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| Dec 6, 2023 | Agile Evolutionary Group Announces Innovative Partnership with Empowering ED | Michael Conner Ed.D. leads Agile Evolutionary Group as it partners with Empowering ED to amplify voices in education. MIDDLETOWN, CONNECTICUT, UNITED STATES, December 6, 2023 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Agile Evolutionary Group (AEG), a trailblaz... |
| Nov 3, 2023 | Unlocking Skills: What Learners and Employers Need to Know About Microcredentials | Digital badges, microcredentials and digital credentials… What sets them apart, or are they synonymous? Essentially, these credentials share a few attributes: They are skill-specific and emphasize industry-relevant competencies. Moreover, t... |
| Jun 13, 2022 | New Small Community Based Schools Have Big Implications | Gem Prep Gem Prep |
| Jun 25, 2021 | How The Pandemic Has Widened The Opportunity Gap And How NPOs Can Aim To Close It | Byron Sanders, President & CEO of Big Thought, an organization creating creators for a 21st century world. |
| Apr 3, 2021 | New Changemaking Strategy Energizes Real World Learning In Kansas City | Kansas CityTom Vander Ark |
| Feb 26, 2021 | 5 emerging smart industries in 2021 | Though almost all businesses use technology to some degree, some take it to new heights by creating an entire smart industry. With the COVID-19 pandemic as a leading factor that’s forcing change, 2021 will solidify five main smart industrie... |
| Feb 9, 2021 | How Systems And States Can Encourage More And Better Project-Based Learning | Napa Junction Elementary, a New Tech Network school Tom Vander Ark |
| Feb 3, 2021 | The Two Most Important Things We Don’t Teach | Energy Lab at Hawai‘i Preparatory Academy Tom Vander Ark |
| Jan 29, 2021 | School Cancellations Continue To Hurt Kids, Pushing More Parents To DIY Options | Seventh grade students follow instructions online by tutor Robin Lorch from a laptop computer placed ... [+] on a ladder in a home garage on August 27, 2020 in Calabasas, California. - As parents across the United States come to terms with ... |
| Jan 13, 2021 | What’s The EdTech Vaccine? 10 Design Principles | EdTech Photo by Julia M Cameron from Pexels |
| Jan 4, 2021 | How Digital Transformation In Oil And Gas Will Put Houston On The Map As A Tech Hub | 112 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
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What do the Astros, NASA and Beyoncé have in common? They are all out of this world yet call Houston home.
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| Jan 4, 2021 | How Portable Learning Records Will Unlock Education And Employment Opportunities | Portable Learning Courtesy of Dallas County Promise |
| Jan 4, 2021 | How Digital Transformation In Oil And Gas Will Put Houston On The Map As A Tech Hub | 9 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
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What do the Astros, NASA and Beyoncé have in common? They are all out of this world yet call Houston home.
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Along with its biggest anchor, oil and gas... |
| Nov 30, 2020 | Invention Opportunity In Early Learning And Development | AppleTree Early Learning, Washington DC Tom Vander Ark |
| Nov 25, 2020 | Digital Credentials: A Better Way To Capture And Communicate Learning | Learner's Lifelong Learning JourneyBadgr.com |
| Nov 4, 2020 | Turning Dead Malls Into Community Assets | Photo by Daniil Kuželev on UnsplashDaniil Kuželev |
| Nov 2, 2020 | We Build Boring Schools, Then We Put Them Online--Science Has The Fix | Bulldog Tech, Evergreen School District Tom Vander Ark |
| Oct 30, 2020 | Human Work: Learn Stuff Computers Can’t Do | Learner OutcomesAltitude Learning |
| Oct 14, 2020 | Pandemic Opportunity: Rethink Education Accountability | Students taking a test. Museums Victoria |
| Sep 16, 2020 | 15 Invention Opportunities In Learning | NuVu Studio, CambridgeTom Vander Ark |
| Aug 4, 2020 | Microschools Meet The Moment | Students in classroom at Prenda SchoolsCourtesy Prenda Schools |
| Jul 27, 2020 | Active Learning: The Secret To El Paso’s Success | Active dual language learning in a 9th-grade physics class at El Paso High. Tom Vander Ark |
| Jul 18, 2020 | A Path To Higher Education And Employment For Refugees | Global Education Movement (GEM), SNHU Chrystina Russell |
| Jul 15, 2020 | How New Tech Schools Jumpstarted El Paso’s Education Transformation | Classroom in EPISD Tom Vander Ark |
| Jun 16, 2020 | Students Earn AA Degrees And Job Offers As Grads From IBM Supported High Schools | IBM ChicagoTom Vander Ark |
| Mar 24, 2020 | Hard Reset: What Will Be New Post Pandemic | Acton Academy: a global network of microschools Tom Vander Ark |
| Mar 17, 2020 | Distance Learning During The Coronavirus Pandemic: Equity And Access Questions For School Leaders | Educational equity was already elusive. How can leaders forced to consider distance learning as the ... [+] primary mode of education during the coronavirus pandemic do this without making these inequities worse? Getty |
| Mar 11, 2020 | Competency Tracking Tools Are Overdue | Many schools are still using spreadsheets and data walls to track important student outcomes. Tom Vander Ark |
| Jan 21, 2020 | Show What You Know: A Parent’s Guide To The Global Shift To Competency | |
| Oct 7, 2019 | How ‘Learning Experience Design’ Helps Customize Online Courses at Scale | In keeping with the school’s long held tradition, the faculty at Boston College takes a “whole person” approach to education, helping students explore their intellectual, emotional, and spiritual development. Today’s faculty is also tasked ... |
| Sep 4, 2019 | Our Picture of School Innovation Is Incomplete. Can It Be Fixed? | Call to mind some of the dominant narratives about school innovation and chances are a fairly predictable picture emerges. It’s not hard to conjure up a charter school launched anew in California or perhaps Chicago with students working thr... |
| Jan 22, 2019 | It’s 2019. So Why Do 21st-Century Skills Still Matter? | When tech giant Amazon announced its search for a second headquarters site, cities across the country scrambled to produce persuasive pitches. In Loudoun County, Virginia, fourth-graders from Goshen Post Elementary School took up the challe... |
| Nov 27, 2017 | What Does It Take to Create Diverse Schools? Meet the Pioneers Making It Happen | Despite progress in integrating American schools following the Brown v. Board of Education ruling in 1954 and the Civil Rights Act of 1964, U.S. schools are less diverse today than in the 1960s. But as schools have grown more homogenous, ou... |
| Nov 27, 2017 | What Does It Take to Create Diverse Schools? Meet the Pioneers Making It Happen | Despite progress in integrating American schools following the Brown v. Board of Education ruling in 1954 and the Civil Rights Act of 1964, U.S. schools are less diverse today than in the 1960s. But as schools have grown more homogenous, ou... |
| Jun 8, 2017 | How Achievement First is Creating an Interoperable Ecosystem | This case study was originally published on
Getting Smart
Achievement First operates a network of 32 high-performing college-preparatory, K-12 public charter schools in Connecticut, Rhode Island and New York City. In keeping with its name, ... |
| May 26, 2017 | On the Road to Interoperability with Denver Public Schools | This case study was originally published on
Getting Smart
With a student enrollment edging ever closer to six figures, Denver Public Schools (DPS) is Colorado’s largest school district. More than 4,300 teachers instruct students in elementa... |
| May 22, 2017 | Lessons Learned While Creating Long Lasting Change in Providence Public Schools | This case study was originally published on Getting Smart.
As the largest school district in Rhode Island, Providence Public Schools makes up 25% of the state’s entire elementary and secondary student population. Nearly 1,900 teaching and l... |
| May 8, 2017 | Is Meaning Lost When Data Is Exported? Why Reasoning Mind Takes a 'Wait And See' Approach | If you take data out of context, does it lose its meaning? This question constantly plagues Steven Gaudino, VP of Product Management at Reasoning Mind.
The Houston-based nonprofit organization develops online blended learning programs that ... |
| Apr 24, 2017 | Data Sharing Hasn’t Been a Concern for Most Newsela Customers—But Super Users Want More | Improving how student data is shared across systems has been a slowly evolving concern for Newsela since its launch in 2013. The New York City-based startup offers a reading tool that lets students read nonfiction and news articles at diffe... |
| Apr 4, 2017 | Beyond Technology: Blended Learning Conference Debates Equity, Cultural Inclusion | For a conference named after “blended learning,” many attendees were surprised to learn that they did not agree on what the term meant.
Dr. Dallas Dance, Superintendent of Baltimore County Public Schools, was among the first to raise this d... |
| Feb 6, 2017 | ‘Learn’-Launching the 2017 Edtech Conversation With Cautious Optimism | Edtech gatherings that attract more than 1,000 attendees, such as LearnLaunch’s Across Boundaries Conference last week in Boston, are usually echo chambers of hubbub and hoopla about technology’s potential to transform education.
Yet throug... |
| Jul 3, 2016 | How to Connect Data to Effect Meaningful Change | The Pitfalls of End-of-Level Testing
High stakes end-of-level testing is nigh-ubiquitous in American society. Its roots can be traced back to the 1990s when Congress reauthorized Johnson’s Elementary and Secondary Education Act. The Improvi... |
| Oct 2, 2015 | What the White House Press Corp Didn’t Ask About Arne Duncan’s Resignation | The 3:30pm ET press conference on October 2 was billed as “President Obama Makes a Personnel Announcement and Answers Questions.” The questions raised by the press, however, were not pertinent to the big news.For Further EdSurge Coverage:
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| Sep 8, 2015 | Three Tips to Pump Up Student Voice in Your Classroom | Hear this: Teachers everywhere are looking for ways to amplify their students’ voices in classrooms that are increasingly test-based. Developing student voice—or finding the capacity for students to recognize and express their own beliefs—c... |
| Jun 23, 2015 | Tom Vander Ark: Why Private Capital Wins Out Over Philanthropy in the Game of Innovation | Tom Vander Ark has worn many education hats over the years. He’s been a superintendent, worked for the Gates Foundation, and served as a finance guy for a startup. But more recently, he’s got street cred as CEO of Getting Smart and Partner ... |
| May 27, 2015 | The Power of Personalized Learning for School Improvement | Personalized learning is on the rise in the American classroom, but let’s be honest: much of the interest has been driven by hope, wishful thinking, and platitudes about the needs of “digital natives.”
But now, with over half a decade of on... |
| May 10, 2015 | Finding Your Sweet Spot: The Honeycomb Approach to Personalized Learning | As any educator will tell you, personalizing learning can be pretty messy when you get up close. Ideas and practices overlap—it’s nearly impossible to tackle one without touching another—and the work itself can be both overwhelming and exhi... |
| Feb 27, 2015 | What It Takes to Build the Next Edtech Hotspot | New York’s Economic Development Corporation (NYEDC) recently asked the local edtech community to share ideas for ways to build a vibrant edtech ecosystem in the city. The agency is beginning to see edtech’s potential as an engine for econom... |
| Aug 22, 2014 | With MBA/MA program, Johns Hopkins and MICA get creative | The left-brain right-brain divide is bunk. And a Baltimore graduate program is celebrating that.
“We have people who have worked in the military, nonprofits, startups, started their own company, worked for huge corporations,” said Julie Bui... |
| Aug 14, 2014 | Ed-tech platform Desire2Learn raises $85M | Desire2Learn will use the funding to build out predictive models, and to expand internationally
If I ever wind up having kids, I'm pretty sure that the school that they go to will look nothing like it did when I was child. Technology i... |
| Apr 27, 2014 | What Happened at ASU-GSV..... | More so than most any other education technology event, last week’s ASU-GSV Summit, which brought 2,000 entrepreneurs, investors and, yes, educators (there was a corps of 100) together at the Phoenician hotel, in Scottsdale, AZ, is a triath... |
| Jul 10, 2013 | Activate ED Showcases Education's Rock Stars | Education is no longer a walled garden, especially as it seeks to leverage expertise and technology from other industries to improve the teaching and learning process. So it makes sense to bring in talent from outside the traditional pipeli... |
| May 17, 2013 | ‘Don’t insist your company is without competition’ when pitching investors [Links] | Frank Adams’ three tips for your next VC pitch meeting [Baltimore Business Journal]: “Don’t insist your company is without competition.”
Digital Harbor: Baltimore Rising [Getting Smart]: “In Baltimore, [Andrew] Coy senses ‘an increased sens... |
| Mar 3, 2013 | SXSWedu Highlights: Maker education, databases of students, personalized learning | Howdy! EdSurge will be reporting from the grand ole state of Texas this week as SXSWedu rolls into action.
SXSWedu promises to be an amazing mashup of educators, entrepreneurism and plain old fun. Companies of all sizes are planning to use ... |
