Competency-Based Education
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Project-Based Learning
Engaging Students: Movement Through Games and Music
With a greater focus on flexible learning environments, and educators looking to promote student choice and voice, the perception of “what classrooms look like” has changed, and continues to evolve into a more active learning space--a place where students are empowered.
Leadership
Using Technology to Build Partnerships with Parents
Every day, my goal is to find ways to connect and engage with students’ families, despite these hurdles. We all know that regular communication with parents and families is the key to building a strong classroom community.
Project-Based Learning
Philadelphia Is Reimagining Arts & Creativity Education Programming
By: Erik Day and Emily Liebtag. With their new Arts & Creativity Framework, Philadelphia is rethinking what arts education means and bringing it into the 21st century with a replicable strategy focused on stakeholder voice, resource allocation and community engagement.
Project-Based Learning
Real-Life Examples of Design Thinking in the Classroom
Design thinking centers on a pedagogy aimed at creating and facilitating future innovators and breakthrough thinkers. It is about creating creative and collaborative workflows engineered to tackle big projects and prototyping to discover new solutions.
Competency-Based Education
Getting Smart Podcast | Julie Young on Powerful Online College Prep
Download and listen in to an interview with Julie Young, CEO of ASU Prep Digital. Hear Julie's predictions on the future of online learning, what made FLVS and ASU Prep Digital huge successes, future plans for the program and reflections on her time at FLVS.
Early Learning
20 Ways to Celebrate National Family Literacy Day
Did you know the single greatest indicator of children’s success is the literacy level of their parents? Did you know that parental involvement in their child’s reading has been found to be the most important determinant of language and emergent literacy?
SEL & Mindset
Smart List: 50 Organizations, Schools, Networks and Resources Improving SEL
We’ve recently been struck by just how many great SEL resources and organizations we’ve worked with and heard about. It’s enough to feel a bit overwhelmed. We compiled this list of 50 good resources to get the ball rolling and hear your recommendations for new ones.
Future of Learning
Save The Planet–Starting Today
If we have a list of the issues that will shape the future--an earth owner’s manual--when and how should we introduce them to young people? What does it mean to be really ready and why should we be encouraging young people to engage with the world’s most important issue? Tom Vander Ark answers these questions and more.
EdTech
Data Interoperability in K-12: A Teacher’s Perspective
By: Brett Emerson. In my district, we have inconsistency among the applications we use for intervention and monitoring student progress. Even now, parents still don’t know how their child scored on last year’s standardized tests. Data interoperability could help.
EdTech
Inclusion Drives Innovation, and Inspires Microsoft’s Newest Updates
By: Madison Edmiston. Microsoft is committed to “empowering every person and organization on the planet to achieve more.” Implicit in that statement is a commitment to those with learning disabilities. Learn more about their work in that area here.