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Next Gen Science Standards 101

The Institute for Science and Math Education at the University of Washington recently offered a crash course on the Next Gene...

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DragonBox: This Is How You Gamify

DragonBox develops a user’s fundamental skills in algebra before teaching its context and application.

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Know Think Do

For John Danner, learning can be thought about in three parts: the need to know things, how to solve problems, and how to be ...

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Celebrating MOUSE: 15 Years of Engaging Kids, Narrowing Divide

MOUSE celebrated their 15th Anniversary on May 20th with a student led exhibit demonstrating the latest technologies and by h...

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Charter School Authorizing 2.0

Within the richness and diversity of the ed reform sector, the practice of charter school authorizing isn’t the trendiest. ...

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Part 2: Independent Learners Require First Independent Teaching

Yesterday I tackled the debate of student performance as a measure of teacher effectiveness. Here’s why performance-based pay for teachers as an approach to teacher effectiveness runs counter to every meaningful definition of personalized education.

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Part 1: To Personalize Learning, First Personalize Teaching

The irony is hardly lost on anyone when at education-related professional conferences educators sit in the audience as experts lecture them about how to teach as a guide-on-the-side rather than a sage-on-the stage. A “do-as-I-say-not-as-I-do” moment that often has even the lecturer chuckling.

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Teachers Should Have the Option of Working in Teacher-Led Schools

Ted Kolderie told me about teacher-led schools 2000. He convinced me to visit Minnesota New Country School (MNCS) where teachers had created an innovative project-based and fully individualized school -- and they were in charge.

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