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Professional Learning

Tracking Key Issues in Teaching & Learning: What Matters Most in 2017

EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative has released survey results from its annual search for the most pressing issues in teaching and learning; this year’s results just might surprise you.
Professional Learning

How Do We Make Maker Educators?

Many educators don't identify as makers, but they should. Here's why, with a few simple strategies to help teachers adopt a maker mindset.
Reimagining Assessment

Rethinking Assessment Requires Rethinking Professional Learning

For students to learn deeply, the educators in their lives must also learn deeply. Rethinking assessment is an opportunity for deeper professional learning.
New Designs for School

Choice, Trust, and Agency in Pinellas County Schools

In the district's transition to personalized learning, educators are focused on school culture with trust in students at the top of the list.
Technology Tools

Outside the Boundaries: Exploring Virtual and Augmented Reality in Learning

Virtual reality, like rock n’ roll, is not something that can be described well. It must be experienced in order to be fully appreciated and understood.
Reimagining Assessment

Assessment for Equity

A look at the role equity plays in the learning agenda of the Assessment for Learning Project.
Building Community

Finding and Telling Your Educator Story of Innovation

Sharing stories of innovation, progress, even failure can be an impactful way for educators to rally the support of their community & inspire others to redesign schools.
Professional Learning

The Maker Fellow Program: Oakland educators build a table, rethink learning in school

A maker mindset can’t be developed through lectures or course materials. This program found inspiration in the most ordinary of objects: a table.
Building Community

Innovation & Finance: Lessons from Afton’s Work with NGLC Grant Program

Afton Partners is evolving its definition of sustainability and scalability based on outcomes of their work with NGLC schools.
Designing for Equity

Putting Agency Back Into Personalized Learning

It would be all too easy for personalized learning to lose its equity edge and devolve into a way to more efficiently sustain existing inequities.