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It’s Time for The Next Big Advance: Comparable Growth Measures

The most important next step in the shift to personal digital learning is the need for comparable growth measures for individ...

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CEOs Want Hard-Working Decision-Making Team Players

A survey of chief executives indicates that 92% say education is very or the most important national competitiveness issue. ...

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EdTech 10: PD and Pilgrims

When you’re the parent of a 5 year old, you hear lots of jokes. Maybe you’ve heard this one - “If April Showers bring M...

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Think Outside the Box for Las Vegas Schools

The Getting Smart team led a school design workshop for The Executive Leadership Academy, hosted by The Public Education Foun...

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Making Tech Work for Kids and Teachers

Advances in technology in the classroom often focus on how it is improving teaching and not learning. Why don't we invite stu...

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3 Tech Design Solutions for Students

In our recent paper, “Designing the Future of Learning,” we ask the question: Why do so many proposed solutions focus on adults instead of kids? Designing solutions for students requires seeking out a different type of future. We believe that the future of learning for students will bend to six trends. In this blog...

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Begin Your Technology Treasure Map

Achievement hunters around the nation are using corners of the technology treasure map to find value for their students. Yet, only a few of us treasure hunters out there have seen the maps that lead to real booty.

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Deliverables for Digital Learning in 2012

My friends tease me all the time in social conversation when I drop the word deliverable. It must be the old Baldrige trainer in me, but I am always curious as to who is responsible for what and when. Moreover, I often ponder these days whether there is a digital option to how we learn, work, and play.

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4 Steps for Governors to Turn a State Virtual School Into Services Provider

Who will be the first Governor with the guts to turn their state virtual school into a virtual services provider? The services could be virtual district/school incubation, professional development, light virtual services, and consulting (coaching and training). Work with the legislature could re-organize the funding st...

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Resolve to Read In 2012: 27 Educational Must-Reads

Great leaders read. It really is that simple. They don’t allow the mundane and the stress of requirements to dominate all of their time. Find any great leader in any industry and ask them a simple question – What have you read in the last 12 months?

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Compass Learning provides educational software that empowers educators to unlock the potential of every student by making learning personal. We serve nearly 8,000 schools and millions of students across the United States.

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Fuel for Great Schools: Outcomes, Measures, and Supports

New York Times writer, Stephanie Saul, occupied Wall Street this morning by bashing online education once again to “sell readership” for the paper. The New York Times loves to stir the corporate greed vs. “poor old” schools play, but the reality is we have great schools and terrible schools in both the face-to...

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New and Old Schools Are “Great by Choice”

When I travel, I frequently take a book with me to read and reflect on my experiences through the lens of stories, metaphors, and anecdotes that apply to my work. This week’s blog explores, Great By Choice, from the phenomenal mind of Jim Collins. I had a chance to dig into the work during a recent visit to the Depar...

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