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A Simple Guide to Adopting a New Curriculum

Education Elements

As more and more high-quality instructional materials (HQIM) become available, we have noticed a tension with districts across the country between being excited about the opportunities for new, rigorous materials, and the concern about when and how to get started.

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Coronavirus is poised to inflame inequality in schools

The Hechinger Report

Their students have internet connections at home, laptops they can work from, teachers who know how to design online lessons and a strong foundation of in-school blended learning experience. CoSN members have been turning to each other for advice and support about how to approach coronavirus and virtual learning.

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The Do’s and Don’ts of Bringing Personalized Learning Into Rural Schools

Edsurge

In a new report from Bellwether Education Partners, Principal Jennifer Schiess and I argue that there is an opportunity for rural schools to explore how personalized learning can help resolve rural education’s challenges.

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The Biggest Challenge to Personalized Learning is Getting Buy-In

Edsurge

For comprehensive personalized learning implementation, a superintendent will consider communication plans, professional development calendars, infrastructure improvements and perhaps even requested legal exemptions for policies such as seat time.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” The task force, put together by Entangled Solutions , includes “25 members from think tanks (including education policy wonk Rick Hess from the American Enterprise Institute), colleges (University of Texas), coding bootcamps (Galvanize), investment banking (Tyton Partners), and accounting firms (Ernst & Young).”