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Project-Based Learning
Business Partnerships in PBL…What Does That Really Mean?
By: Tony Donen. In my work as principal at STEM School Chattanooga, I have found several cost friendly and mutually beneficial solutions that connect businesses, students and teachers that I call "Business Partner PBL."
Future of Learning
Getting Smart Podcast | Experiencing Place-Based Education at Teton Science Schools
I had the opportunity to spend two days in the beautiful Teton Mountain range experiencing my own place-based learning at Teton Science Schools. Join me on this "audio field trip" for your own place-based experience.
Schools Worth Visiting
12 Ways to Start Teaching STEM in Your School
Want more chances for your students to learn STEM but don’t know where to start? Here are 12 tips for learning about STEM (and STEAM) experiences and implementing them in your school.
Future of Learning
All Kids Coding in Rhode Island
Richard Culatta shares more on Rhode Island's CS4RI program--an ambitious plan to offer computer-science classes in every school in the state by the fall of 2017, making it the first state ever to do so.
Personalized Learning
How a Principal Inspired an Innovative Classroom Audio System
By: Dolores Gribouski. During my time as an elementary school principal, here is how my team and I collaborated with an audio technology company to create an innovative and needed classroom audio system for our school.
Personalized Learning
8 Video Resources for Authentic Project-Based Learning Design
By: Grace Belfiore. It can be hard to implement project-based learning, but it helps to be able to see teachers using PBL in their own classrooms. Here are eight top videos focusing on the process of implementing PBL.
EdTech
3 Strategies For Building a School Community Through Technology
By: Yvonne Blinde. We all know technology can enhance teaching and learning outcomes, but it can also help schools create beneficial and supportive relationships between teachers, administrators, parents and students.
Podcasts
Getting Smart Podcast | Building 21st Century Skills
David Ross, the new CEO of the Partnership for 21st Century Learning, sat down with Bonnie Lathram to talk about the current golden age of project-based learning and how it connects to the importance of social and emotional learning.
Personalized Learning
Advancing Human Potential: The Power of Personalized Learning
The potential for powerful personalized learning is strong enough that Jim Shelton has made it the central focus of the new Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative, which he shared more about in his 2016 iNACOL Symposium keynote.
Place Based Education
Putting the City at the Heart Of Place-Based Education
By: Daniel A. Rabuzzi. Place-Based Education practitioners seem to frame “place” primarily as rural or wild, with few examples featuring urban landscapes. Since the majority of us live in urban areas, let's also include PBE in the city.