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Virtual Mentorship for Emerging Leaders

The CoolCatTeacher

I started this program in the summer of 2017. So whether it’s elementary or district leadership or high school leadership, and they have these organic one-on-one conversations outside of their brick-and-mortar buildings, and outside their own (mentorship). Jody: We started in August of this year, so August 2017.

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Today’s Classrooms Should Be About Flexible Teaching—Not Furniture

Edsurge

At the end of June a group of passionate, dedicated educators gathered for one of New Jersey’s last EdCamps of the 2017 school year. And how many elementary and middle schoolers do you see hanging out at Starbucks?) I bounced around a few sessions but settled into one called “Flexible Furniture.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Sante Fe University of Art and Design will close at the end of the 2017–2018 school year. " It’s lovely to see the big innovation from the MOOC startups in 2017 involves the learning management system. Via CMX : “ How Edcamp Scaled Up 1,500 Community Events Connecting Educators All Over the World.”