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I’m back, but no Friday News Roundup this week. June is always a slow news month when it comes to public education, schools, and learning, but I did read an article this week that piqued my interest about the importance of mentoring, no matter what professional pursuit you engage in. The article, appearing in EducationWeek…

Most traditional school districts hate open enrollment. Open enrollment invites change, and most traditional school districts hate change. Campus budgets are set based on the number of kids enrolled in a certain school. School attendance boundaries allow for each campus to predict what those budgets will look like each year. Allowing families to choose what…

It used to be teachers left traditional public schools to start their own charter schools. That’s how KIPP started, along with other high-performing, and low-performing for that matter, charters across the country. Classroom teachers, who became fed up with the dysfunctional, inequitable places called public schools, left the traditional system and created new learning organizations.…

It used to be teachers left traditional public schools to start their own charter schools. That’s how KIPP started, along with other high-performing, and low-performing for that matter, charters across the country. Classroom teachers, who became fed up with the dysfunctional, inequitable places called public schools, left the traditional system and created new learning organizations.…

A good friend of mine asked me to write a column on what I thought of artificial intelligence (AI), schools, and the future. Now I’m the first to admit I’m not an authority on AI, so I had to do a bit of research to find out more about the topic. Just so happens Alyson…

One of the reasons traditional schools struggle with project-based learning, especially on the secondary level, is that their entire system is built around content-driven curriculum instead of interdisciplinary. But if you pay attention to how young learners like to learn, most of them naturally navigate to learning based on some type of project. In fact,…

An interesting article appeared earlier this year in the Harvard Business Review. Written by Matt Mayberry, a former NFL linebacker and internationally acclaimed keynote speaker and global expert in leadership, cultural change, and organizational performance, “You Don’t Need to Be ‘the Boss’ to Be a Leader” got me thinking about what learning would look like…

“The world is our classroom.” That was our motto when we opened a personalized learning lab school in the Houston, Texas Museum District. 50 young learners benefited from building their reading, writing, problem-solving, and character development skills by immersing themselves into a community of learners – those who worked and visited six diverse museums within…