Leadership
Staff Picks: Longer School Days, Steve Jobs, & Assessment
This week, Karen picked an article about long school days, Caroline honored Steve Jobs with an article pick and Sarah highlighted an inspiring article by Wesley Fryer. Tom picked assessment as the hot topic of the week.
Leadership
How Districts and Charters Shape Local Strategies for Next-Gen Learning
By: Sarah Luchs. This article outlines innovative approaches by regional hubs for innovation, including the benefits and challenges of systems-based strategies and school-based innovation for creating next-gen schools.
Personalized Learning
Next-Gen Virtual PLCs for the Global Educator
By: Kimberly Mitchell. Harnessing the energy of creative teachers worldwide in virtual PLCs is a game changer for how we all learn in next-gen professional development.
EdTech
How Superintendents Can Implement Broadband Upgrade Projects
By: Evan Marwell. 'Network Essentials for Superintendents' is a new and FREE guide for EdLeaders on how to kick-off and lead successful broadband and network upgrades.
Personalized Learning
Charter School Authorizing 2.0
Within the richness and diversity of the ed reform sector, the practice of charter school authorizing isn’t the trendiest. However, the multitude of charter school authorizers in Michigan is leading to a paradigm shift of authorizing in the mitten state.
EdTech
NewSchools Presents: Education Entrepreneurs on the Future of Education
NewSchools, a venture fund working to transform education by supporting entrepreneurs, wrapped up its inspiring Education Entrepreneurs series yesterday with a closing video from several of its featured edupreneurs over the past four weeks.
Personalized Learning
Debating Petrilli’s Post “One size fits most” for Ed Reform
By Bruno Behrend We education reformers are a fractious lot. We like to debate each other more than we like to take on the obstacles to transforming education. One exception to this rule is Mike Petrilli of The Fordham Foundation. He is well known for his tendency…
Personalized Learning
If Online Courses Support Personalized Learning, Then Why Aren’t We Using Them?
We say that we want students to own their education, to be invested in what and why they are learning, but are we realistically putting them in a position to want to learn? Online courses provide an opportunity for schools across the country to offer a larger variety of courses with expert teachers.
Personalized Learning
Edmodo: Instant Blend, Quick Flip, Easy BYOD
Greg Wilborn and I have been at a couple of the same edtech conferences lately. He leads personal digital learning in Colorado Springs. We had breakfast with Edmodo chairman Rob Hutter today at Sharefair in Denver.
EdTech
Teachers Rule, Teachers Trained, Teachers Win
It's Friday, and with a whole week of on-location new media work to be done, we'll leave you this weekend with the news from the week, brought to you by Education Equality Project. This week, it was all about teachers, past, present and future.