Category: Learnings

Last week Educated Reimagined released an interview with Marc Porter Magee, CEO of 50Can and Dr. Felicia Cumings Smith, President and CEO of the National Center for Families Learning (NCFL), focused on a recent 50-state survey of 20,000 parents. Parent attitudes regarding their children’s learning, including those choices their young learners and their families make…

Microschool enrollment is increasing across America. A microschool is a small, flexible learning environment that blends personalization with a community of learners that offers a tailored, student-centered learning atmosphere. The 74 highlighted the increased attention toward microschools in an online article last week: “Kara Fox did not want to wait. A mom of two, she…

As young learners and their coaches become more familiar with artificial intelligence and how AI can assist and impact their learning, it’s still troubling that too many K-12 districts are committed to banning not only AI, but also cellphones and social media. The BIG Questions Institute published an online article last week discussing five trends…

Today we discuss homeschooling on a couple of fronts. First, to continue our focus on anywhere learning, Vermont’s North Branch Nature Center has designed a learning program targeted for those homeschooled young learners. For more than a decade, this nature center has helped thousands of public school students throughout Central Vermont immerse themselves in nature…

Is a learning organization successful if it increases its academic performance while losing enrollment? Maybe that learning organization is improving performance because of lost enrollment? This is the case with the Houston Independent School District. HISD reports a decline in enrollment of 168,400 students in the 2025-26 school year, a loss of 4.7%. Back in…

Great teachers are trapped inside a bad model. Most are unable to create an exemplary learning environment for their young learners because the districts they work for dominate learning time with mediocre curriculum, predictable pacing guides, and simplified lesson plans. If that’s not bad enough, great teachers are underpaid, unappreciated, and, for the most part,…

Warren Buffett resigned as Berkshire Hathaway’s Chief Executive Officer December 31, 2025, after 60 years of leading the massive multinational conglomerate holding company. In an article posted on December 18th in The Atlantic online, the answer to how Buffett was able to amass over $160 billion in his career was five-fold: “An alert, quick, accurate,…

The American K-12 system has always been suspicious of play-based learning. Too many adults, in K-12 leadership positions, dismiss play-based learning as wasteful time, time that can be used more productively by exposing young learners to state- and district-approved curriculum. Play-based learning is an educational approach where children learn essential cognitive, social, emotional, and physical…

When we opened our personalized learning lab school almost ten years ago now, we talked a lot about GREAT Learning. GREAT was an acronym that stood for: Growth, Relationships, Empowerment, Anytime/Anywhere, and Technology. Today the focus is on technology. It seems ed tech is being criticized from every angle these days. Cell phones, social media,…

EducationWeek (12/12/25) announced their 2025 “Word of the Year” was “dismantle.” According to the education news outlet, “Education is largely governed by states, and federal funding makes up about 10 cents for every dollar K-12 schools spend. So shifts in federal bureaucracy seem to pale compared to actions on the state and local level.” “But…