eSchool News

JANUARY 10, 2019

The current toolbox for growing the school/family partnership is broken. This leaves the support and synergy between home and school less than optimal in most situations. Acknowledge that old mental models exist. All schools struggle to deepen their partnerships with families.

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Edsurge

MAY 24, 2018

Emerging school models are supposed to ease the transition to personalized and blended instruction—or at least make it possible. But new ways of teaching like station rotation and fluid-schedule flex models can hit a snag when they run up against the familiar one-teacher-one-classroom setup.

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Edsurge

JULY 19, 2023

At a time when school districts are spending money on edtech like never before, it’s perhaps natural that some educators would be skeptical about both the pace and enthusiasm behind it. public schools raise questions about whether curricula and edtech are staying culturally relevant. That's why I'm also their cheerleader.”

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 6, 2019

This post is a review of Learning Transformed: 8 Keys to Designing Tomorrow’s Schools, Today by Eric Sheninger and Tom Murray. There is lots of value in this book and a great deal of information that validates what we know about good leadership and strong school organizations. My short recommendation? What I liked about the book.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 8, 2016

That’s a big problem that is slowing change in college teaching, argued Wind, a professor of marketing at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School and one of the organizers of the conference. The mental model of the traditional classroom is obsolete,” he told the crowd of college technology leaders. “It

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