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EdTech
Education Data Privacy and Interoperability Go Hand in Hand
By: Rachel Anderson. Interoperability means that all the systems and sectors that serve a student can talk to each other, and that data can move securely across systems.
Ed Policy
Why I’m Post Policy and Pro-Innovation
Personalized pathways of learning can be far more powerful than the way we have historically organized schools--we just need to invent the tools to do it well and at scale. This will be the direction of education policy in the coming decades.
Competency-Based Education
Getting Smart Podcast | Competency-Based Blended Language Learning
Language teacher Jennie Taranovich shares more about her success after shifting to a personalized and competency-based classroom environment that helps individual students meet their respective academic goals.
SEL & Mindset
Empowering Our Students with 21st-Century Skills for Today
By: Dave Ross. In this globally and digitally interconnected world, all learners, from cradle to career, need new skills and knowledge to succeed. Here's how we can empower them with these 21st-Century Skills.
EdTech
Education Data at Work in K-12
By: Josh Klein. It should be a very basic thing for us to be able to talk to each other about how we’re going to exchange data and what data we want and need, but a number of factors can complicate the process. Here's how we can start to address them.
Leadership
Increasing Student Access Through Project LEAN In
By: Sam Sakai-Miller. Project LEAN In is San Lorenzo Unified School District's program for implementing a 1:1 student:device ratio in classrooms to increase student engagement and achievement. Here are lessons learned, best practices and unexpected benefits.
EdTech
Learning With Virtual Reality Ignites Creativity and Career Exploration
By: Alexandra Lange. Virtual reality (VR) has sparked excitement in my science classroom, opened doors that I couldn’t have imagined just a year ago and encouraged my students to begin thinking more about their future careers.
Podcasts
Getting Smart Podcast | Language Learning Opens Doors to Opportunity in Work and Life
Dr. Lisa Frumkes, Senior Director of Language Learning Products at Rosetta Stone, shares how learning a language at any age can be fruitful, providing opportunities for life and career experiences that you never imagined.
Personalized Learning
SOLE: Hacking Today’s Education for the Future
By: Dr. Jeffrey McClellan and Justin Aglio. Self-Organizing Learning Environments (SOLEs) draw on children’s natural curiosity to create a dynamic education space for students to learn, interact and develop critical problem-solving skills.
Innov8
Innov8: The Future of Learning
This coming Saturday, April 22, is National Earth Day--a day to celebrate the world while also thinking of ways to improve it. Today’s eight stories celebrate the many ways education leaders are working to improve education for today’s students, as well as for future generations.