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Personalized Learning
Want Student Engagement? Stage It and Set the Hook
When I was a young adolescent, bass fishing excursions with my father were either the longest and most boring six hours of pointless casting or a crank-tastic time tied together by a lure, line, and learned lessons.
Personalized Learning
Learner-Centered STEM: Meet Harmony Public Schools
What do you get when you mix college prep, personalized blended learning, project-based STEM learning, and a small supportive environment? You get the largest high performing school network you’ve probably never heard of--Harmony Public Schools. Introducing a new series in partnership with Harmony called "Getting Smart on Learner-Centered STEM."
Leadership
Making the Shift from Community Engagement to Community Collaboration
By Christina Jean & Lisa Duty. The new Community Collaboration for School Innovation toolkit developed by The Colorado Department of Education, The Colorado Education Initiative, and The Learning Accelerator outlines the shift from traditional community engagement to active community collaboration in four stages.
Innov8
EdTech 10: Time to Kickoff CTE Month
February is Career and Technical Education Month! As part of the month long public awareness campaign we are celebrating with the publication of Generation Do-It-Yourself (GenDIY) blogs -- how young people are hacking a pathway to a career they love.
EdTech
Bloomboard Collections: Leading Off With Student Agency
Leading teacher development platform Bloomboard recently launched Collections of teacher resources. Collections are bite-sized resources that help educators learn how to put theory into practice. The new resource makes it easy for educators to learn, share and discuss solutions to classroom challenges.
EdTech
Edmodo Adds Enterprise Tools
With more than 63 million users, Edmodo is the leading K-12 learning platform. Recently Edmodo launched three enterprise tools, PD Tools, Management, and Collections. It's also available for organizations.
Personalized Learning
How 2 Minutes of SEL Can Change the Tone for the Day
What if two-minutes could change the tone of the classroom for the entire day? We visited Margie DiMuzio and Brittany Noble's classroom at Carson K-8 School in Cincinnati Public Schools, an innovative blended approach to teaching SEL to see how they are using two-minutes to change an classroom tone and attitude.
Leadership
‘Most Likely to Succeed’ Tours all 50 States
Executive Producer Ted Dintersmith embarks on the second half of his 50 State Tour with Most Likely to Succeed with stops in the Northeast and Northwest meeting with Governors, Superintendents, parents, students and schools.
Personalized Learning
How Project-Based Learning Fosters Community Change
When we bring real world issues to the classroom and allow students to lead real work, through powerful project-based learning, students can have a big impact. How does project-based learning foster community change? What started with a dialogue around slavery and reading the texts of Frederick Douglass resulted in students doing something about modern day slavery in their own community.
Personalized Learning
Meeting the 10 Expectations Students Have of School
By: Chris Jackson. Have we considered the expectations students have of school? Chris Jackson writes that the real paradigm shift may be in asking the question to students: What do you expect from school? We can take students' expectations and interests into classrooms--and outside of them. By doing so, we will increase student motivation.