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A New World: VR and AR Tech Developments

Virtual reality and augmented reality technology has a long history. Recent progress in mobile technologies has opened the door to innovative headsets.
New Designs for School

Little Kids, Big Ideas: Inspiring Project-Based Learning

4 practices help teachers design meaningful project-based learning, revealing kids' hidden talents and genius, contributing to their community.
Building Community

Scaling Personalized Learning at Distinctive Schools: Going Slow to Go Fast

Adopting personalized learning benefits from the lessons of early innovators, but investing the next group of educators in both planning and design is crucial.
Technology Tools

Beyond Test Scores, Measuring the Impact of SMALLab on Student Leadership

Bobtown Elementary School's SMALLab creates leadership opportunities for students that are often unseen at home or in the classroom.
New Designs for School

The Six Ideas Taking Hold in Innovative San Diego Schools

This article looks at the common threads of personalized learning in schools local to San Diego.
Reimagining Assessment

Straight A’s Don’t Tell the Whole Story: In Support of K-12 Microcredentials

San Diego educators flip the script on college readiness with a K-12/university badging partnership​, providing legitimate signposts to students’ true skills.
Building Community

Educators Are Artists, Let's Act Like It!

The work of next generation learning in Colorado Springs School District 11 has some striking similarities to group painting excursions.
Enabling Change

Three Steps Toward Building Vista Unified's Three Brushstrokes

In 3 years, 100% of Vista Unified School District schools are transforming to Personal Learning pathways for all students. These 3 steps made it possible.
Reimagining Assessment

Assessment as an On-Ramp for Agency and Personalization

When reflection, relevance, and choice become core design principles for assessment, they are powerful on-ramps to student agency and personalized learning.
Why Schools Need to Change

Greatest Threat to Competency Based Learning Part II

Accountability systems, for the most part, do not reward meeting every student where they are and progressing them based on mastery. They should.