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Technology Tools

Digital Natives vs. Digital Immigrants

As the school year ramps up, it's easy for anyone to get caught up in an adversarial approach to technology and learning; digital immigrants versus digital natives. But it doesn’t have to be this way.
New Designs for School

Embracing the Hard Parts: 8 Video Resources for Authentic Learning Design

To understand how the magic of authentic learning emerges from the methods teachers use behind the scenes, sometimes you just need to see PBL in action.
New Designs for School

Experts Weigh in on Competency-Based Education

Competency-based approaches to learning—where learning becomes stretched by pace and path—are a game-changer for schools focused on deeper learning outcomes.
New Designs for School

How Next Gen Learning Can Support Student Agency

Ownership. Freedom. Respect. Trust. Courage. Souls on Fire. Find out what student agency is and why it’s so important to education today.
New Designs for School

The Importance of Social Emotional Learning in K-12 Education

Why is it that Thrive Public Schools feels so strongly that blended learning must be paired with social-emotional learning?
New Designs for School

K-12 Roundup of Tools and Resources: Protocols and Processes in Personalized Learning Classrooms

What new classroom protocols and processes are bubbling up in personalized learning environments? Find out in this insightful resource roundup.
Building Community

Lead Like an Education Punk Rocker

More than a music genre, punk rock was a social movement with some important lessons for education leaders working to create real, lasting change in schools.
Professional Learning

Learning Excursions

Giving teachers personalized professional learning authentically enables next gen personalized learning for students. We look at an example of this with a recent "learning excursion" to San Diego schools.
New Designs for School

Moving at Your Own Pace

Get the evidence behind “moving at your own pace” and examples of this instructional move in practice.
New Designs for School

10 Lessons Learned from Game Changers and Ground Breakers

These personalized learning pioneers have some powerful advice to give those looking to embark on the journey of education innovation and transformation.