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Future of Learning
Cool New Schools
The Getting Smart team explores nine cool new schools that launched this fall which build on place-based opportunities and accelerating real world learning.
Difference Making
Knowing Students Deeply is the Most Important Thing We Can Do
If we optimize the contexts for learning, we are building for our kids and their futures. Pamela Cantor explores why leading learners through a whole-child approach today, sets up a successful tomorrow.
Future of Learning
5 Steps to Boost Real World Learning in Your System
Would you like to see more real world learning in your community? Tom explores five steps to expand access to high-engagement valuable learning experiences.
Personalized Learning
Place-Based Learning: Solid Ground in Troubled Waters
By incorporating a sense of place in instruction, teachers and community partners have adapted programs to keep students engaged even during distance learning. Jack Chin explores how place-based experiences shape learners for today's world.
Equity & Access
Four Statewide EdTech Rollouts: What Works in Public Education
Dr. Karen Beerer explores four statewide edtech rollouts that aim to improve school systems.
Future of Learning
Humanity: The Antidote
As we look to transform the future of education, developing relationships must be in the crosshairs. Matt Piercy explores the need for forging the human connection approach to education.
Career & Technical Ed
What Happens when you Launch Students’ Interests into the World?
See what happens when you launch students' interests into the world. It results in powerful learning, a better planet and connected communities.
Future of Learning
Microlearning – Is Small the New Big Idea?
In a big world where platforms dominate, how can small, agile players shape the ecosystem? In education, how can microlearning - microschools and bite-sized learning - change the laying of the land?
Learning Design
Briony Chown on Exploring the Potential of Elementary Education
On this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast, Tom Vander Ark is joined by Briony Chown, Director of High Tech High Elementary Explorer. Together, they discuss the wild potential of education, the role of an educator and more.
Difference Making
Equity and ESSER: How Schools Can Embrace a Participatory Approach to Amplify Family Voices in Budget Planning
Schools across the country have a welcome task this summer: deciding how to spend a windfall in federal stimulus funds. Brooklyn Lab is doing that by asking families for their insights.