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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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Profession(al) Development
The teaching profession as we know it is changing. It is time to redefine the way we think about developing the profession it...
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Three Ring: Bringing Qualitative Work into Focus
Rescue forgotten student work from the bottom of backpacks or hidden in endless stacks of binders—everything is organized s...
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Portfolio Provider Pathbrite Lands Another $4 Million
Pathbrite, announced today that it has completed a $4 Million ...
2 months ago by Tom Vander Ark
Leadership
Will Common Core State Standards Accelerate or Slow Innovation?
Some friends are working on a paper on the topic of common standards and innovation. The primary question is how and whether the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) will accelerate or slow innovation.
5 months ago by Tom Vander Ark
Learning
NRC Report Highlights Importance of Deeper Learning
While the NRC definition of deeper learning purportedly shifts from "21st century skills" to broader "21st century competencies" including skills, knowledge, and expertise, the definition seems accurate - but a bit shallow.
9 months ago by Getting Smart Staff
Learning
Curriculum Associates: Leveraging For-profit Power With a Nonprofit Purpose
For-profit giants are often viewed with skepticism in education. Nonprofits generally focus on impact but move at a slower pace and struggle to raise donations to fund growth. Is there there a better model?
10 months ago by Getting Smart Staff
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Webinar: The Comprehensive Assessment Consortia
Two state consortia—Partnership for the Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers and the SMARTER Balanced Assessment Consortium—are hard at work putting ambitious designs in place for new assessment systems. They have released materials and will soon select contractors to build assessments and the infrastruc...
one year ago by Getting Smart Staff
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Digital Learning Now! is a national campaign to advance policies that will create a high quality digital learning environment to better prepare students with the knowledge and skills to succeed in college and careers.
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New Survey Shows Demand for Personalized & Adaptive Learning Assessments
The Northwest Evaluation Association (NWEA) and Grunwald Associates LLC released today "For every child, multiple measures," a study that evaluates parent and teacher support for timely, actionable assessments that monitor individual student performance.
one year ago by Getting Smart Staff
Learning
The Curse of the #2 Pencil: The Standardized Testing Debate
Standardized testing in American education is not new. According to a 2009 Time article, this type of testing can be traced back to at least 1905. The shear number of standardized tests is daunting.
one year ago by Phil Ryan
