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Why I Believe We Need to Redesign Schools Around Decision-Making

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So, in 2019, when I found out that a former manager of mine was starting a school that answered the same questions that plagued me, I knew I wanted in. As a founding school leader, I’ve helped design systems and a student-initiated promotion process that gives students a voice in their education. What Do You Want to Learn?

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Through Comedy Classes, Students Take ‘Big Swings’ for Mental Health

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Chris Gethard, a veteran comedian and improv teacher, posed this question to a group of high school students in Northern California at a Laughing Together workshop he was leading. “If you were an object, what object would you be?” He remembered one who identified as a fruit.

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What Can We Do About Chronic Absenteeism? Ask Detroit.

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Given the citys many attempts and failures to solve chronic absenteeism, is this problem unsolvable? Today, we have a situation where the Education Department is being dismantled, and programs for families at risk are threatened or already eliminated. Lenhoff: Its a really good question. What happens now?

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John King: ‘The Failure of National Leadership Is Being Visited Upon School Leaders’

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So again, the failure of national leadership is being visited upon school leaders who face this impossible dilemma. How do we help students pursue goals they’ve set for themselves and pursue questions they’ve identified as important to them. We know how important it is for kids academically and socio-emotionally.

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The Missing Tech Giant in Education Technology

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This article is part of a collection of op-eds from thought leaders, educators and entrepreneurs who reflect on the state of education technology in 2018, and share where it’s headed next year. Or one of its biggest, underreported failures? Those are questions to which my answers have varied, especially this year.

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The Failure of Fast Education

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We can question portfolio decisions in-depth. We can push the educational market to change their offerings to match placement needs. If there’s demand for a designer who has a certain set of skills, then vocational programs will educate students to have those skills. As leaders, we can control growth.

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Why I’m Optimistic About the Next Wave of Education Technology

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Over the past 25 years, multiple waves of education technology and innovation have slowly washed into America’s schools and colleges. Join me on a quick tour of the past quarter century in education technology history. Department of Education has researched and published an excellent National Education Technology Plan.