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Enabling Change

3 Major Shifts in Teaching & Learning: Reflections on the 2016 ELI Annual Meeting

The first two shifts in higher education are complete; it is the third shift, now well underway, that caught my attention at this past ELI Annual Meeting.
Designing for Equity

More Than Instruction: Schools with the power to transform communities

When we opened Thrive Public School in San Diego 5 years ago, we knew we had the opportunity and the responsibility to create an intentionally diverse school.
Reimagining Assessment

The Puzzle of the Macro in the Micro

If you're excited about micro credentials, it's important that you remember you may not be representative of the broader higher ed community--or its intended user base.
New Designs for School

Why Every Student Should Have a Mentor and Every Teacher Should Be One

Mentorship in middle and high school has the power to impact the course of students’ academic and personal life trajectories.
Technology Tools

The Conversion of a Skeptic: My Journey into Online Teaching (Part III)

Student demand for online learning led to some transformational changes by a faculty member and self-professed skeptic of asynchronous teaching.
Reimagining Assessment

6 Ways to Make Collective Feedback Work in Classrooms

English teachers at Leadership Public Schools (LPS) faced a common question: how to give more, and better, feedback on writing in their classrooms?
Technology Tools

Learning, Engaging, Enhancing with Digital Badging

Motivating busy higher ed professionals to learn and engage with one another isn’t always an easy task. We tried to change that with a high impact grant.
New Designs for School

3 Winning School Designs at Startup Weekend EDU in D.C.

Creation, passion, projects, internships, and the Smithsonian propelled these three school designs to the top of the heap in last weekend's startup competition.
Technology Tools

4 Steps to Help Make Informed Technology Decisions

We must balance the extended time it takes for people to adjust to a new technology with the fact that the tech solution will soon be, or already is, outdated.
Professional Learning

4 Takeaways from the #NGLCchat on Teacher Development for Next Gen Learning

The most recent #NGLCchat on teacher development to support next gen learning drew an audience of next gen practitioners and leaders. If you happened to miss it, don’t worry! We pulled some of the major themes and some of our favorite posts to share.