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How to Avoid Post-REVIVAL Stress Disorder (PRSD)

Posted by Desiree Smith on Feb 26, 2015 in Blog, Education Innovation Fellowship, Featured


How to Avoid Post-REVIVAL Stress Disorder (PRSD)

I’m a PK (Pastor’s Kid), so I know a spiritual revival when I see one. On this California trip, we have not entered any makeshift churches out of white tents, but in equally inspiring, open, and creative spaces, we have been challenged to respond to a call of action to join a growing movement in our educational system.
I started to realize that the 22 of us Fellows were beginning to convert…

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Personalized Learning Podcast: Episode 2 – Leap Innovations grows student engagement in Chicago

Posted by Silke Koester on Feb 4, 2015 in Blog, NGLC


Personalized Learning Podcast: Episode 2 – Leap Innovations grows student engagement in Chicago

The second episode of the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation’s Personalized Learning podcast series features the Leap Innovations. Leap Innovations is part of the Next Generation Learning Challenges’ portfolio of regional partners who are incubating local breakthrough model designs. Leap Innovations in particular has awarded 7 grants to charter and turnaround district schools in the…

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Go Blended! Book Launched Today!

Posted by Silke Koester on Feb 3, 2015 in Alliance College-Ready Public Schools, Aspire Public Schools, Blog, Cornerstone Charter Health High School, EL Haynes Public Charter School, Featured, Summit Public Schools


Go Blended! Book Launched Today!

Liz Arney, Director of Innovative Learning at Aspire Public Schools, has just launched her book, Go Blended!, today! 
 
Go Blended! A Handbook for Blending Technology in Schools highlights the successes and lessons learned from Aspire’s process of transforming some of our schools to become blended learning schools to create a helpful step-by-step guide for teachers and administrators who…

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Personalized Learning Podcast: Episode 1 – CityBridge Foundation rethinks education in Washington, D.C.

Posted by Silke Koester on Jan 29, 2015 in Blog, NGLC


Personalized Learning Podcast: Episode 1 – CityBridge Foundation rethinks education in Washington, D.C.

The first episode of the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation’s Personalized Learning podcast series features the CityBridge Foundation of Washington DC. CityBridge is part of the Next Generation Learning Challenges’ portfolio of regional partners who are incubating local breakthrough model designs. CityBridge in particular has funded 18 next-gen learning schools in the DC area and runs…

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Blast to the Future

Posted by Jonathan Tiongco on Jan 7, 2015 in Alliance College-Ready Public Schools, Blog, Featured


Blast to the Future

What would Marty McFly and Doc Brown say about education and schools in 2015?
 
Are we being as innovative as the flying car? As daring as the hover board? As efficient as the Master-cook? As cool as the auto-adjusting, auto-drying jacket?
 
Or are we stuck in Hill Valley, 1985? Or, even worse, Hill Valley in 1955?
 
As we think about education in 2015, the year that Marty McFly…

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What if Students Made a School?

Posted by Tom Carroll on Jan 5, 2015 in Blog, Featured


What if Students Made a School?

What would happen if we trusted students to design their schools? Student voice and choice are core principles of a personalized learning movement that is empowering today’s youth to take responsibility for the knowledge, skills and abilities they need to thrive in college, careers and life.
 
As new education models grow to support this movement, are we ready to take the next step: asking…

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The Paper Bullet: Making the Digital World Tangible

Posted by Nichole Husa on Dec 16, 2014 in Blog, Featured, Matchbook Learning


The Paper Bullet: Making the Digital World Tangible

In this rapidly growing space of personalized learning, there is a digital solution for each and every component that is needed to shift traditional schools to student-centric. We can wax poetic on which platform is best suited to meet students’ needs, and we can get excited about the robust and rigorous playlists we have procured using open source content. Employing an innovative use of space…

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Final Reflections on a Transformative Year: 5 Characteristics of an Innovative Educator

Posted by Adam Hill on Dec 10, 2014 in Blog, Education Innovation Fellowship, Featured


Final Reflections on a Transformative Year: 5 Characteristics of an Innovative Educator

These past twelve months in the Education Innovation Fellowship have been a transformative journey, stirring in me a desire to rethink not only our centuries-old understanding of school and classroom design, but also what it means to be a truly innovative educator.
 
My journey culminated on Saturday at the second annual Education Innovation Summit here in D.C.—a daylong conference…

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Lebanon High School: Lighting the Path to Personalized Learning

Posted by Getting Smart on Nov 24, 2014 in Blog, Featured, Getting Smart


Lebanon High School: Lighting the Path to Personalized Learning

The Getting Smart team spent the last year exploring next gen schools. With support from Next Generation Learning Challenges (NGLC), Tom, Caroline, Carri and Megan set off to learn more about the forward-leaning leaders who are building and inspiring new models of teaching and learning. Our report, Lighting the Path to Personalized Learning: Inspiring Stories from Next Gen Schools, highlights…

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Have You Been Tapped?

Posted by Greg Hurst on Nov 21, 2014 in Blog, Featured, Matchbook Learning


Have You Been Tapped?

Recently I have been conducting research on the human capital framework to refine the core competencies, behaviors, and personality traits that are most relevant to predict success in the Blended Learning environment. During this process I uncovered many bodies of work leading to a framework that has continued to be developed to the point where several core competencies have risen to the top as…

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