Observing Interconnections: A Futures Thinking Now Conversation
One of the Futures Studies tools everyone can use to analyze issues at the systems level is a Connection Circle. See how it’s done.
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One of the Futures Studies tools everyone can use to analyze issues at the systems level is a Connection Circle. See how it’s done.
Katherine Prince and Jason Swanson chat about the tools and resources needed to frame and prepare for change and why it’s so important to do it.
Two years in, these four districts share milestones reached in pioneering personalized, competency-based learning – and the distance learning challenges it helped them meet.
Individuals from more than 20 countries joined us for a recent informal webinar exploring future tensions and uncertainties arising from COVID-19.
The idea that new dialogues would facilitate societal change is explored by the driver of change, A New Civic Discourse.
Meetings students where they are means we need to meet parents where they are, too.
By listening to a child and keeping your word to them, you are showing them they can depend on you. And when you break your word, they learn the opposite.
Starting with the “Why” behind the decisions we make about teaching and learning is powerful.
A traditional rubric doesn’t leave room for the kinds of critical feedback students need to achieve success.
For Abbie Forbus, a teaching and learning director with KnowledgeWorks, school has always been special.
Areas of Expertise: systems-level change thinking, curriculum development, superintendent experience “I believe it is our responsibility to inspire and empower wonder about learning opportunities that can change the lives and futures of our kiddos and communities.” Virgel partners with national policymakers and local learning communities throughout the country to redesign learning structures to become more … Continued
Learn more about the personalized learning journey of RSU2 and how community was essential to the success of student-centered personalized learning.
Dulce Diaz’s opportunities in the competency-based environment helped her learn how she learned, and how to make meaningful connections to what mattered to her.
Guest post by Matthew Shea, Coordinator of Student Achievement at RSU2 in Maine, and co-host of Personalized Learning with Matt and Courtney, a new and noteworthy iTunes podcast As districts shift to competency-based learning, one issue that always concerns parents is college acceptance. How will colleges know what my child has learned if there aren’t … Continued
During eight presidential debates, 175,000 words were spoken but the word “education” only came up 64 times. That’s not enough.
Success in a rigorous early college setting is not easy, but it is possible, as graduates from more than 300 innovative schools across the U.S. will attest.
We learn when pushed and when challenged, and, more often than not, we rise to the occasion and create something new. We create something distinctly ours.
Matt Williams led and facilitated a session at the Grantmakers for Education’s (GFE) annual conference in Miami. The session was sponsored by GFE’s Education Policy Working Group and was titled, “Policy Update: Big Data Backlash – Better and Safer Data Use in Education.”
Ana Mertzlufft, a senior at Clean Technologies and Sustainable Industries Early College High School, shares her early college experience.
Last week my colleague, Jesse Moyer, and I had the pleasure of facilitating a session at the 2014 Northwest Proficiency/Competency Conference hosted by the Oregon Business Education Compact and the Confederation of Oregon School Administrators. We were asked by the conference organizers to guide the group through a number of exercises to answer two important … Continued
Ohio Governor John Kasich delivered his annual State of the State address on February 24, 2014, in Medina, Ohio.
Governor John Kasich delivered his State of the State of Ohio speech last night in Medina, Ohio with several policy initiatives aimed at education (and a couple hinting at elements of competency education and early college)