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Creating Future Ready Schools and Classrooms

Tom Murray

How can schools and districts systemically create a vision of teaching and learning that’s personal, authentic, relevant, and harnesses the power of technology? The Future Ready Frame work , a dynamic, research-based support for school leaders, created by Future Ready Schools?

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Aligning the 10 building blocks for future ready schools

Dangerously Irrelevant

A growing number of schools are recognizing that they must start transitioning their learning environments toward deeper learning, greater student agency, more authentic work, and robust technology infusion. One of the themes of my InnEdCO Leadership Academy keynote this year is the idea that there are multiple paths to future ready schools.

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Just Announced: FREE Future Ready Schools Institutes

Tom Murray

As many readers of my blog know, I serve as the Director of Innovation for Future Ready Schools® , a project of the Alliance for Excellent Education , located in Washington, D.C. All for the kids we serve, Director of Innovation, Future Ready Schools. What’s great about these events? Together, we can do this!

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Facing the future through Future Ready

eSchool News

In Part I of this series, I reflected on the journey that led Follett Learning to Future Ready Librarians® and why the time has never been better for librarians to transform their programs using Future Ready tools. . Where are you on your Future Ready journey?

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New Education Policy Roadmap Aims to Ensure High School Graduates in Every State are ‘Future-Ready’

eSchool News

CHICAGO – Parents and educators agree that a key goal of K-12 education is to ensure that students are “future-ready”—with the knowledge, skills, and drive to navigate their careers and lives. Access the full report: Educating Future-Ready Students: Bridging Social and Emotional Learning and Career and Workforce Development.

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10 Tips for Instructional Technology Coaches

The CoolCatTeacher

The best Instructional Technology Coaches are partners, culture leaders, encouragers, and easy to work with, says Dr. Katie Ritter. She covers ten essential points for being a successful education technology coach based on her research and her personal coaching of instructional technology coaches and teachers.

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Are you a Future Ready Librarian?

eSchool News

And for the last five years, I’ve been a district administrator, including almost two years as chief digital officer overseeing IT and educational technology operations for a district of nearly 24,000 students. Despite seeing glasses as half-full, I will acknowledge that not all school librarians are Future Ready.