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The Power of a Network: Living Bridges Driving Purpose
By: Corey Mohn. What can solve that age-old challenge in education known as "senioritis?" What can increase engagement while better preparing students not just for college, or even career, but for life? This district had a wild idea, and it worked.
7 Ways to Become A More Connected Educator Today
Guest author Rachelle Dene Poth shares seven ways educators can get connected today and in the future to build a learning network.
How Schools Develop Student Agency
Given the rate of change in the world, helping young people take charge of their own learning is more important than ever. Here, I look at two EdLeaders' thoughts on how schools can help develop this mindset in students.
Structures Drive Behavior: Right is Magic, Wrong is Deadly
Most of us work and learn in networks, and the first role of a leader is getting the system's conditions, connections and culture right. Here are 10 lessons on effective network structures and examples of each in education.
Getting Smart Podcast | How Networks Make The World Better
In this episode of the podcast, Curtis Ogden, Senior Associate at the Interaction Institute for Social Change, discusses how networks are part of the education solution.
Why I’m Post Policy and Pro-Innovation
Personalized pathways of learning can be far more powerful than the way we have historically organized schools--we just need to invent the tools to do it well and at scale. This will be the direction of education policy in the coming decades.
Competitive, Coherent, Creative: The 21st Century School District
It’s time for district leaders to create clarity and coherence by making crystal clear how things are supposed to work. To accomplish that, it’s a good time to reexamine why school districts exist, how they work and what value they add.
New Tech Network Powers A Common Learning Model & Unique Missions
New Tech Network powers a wide range of schools, but just because they share a learning model and platform doesn't mean they're all the same--they are urban and rural, STEM-focused and arts-focused, magnet schools and dropout recovery schools. Learn more here.
Initiative Aims to Catalyze the Personalized Learning Field
New Profit, a non-profit venture philanthropy organization, recently announced the launch of a Personalized Learning Initiative supported by Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Read more here.
Plugging into the New, 21st-Century Vision of Learning
By: Paula Dillon. It’s important to promote collaboration across schools, districts, and even states in order to disseminate promising practices and strategies that can help overcome the obstacles to 21st-century learning. Here's how to start.