Alex Rappaport was thrilled to see a fifth-grade student pitch her 'Retractable Heel' to a packed room,a culmination of Big Idea Week, his collaboration with Dumbo Improvement District. He shares his inspiring story.
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Alex Rappaport was thrilled to see a fifth-grade student pitch her 'Retractable Heel' to a packed room,a culmination of Big Idea Week, his collaboration with Dumbo Improvement District. He shares his inspiring story.
Piedmont City School District in Alabama provides students in grades 4-12 with a laptop and home Internet, and it's transforming lives of this hard-hit town. Its inspiring story is setting a new precedent in education, read it here.
Edsurge and Digital Promise present the first annual Digital Innovation in Learning Awards. Entries close October 1, and are open to global applicants all all levels of education. Apply or nominate the best education, edtech and administrative innovators here.
Online teaching comes with connectivity challenges.
They had set sights on 320 seventh- and eighth-graders enrolling in a new program, but with 400 enrolments and more coming, Valley High School assistant Principal Cindy Berger says their hard work to implement a new vision is already a success. Bailey Loosemore tells the school's inspiring story here.
What is "bang for buck" in the context of school teaching? And does it matter? An "Efficiency Index" study by education consulting firm GEMS Education Solutions looked at PISA test results from 30 OECD countries and discovered "efficiency scores" were not necessarily related to spend per teacher. Joy Resmovits explains here.
Sean Cavanagh, Education Week assistant editor, discovers US companies looking to maximise the effectiveness of school surveys. Read here how fast feedback for teachers is driving change.
Could a consensus operation model work in every school? John Tulenko from Learning Matters visits Mission Hill School to see how it works. Watch this bold story.
Stanford psychology Professor Carol Dweck says learners divide into two mindsets: fixed or growth. Advanced learning facilitator Kristin Mak looks at what this means for teachers and parents of learners.
It may have started as a love of drawing on a blackboard, but it turned into a profession where she could use all her skills. Teacher Teresa Milligan shares her inspirational story here.
