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A Glimpse into the Future of Learning: An Infographic
A Glimpse into the Future of Learning: An Infographic tells the big story of KnowledgeWorks third forecast on the future of...
Topics: Future of Learning
Disruption Digest
An quick narrative digest of the big story and five disruptions of our third full forecast on the future of...
Topics: Future of Learning
Competency Education Series: Policy Brief Two
Competency Education Series: Policy Brief Two examines three federal innovation competitions to better understand their impact on the growth of...
Topics: Education Policy
Kick Start Your Staff Morale with K-TECH (Part 5): Honor Staff Contributions
Take some time to think about how you have honored your staff in the past and what you might do...
Kick Start Your Staff Morale with K-TECH (Part 4): Three Tips for Making Connections to Improve Staff Morale and Performance
What strategies are your strategies for making connections? How does making connections increase both job performance and staff morale?
Competency Education Series: Policy Brief One
Competency Education Series: Policy Brief One includes a working definition for competency education, examples of states doing the work and suggestions...
Kick Start Your Staff Morale with K-TECH (Part 3): Staff Empowerment
How are you empowering your staff to lead, change and grow together by using Dan Pink’s motivation strategies of autonomy,...
High School Race to the Top
This paper provides an overview of the 10 Essential Elements for high school reform as well as real-world examples from...
Topics: Education Policy
The Case for Early College High Schools
With the right supports, early college high schools students are succeeding in college and beyond, at unprecedented rates.
Kick Start Staff Morale (Part 2): Three Tips for Building Trust
Leaders must instill trust by having high expectations that all staff members will be honest, fair and reliable – with...
Kick Start Staff Morale with K-TECH (Part 1): Knowing Your Staff Better
The key to knowing your staff is in learning how they think, what they need, as well as what they...
Note Making: Brain Exercise to Enhance Reading Comprehension Skills
Reading is a fundamental task and too many students are not demonstrating mastery of reading comprehension and inference skills.
Kick Start Your Classroom with K-TECH (Part 5): 8 Quick, Easy or Free Ways to Honor All Students
Get ideas for classroom-based and school-wide examples for recognizing and honoring students.
An ESEA State Waiver Strategy
States are in dire need of comprehensive education reform that embraces a new way of thinking – a shift from...
Topics: Education Policy
Recommendations for a Second Term: A Federal Transition Memorandum
Read a memo issued from KnowledgeWorks to then Secretary of Education Arne Duncan with recommendations for his second term.
Topics: Systems Change
Kick Start Your Classroom with K-TECH (Part 4): Connecting Students in Meaningful Ways
Creating highly rigorous lessons are important for student success, but it is just as important that the lesson is relevant...
Teaching with Technology in a Language Arts Classroom
Laura Cross, an English Language Arts teacher at Akron Buchtel Innovation-STEM 7-8 Middle School, shares how she uses technology in her...
The Importance of High Expectations
The expectation that every student in the school will be successful in college – emphasis on every – makes students...
Kick Start Your Classroom with K-TECH (Part 3): Four Tips for Authentic Student Empowerment
Students who feel authentically empowered within their classroom and school are more engaged in the work and demonstrate better behavior...
Kick Start Your Classroom with K-TECH (Part 2): Three Tips for Building Trust
Students who trust their teachers are more likely to engage in learning and less likely to cause disruptions to the...
Forecast 3.0: Recombinant Education: Regenerating the Learning Ecosystem
An action-oriented update to KnowledgeWorks second full forecast on the future of learning, 2020 Forecast: Creating the Future of Learning,...
Kick Start Your Classroom with K-TECH (Part 1)
The key is to knowing your students better is in learning how your students think, what they need, as well...
A Guide to School Improvement Grant Implementation
A Guide to School Improvement Grant Implementation
Topics: Education Policy
Transforming to a World of Learning: A Federal Policy Agenda
As a leader in applying future trends to educational transformation, KnowledgeWorks seeks to inform thought leaders about the policy conditions...
Topics: Systems Change