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Personalized Learning
Engaging Families During Distance Learning
By: Erin Gohl and Kristen Thorson. The pandemic has disrupted many of the traditional opportunities to connect and engage with families. Erin and Kristen provide ways educators can connect through distance learning.
Equity & Access
Economic Mobility High: The New End Game for America’s High Schools
Tom and Eric share why high schools can and should be economic development engines of our communities.
Leadership
Redefining Pre-Service Learning In The Virtual Age
Whether it’s modeling better virtual instruction, as well as increased emphasis on social-emotional learning, school leaders and professional learning facilitators are having to rethink how to prepare teachers for the school year.
Getting Through
Schools Need a Success Coach for Every Learner
Success coaches are powerful resources for connection and healing and can help shepherd our student communities through this pandemic and its lasting traumas.
Future of Learning
Building School and Classroom Community During Distance Learning
By: Erin Gohl and Kristen Thorson. Though these current times and circumstances, leaders must use nontraditional approaches and create possibilities to connect with students deeper through distance learning.
Future of Learning
5 Ways To Extend Learning and Challenge Learners in the Virtual Environment
With many schools across the country having to start the academic year virtually, we need to continually consider how to challenge all of our students and authentically extend their learning.
Future of Learning
Supporting Statewide Change Through Virtual Course Access Models
Devin and Tom discuss how states can use virtual learning opportunities to reach all students.
Personalized Learning
3 Ways Leaders Can Create The Conditions for Deeper Learning
Leaders are charged with creating the learning culture and environment that is conducive to deeper learning. Three areas to begin with are how we start school, how we share student work and how we culminate the year.
EdTech
Choosing the Right Tools for Amplifying Learning Through PBL
Rachelle Dene Poth shares ideas on resources for students to extend learning through PBL and the digital tools to make that happen.
Leadership
Scaling Active Learning: Professional Development Was Key to the El Paso Transformation
By: Shannon Buerk. In the fourth blog in a series on El Paso Independent School District, Shannon describes the important role that professional learning played in the district's transformation.