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Competency-Based Education
Moving Toward Mastery Learning: Practical Steps for Making Progress
The education of today is adapting in order to enable learners to meet the future of tomorrow. Mastery learning is a combination of student-centered learning objectives and thresholds supported with strategies that can create powerful, replicable results and provides a plan to meet future education needs.
Difference Making
Learning to Make a Difference at One Stone
One Stone believes that learners in every environment can find their voice and use it for good. Here's how its high school students are impacting communities, pursuing passions, and thinking globally.
Competency-Based Education
Podcast: Scott Looney on Growing the Mastery Transcript Consortium
Today we talk to Scott Looney, the founder of the Mastery Transcript Consortium (MTC) and the Head of School at Hawken about the expanding network of schools.
Future of Learning
HopSkipDrive: Safe Ride Share for Kids
What if kids could use ride share services to travel to their internship or get home after soccer practice? HopSkipDrive, a Los Angeles startup, has solved this problem with a safe transportation solution for families and schools.
Equity & Access
21st Century Education Student Bill of Rights
Access to a relevant, personalized, applied, tech-infused and choice-based education should be non-negotiable for all students. It’s time for a 21st Century Education Student Bill of Rights.
Early Learning
Small Talk, Big Benefits: Adding Conversations to Reading and Everyday Moments
By: Erin Gohl and Kristen Thorson. Reading with children has a plethora of developmental benefits. Recent research suggests dialogic, or conversation-based, reading can even further broaden and deepen the benefits of the reading experience.
Schools Worth Visiting
11 Alternative Schools that are Real Alternatives
Trying to push all kids through a content-centric, compliance-oriented model just won’t work. A variety of alternative approaches have been attempted; here are a few approaches educators have to develop for youth that haven’t been successful in traditional schools.
EdTech
8 Organizations Powering Positive Change in New Orleans
The transformation of New Orleans to a system of charter schools has been a city- and community-supported effort designed around three principles: educator run schools, parent choice, and public oversight.
Personalized Learning
3 School Innovation Insights that Challenge Common Assumptions
By: Chelsea Waite. Chelsea discusses the launch of the Christensen Institute's new Canopy project and three innovation takeaways that may challenge your assumptions.
Future of Learning
How SNHU Succeeded by Understanding What Students Really Want—and Changing Everything
By: Michael B. Horn and Paul LeBlanc. Horn and LeBlanc discuss how SNHU made internal changes and succeeded in designing better sets of experiences to help students make progress and be successful in their lives.