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Charter Schools Turn 24, What’s Next?
Tom reviews 10 trends and developments of charter schools over the past two dozen years.
Edmodo: A Platform Redefining Learning
Edmodo is quietly, consistently positioning itself not just as the glue to hold your technology-enhanced learning initiatives together, but the rocket fuel that it will need to redefine what learning looks like now and in the future.
Edgenuity Provides Rich Student, Teacher Experience
Edgenuity is a robust content platform that offers full credit-bearing courses based on state standards and has already developed custom courses in 30 different states to align to specific state standards.
10 Things Your Professional Learning Partners Should Want to Tell You
Why your professional learning partners should model the posture of experimentation by both encouraging and supporting the desire to try new things, asking difficult questions, and pushing boundaries.
The Case for Boundary Breaking Education
It’s the boundary spaces between sciences, countries, systems and people where conflict, innovation and education frequently happen.
Preparing Leaders for Deeper Learning
A Getting Smart paper released jointly with Digital Promise that advocates for programs that prepare and develop school and district leaders who will create and sustain deeper learning environments in schools.
Gooru Powers Personalized Learning With Open Content
A look inside the Gooru personalized learning platform. With over 100,000 collections of open content and an active community of teacher contributors, Gooru is focusing on making the highest-quality materials discoverable and dynamic.
The Micro-School Opportunity
New learning tools and strategies have created the opportunity to quickly open "micro-schools" as a school-within-a-school or as low cost private schools. Varying in size, cost, philosophies, and operating models, they share a focus in personalization.
Getting Smart Podcast | Jeff Petty, Puget Sound Consortium for School Innovation
For episode two of the Getting Smart Podcast, Bonnie talks Deeper Learning and education leadership prep with Jeff Petty, Founder & Director of the Puget Sound Consortium for School Innovation, a Big Picture Learning initiative.
Why Mentors Matter
By: Sarah Vander Schaaff. As part of our Smart Parents series, Sarah writes about the impact a valuable mentor had on her life, and why mentors matter. As a parent, Sarah also acknowledges why this sometimes raises concerns for parents and discusses the real value mentors bring.