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4 Systemic Supports for High Quality PBL
By: David Ross. Here are four support systems that enable teachers to practice high-quality project-based learning and achieve desired educational outcomes for 21st-century students.
Difference Making
Novelty & Complexity: 13 Youth Onramps
The world is getting more complex, and globalization makes every sector more competitive. Here are 13 ways teachers can prepare students for the novelty and complexity they will face in a new world.
Personalized Learning
Personalized Learning in Boston For Youth That Need it Most
Boston Day and Evening Academy is a student-centered, competency based school that doesn’t rely on grades or grade levels to communicate progress.
Leadership
Rethinking High School: Badging, Competency-Based and Real-World Work
I recently had a chance to visit Del Lago Academy in California, where school leaders are rethinking high school to help students problem-solve, think creatively and create their own meaningful solutions.
Personalized Learning
Restructuring the Classroom to Create an Integrated Learning Environment
By Kelley Tanner. Rather than just incorporate technology, we need to think about the new ways our students learn and build the best environments to support creativity, critical thinking and future learning.
Leadership
New, Different and Adaptive: The New Keys to Education and Employability
The business and education worlds are undeniably connected, and we are living in an age of unprecedented shifts in our economy. So here are five ways to ensure today's students are being prepared for future college and career success.
Competency-Based Education
Should I Grade-Skip My Gifted Child?
By: Jonathan Wai, Ann Lupkowski Shoplik and Susan Assouline. One effective way to help talented students remain intellectually challenged and engaged in school is to have them skip a grade. But how do you decide this is right for your child?
Leadership
Human-Scale at Scale: Personalization, But to What End?
By: Tom Beresford. While touring learner-centered schools in the U.S., I had the opportunity to visit and witness two innovative models at Big Picture Learning and Summit Public Schools--both successful but with very different mindsets around their approach.
Leadership
3 Teacher Tips for the PBL Paradigm Shift
By: Jenny Pieratt. The paradigm shift from teacher to PBL facilitator is not one that happens overnight, over one training or through one project. Here are three tips to help teachers best prepare for success in a project-based world.
Leadership
Instructional Design: Inspire Students and Empower Teachers
By Blake Beus. As educators today, we have more tools available for our use than any generation of students or teachers before us. It’s our job to decide which tools we want to bring into our classrooms and how we want to use them. This is no small task.