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Letting Go: Cultivating Assessment-Capable Learners

Posted by Kerry Muse on Jan 29, 2013 in Blog, Venture Academy


Letting Go: Cultivating Assessment-Capable Learners

I wasn’t always a successful teacher. In fact, when I first started teaching high school fresh out of college at 22, my role could better be described as kid-manager. I had a lot of passion and was great at keeping kids in class and putting out metaphorical fires, but most of my time wasn’t spent engaging students in true deeper learning. I would never have hired my past self.
Ten…

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Recruiting Students for Your Blended School: Remember 3 Ps

Posted by Jon Bacal on Jan 22, 2013 in Blog, Venture Academy


Recruiting Students for Your Blended School: Remember 3 Ps

Over the past year, your team has developed an exciting vision and detailed plan for a personalized, blended digital learning school that prepares all students for college and 21st century careers.  You’ve found the perfect school leader, secured approval to open and a great facility, and are hiring terrific teachers.  Enrolling students to fill your program is the easy part,…

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Hire Edupreneurs: Advice for School Start-Ups

Posted by Jon Bacal on Jan 16, 2013 in Blog, Venture Academy


Hire Edupreneurs: Advice for School Start-Ups

In the jargon-filled world of education, neologisms should be used sparingly.  For a new school aimed at inspiring innovators and entrepreneurial leaders with a new learning model, the term edupreneur is indispensible.  Edupreneur combines the concepts of education and entrepreneur – a person who undertakes any enterprise or venture, usually with considerable initiative and risk. …

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In a Passionate Life, Lessons for Learning

Posted by Jon Bacal on Nov 8, 2012 in Blog, Venture Academy


In a Passionate Life, Lessons for Learning

A tribute to Verne Johnson, Blended Learning Trailblazer
The close of this year’s bitter, uninspiring campaign season marked the passing of a leader who embodied a very different approach to public life and leadership.  The journey of civic and education pioneer Verne C. Johnson, who died last week at 87, offers a case study of a leader who catalyzed innovation and creative disruption over the…

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Waiting for MacGyver

Posted by Kerry Muse on Oct 31, 2012 in Blog, Venture Academy


Waiting for MacGyver

We’re looking for the MacGyvers of education, which is exactly how I describe the type of individuals I’m looking for as we begin recruiting for Venture Academy’s founding team. If you’re unfamiliar with the character MacGyver, take a look here.
Roger von Oech, who has spent his professional life focusing on the study of creativity, once said that “It’s easy to come up with…

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