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Khan Academy to offer Free SAT Prep
Last week, the College Board announced not only that the SAT will be redesigned for 2016, but that it has formed a partnership with Khan Academy to offer free SAT prep materials. According to the Khan Academy website, students taking the SAT in 2014–2015 can visit the site now to find hundreds of questions from unreleased SATs and […]
Read MoreSuccessful Innovation Starts with Finding the Right Points of Integration
As we consider the potential of various innovations in our education system, it is helpful to look at that system through the lens of system architecture. A system’s architecture determines its constituent components and subsystems and defines how they must fit and work together. In any system, components work together through interfaces, and these interfaces […]
Read MoreResearch Suggests Professional Development Delivers Better Student Scores
When teachers participate in professional development, students do better in assessments. That’s the conclusion of a study undertaken by researchers at the University of Utah and Brigham Young University. In “Multi-State, Quasi-Experimental Study of the Impact of Internet-Based, On-Demand Professional Learning on Student Performance,” the researchers examined math and reading scores for students before and after teachers in […]
Read MoreBlended Learning Implementation Guide by DLN
Leading for Deeper Learning: Ten Proven Strategies
The following article is written by Tom Vander Ark from Getting Smart Over the summer we interviewed two dozen school and network leaders producing strong academic results and developing powerful young people. Considering their leadership stories, we found ten things in common: Good goals. Good schools have good goals; they use a variety of strategies to personalize […]
Read MoreEmail Options for NCCSA Schools
Please forward this to the person at your ministry who handles matters of technology and communication. Effective communication and technology tools are needed more than ever in the K-12 setting. As you might have heard, more technology is being moved to the “cloud.” Basically, this means that large buildings off site store data such as […]
Read MorePersonalized Learning Will Go Mainstream
The following article is by the Bill Gates Foundation Deputy Director, Stacey Childress, and appeared in EdSurge 2014 Outlook. At the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation we envision a future in which students’ learning experiences will be markedly different than they are today in several ways: 1. On any day of the year, students will be able to […]
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