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Performance Contracting: Model for Governance, Provisioning & Accountability
I attend the National Association of Charter Sschool Authorizers Leadership Conference every year because I’m a disciple of Paul Hill. Almost 15 years ago, Paul got it about right in Reinventing Public Education: How Contracting Can Transform America’s Schools. Compared to the strange patchwork of local control, contracting…
From Place to Service
The shift from print-based learning to digital learning is a big deal, but more fundamental is the shift from institution-centric education to student-centered learning. Rich Halverson spoke about Rethinking Education at SREB last month. Below is a list adapted from Rich’s book about the10 shifts that…
Customizing Without Computers
I saw the future of high schools yesterday. It wasn't about cool digital aps, laptops, or talking to other young people on the other side of the world. It was re-engineering schooling around young people and their lives. Only in its second year,ACE Leadership High School, a charter school in Albuquerque, has the key to to unlocking our young people's hearts and minds.
10 Things I’d Do Right Now As a Superintendent
A public school superintendent asked me last week what I’d do right now. Here’s a list of ten projects for fall 2011: Plan for the shift to personal digital learning in three phases over the next 3-5 years. You need six coordinated plans considering content and instruction, assessment and data,…
Staff Picks: Testing, Flipped Classroom, Effective Teaching
This week's Staff Picks from Getting Smart takes a close look at the positive side of testing, the idea of the "flipped classroom," and the skills it takes to be an effective 21st century teacher.
Excited and Concerned about the Shift to Personal Digital Learning
Based on a sample of about a hundred educators from 16 southern states, the shift to personal digital learning creates new opportunity and new concerns. In several settings, we discussed factors accelerating the shift: Inexpensive mobile devices, learning apps The shift to online assessments led by two state consortia…
Relationships Key to High Quality Online Instruction
Last week we explored the importance of quality content but it is teachers that bring it to life. This week, Digital Learning Now released a video summary of Element #6, high quality instruction.
JEE Releases Guest Editorial On Accelerating STEM Capacity
The Journal of Engineering Education (JEE) released "Accelerating STEM Capacity: A Complex Adaptive System Perspective," a guest editorial by Rick Stephens and Michael Richey of the Boeing Company this July.
Leading the Shift to Personal Digital Learning
The shift to digital learning is expanding educational opportunity in the U.S. and even more significantly in emerging economies. The potential to customize learning, to boost engagement, and to extend learning at reduced costs is a set of world-changing opportunities.
Jefferson County eSchool Offers Online Options
The Jefferson County Public Schools e-School in Louisville KY provides part time and supplemental education to students locally and nationally. We interviewed Artie Dietz, the Assistant Principal. GS: What is eSchool? Dietz: We offer online learning opportunities to students grade 3-13 including dual credit courses. …