Creating systemic change? There is no app for that
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Month: January 2014
Five inspiring teachers we met this year
For over 90 years Scholastic has valued the importance of teachers and their positive impact on their students, Scholastic blogs. To continue celebrating and supporting teachers we wanted…
How London’s failing schools became the best in the world
In what must rank as a remarkable turnaround by anyone’s standards, failing schools once judged to be some of the worst in the UK have been hailed as…
Chancellor at University of California to become chief at Gates Foundation
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has tapped Susan Desmond-Hellmann, chancellor of the University of California, San Francisco, as the next chief executive of the giant charitable organization,…
Five basic — but misinterpreted — keys to creating a cool classroom culture
If the school you work in or your child goes to doesn’t help teachers maintain what many authors and experts have identified as the five aspects of classroom…
Schools sign up for ‘Hour of Code’
The Hour of Code is an initiative that asks students, teachers, parents, and schools to introduce students to computer programming during Computer Science Education Week (CSEdWeek), Dec. 9-15,…
Research-based games help make learning fun again
Young children are naturally curious, and one of the main ways they learn is through play. Yet, when they arrive at school, too often this sense of play…
Are these 8 trends the future of K-12?
In a recent blog I wrote for Wired, I discussed Jack Uldrich’s book, Jumping the Curve. Essentially, it suggests that the best entrepreneurs, innovators, and visionaries are those…
Teaching isn’t rocket science. It’s harder.
One of the biggest misconceptions about teaching is that it is a single job, writes Ryan Fuller for Slate.