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Behind the Curtain of Flex Time
This blog first appeared on EdWeek’s Next Gen Learning in Action column. With all the interest in innovative school models, many schools are creating “flex time” periods during the day for students to increase student agency. We at Silicon Schools...
How an Injury Made Me a More Accessibility-Focused Digital Citizen
I’ve been fortunate to live most of my web-browsing life as an able-bodied person. I’ve never encountered any difficulties being able to find, see, and otherwise experience online content, which is crucial in an age where people are so likely to...
Seven Top Decisions For Leaders Scaling Innovation
This blog was originally posted on Education Next. Networks of schools across the country are increasingly using more personalized and blended learning strategies to create equitable access to high-quality instruction, increase student engagement...
Structure Helps Promote Student Agency
This blog first appeared on EdWeek’s Next Gen Learning in Action column. At Silicon Schools Fund we invest in schools that take new approaches to education. We recently wrote that many schools are starting to create flex time periods during the...
Getting Farther, Faster with Personalized Professional Learning
Photo courtesy of Allison Shelley/The Verbatim Agency for American Education: Images of Teachers and Students in Action (CC BY-NC 4.0). “I am a returning teacher after leaving my own classroom in 2003. So much has changed since I earned my teaching...
Great Leaders Make Great Schools. Here Are 4 Factors Critical to Their Success
This article was originally posted by The 74. My Twitter and social media channels were abuzz earlier this month with positive reactions to writer David Brooks’s New York Times column “Good Leaders Make Good Schools.” In education, it’s rare to see...
Innovative Times Call for Innovative Measures
The randomized control trial (RCT) is the best tool education researchers have for understanding cause and effect, but there are times - like in blended learning settings - when this research design is undesirable, infeasible, or both. As I have...
A Commons for Educator Learning
This blog was originally posted on Education Week. One of the most valuable yet scarcest resources we have in our school systems is teacher time. Inundated with countless demands – lesson planning, preparing materials, meeting with families, after...
The Learning Accelerator and Yet Analytics Launch the "Learning Commons"
March 13, 2018 (Princeton, NJ) — The Learning Accelerator (TLA) and Yet Analytics today announced the launch of the Learning Commons, a free, open site where educators can search for resources provided by different learning content providers,...
Personalizing Staff Development with Deeper Learning Week
The subject of passion projects in the workplace elicits mixed feelings among employers and employees. The concept gained momentum when Google created its “20% time” idea, providing employees the opportunity to spend 20% of their time focused on...
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