerful learning experiences—and build an organization completely in service of that vision.
Network Effects in Education
Networks of aligned people are powerful, always have been, but now that they’re all connected they operate a lot more like a live organism than a hierarchy.
10 Questions Worth Asking to Help Every Student Succeed
Tom shares three trends and 10 questions to ask that were discussed at the Education Writers Association meeting.
Integrated Curriculum: Why it Matters, and Where to Find It
Why do 95% of high schools retain discipline-based structure and staffing decades after the cost has been shown to significantly outweigh the benefit? Here, I look at a number of schools that provide good examples of ways to break the mold.