Giving a voice to teacher-leaders, administrators, and students doing amazing things
As a keynote speaker at last week’s ThinkSpace event, I recognized that personalized learning isn’t just possible, it is happening. Being around so many educators committed to building and refining the relationship between teachers and students was electric. Individuals Read More …
Heading into Day 2 of the Tri-Association Educator’s Conference in Guadalajara, Mexico! It’s already been an incredible experience and we’re only in Pre-Conferences! What is the Tri-Association? The Association of American Schools of Central America, Colombia, Caribbean and Mexico seeks Read More …
Allison Zmuda recaps her two-session day presenting at the School Administrators of Iowa Conference! “The great takeaway of the day for me: students crave authenticity and the kind of work that we give them absolutely matters. So keep designing bold, Read More …
I am excited to present two sessions tomorrow at the School Administrators or Iowa (SAI) Annual Conference, Re-Imagine. I hope to meet some of the speakers who will be at the conference, and am looking forward to seeing the opening keynoter Read More …
One of the primary challenges with today’s curriculum is that it focuses on the past instead of the future. How will students grow if they are focused on outdated material? A curriculum quest sets out to solve that problem through Read More …
Personalization, personalized learning, and personalized mastery learning have been used to describe a vast range of initiatives, ideas, and platforms over the past few years — it has become the “next big thing” to reform education. Aveson Charter Schools opened Read More …
Guest Post: Parag Joshi — Lead Teacher of Truth Academy at Manchester High School, Manchester, CT The charge of the anthropologist to “make the strange familiar and the familiar strange” always struck me as profoundly important in loosening up the Read More …
The 70th Annual ASCD Conference held in Houston truly inspired me (as it does each year I am able to attend). Ideas about personalizing learning and incorporating student voice, developing student inquiry, and creating a risk-taking environment continue to inform Read More …