If What You’re Doing Isn’t Working, It’s Time to Switch Schools What Kids Need to Succeed at School What Should the Learning Experience Look Like? Alternative School Options Focus on Your Concerns to Decide What’s Right for You Navigate the Switch with Clear Next Steps Cut the Cord from Public School Without Breaking the Bank
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When we consider taking a vacation, we often make plans to visit our national parks. Whether it is the nostalgia from family road trips growing up, or just a desire to escape our daily routine and reconnect with the outdoors, over 300 million Americans travel to the 429 units managed by the National Park Service across the United States
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The US is experiencing a boom in microschools. What are they?
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Entrepreneurship education programs help students develop a mindset or collection of skills that help them take risks, recognize opportunities, learn from mistakes, and better communicate. The Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship says entrepreneur education should be viewed as a key part of developing students’ career-readiness.
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Charter schools are popping up in struggling malls as landlords look for alternative tenants and communities seek to increase educational opportunities.
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The shift from print to digital is the most significant change in how human beings learn since the printing press. It marked a shift from information scarcity to abundance, a shift from searching to sorting. It changed what, how, and where people learn, and not always for the better. Social media feeds displaced newspapers, YouTube
Can a school really make a dramatic difference to a student? This teacher from The Sycamore School certainly feels that it does in experience and reflections on school fit.
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Forging connections between young learners and older people can strengthen SEL skills like empathy and community building – 3 ways students and older adults can build bridges with intergenerational learning.
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Micro schools, rooted in a tradition of cooperative and small-scale learning, are envisioned to become diverse, sustainable, and impactful alternatives within the educational landscape. To better amplify, evaluate and develop these learning models, Getting Smart Collective ran the Big Push for Small Schools grant opportunity earlier this year and we’re thrilled to announce that ten
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Kids and teens are growing up in a media maelstrom. “We’re handing kids these devices and they can reach anyone at any time, and anyone can reach them at any time,” Erin McNeill, founder and CEO of the national advocacy group Media Literacy Now, says. “And what kind of guidance have we given them? Almost none.”
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These simple strategies can help motivate middle and high school students to have engaging and productive classroom discussions.
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