schools for the future
Teaching and Teachers in Blended Learning Models
As education makes a move toward technological innovation, forgone are the once common sights and sounds of the classroom. The heavy textbook and the sound of its pages turning has given way to the clicking of keyboards with collaborative analysis of a virtual text. These once staples of American education systems are giving way to the new normal- technology and technology based instructional…
It’s All About School Culture!
I have been working since 1985 on competency-based education (CBE) models to better serve over-aged and under-credited students, first as the Principal of Jobs for Youth High School in Boston, later as the founder of Diploma Plus and more recently as the founder of Schools for the Future. During my roughly 30 years of doing this work, I have tested out several hypothesis as to what the key is to…