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Closing the Motivation Gap
The fact that the best professors in the world are making their courses freely available is an important milestone in learning opportunity, but MOOCs are largely serving the college educated seeking additional education.
Seaford Leaders Build “Pipeline of Success” For Students
Just like leaders in so many school districts with similar stories across the nation, Seaford educators knew things needed to change. They knew it was time to transform the system to better meet the needs of their changing demographic, while still maintaining a high expectation of academic rigor and student success.
Alumni Engagement | Tackling Attrition
Ultimately, however, Alumni engagement is a two-way street. “Getting the job done” is important, but unless the Alumni know me, trust me, and believe that attending is worth their time, no amount of Facebook posting will make them show up. In the words of my mentor, “Movement-building is relationship-building.”
Consortium Points the Way on Proficiency-Based Learning
"David is a great resource for our region," said Nick Donohoe of the Nellie Mae Education Foundation, NESSC's primary benefactor. "He has a forward-thinking view of where learning needs to go, related to policies and assessment in particular," and he's particularly good at "summarizing 'edu-ese' for state legislators and local school leaders."
10 Elements of Next-Generation K-12 Systems
Next generation systems--across a state or region--will share ten elements: goals, standards, a focus on personalized learning, assessments, talent development, authorizing, data systems, accountability, funding, connections, and supports.
Pearson Partnerships for Principal Development
Michael Fullan's most recent work is also soon to be released in partnership with Pearson as a series of 6 sequential online modules for superintendents and school leaders, and is centered on Fullan'sMotion Leadership™ concept and practices for guiding system-wide change.
A Maker Makeover for Public Education
MakerSpace team members are "die hard advocates of public education" and are completely immersed in a revolution from within. The MakerSpace ideas started flowing about four years ago when six 10th grade teachers were awarded an ARRA grant to create an integrated project-based block for 100 students.
Optimizing Personalized, Blended, Competency-based Schools
Wouldn’t teachers start to have those “what if” moments at lunch or walking in from the parking lot about how they could combine different elements of the different strands of innovation. Wouldn’t students start to bring ideas between classrooms about how their project-based learning could really benefit from having access to some of the resources on-line or how they might be able to create more deeper learning projects if once a week there was a three-hour open period to work on projects so they could get o they could get 4′s not just 3′s for “grades”?
Next-Gen Schools Thriving in Detroit
Getting Smart isn’t new to sharing good news from Detroit, but recently, as part of a joint trip with Next Generation Learning Challenges (NGLC) and CEE-Trust, a couple members of our team were lucky enough to return to the city.
Education 3.0: Helping All Children Reach their Potential
The alternative is to make achievement the constant, and allow each student the time she or he needs to learn. As described in the new book, Reinventing Schools: It’s Time to Break the Mold, this one change requires six massive changes throughout all aspects of an educational system.