Are there scholarships for an Accredited Online School?
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Catalyzing the Future of Learning: How Public Seed Funding Drives EdTech Innovation and Scale
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How Montana is Advancing Rural Workforce Solutions
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Transforming Teaching: Mindsets That Move Us From Control to Agency
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Human-in-the-Loop Is Not a Buzzword: It’s a Teacher’s Job
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Why Institutions Must Fix Their Data Before AI Defines Them
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From Theory to Practice: How AI Is Quietly Reshaping College Admissions
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In Dallas, a Big Thought is Brewing About How Cities Can Help Their Children Grow
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Beyond the Grade: How One Stone’s Growth Framework Empowers Learners for Life
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Think & Make: Teen-Directed Innovation Training Scales in India
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Mapping a Path to Equity: How GIS and Mentorship Are Transforming STEM Access for Minority Youth
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Leading With Learning: A Webinar Series Full of Guidance for District Leaders
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In North Carolina, a Sea of Oxygen Bubbles — Spreading Across the State’s School Districts
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Why Evidence Is Everything in An AI World
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Clusters in Action: Building Pathway Ecosystems That Work
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How Educators Can Encourage Students to Harness their Passions to Become Sustainability Changemakers
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No Words Wasted: How AI and Voice Tech Are Elevating Learning Moments
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The Public Microschool Playbook: A New Actionable Guide for System Leaders
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The Reboot of Readiness: It’s Time to Take Action in Renovating CTE from the Ground Up
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Connection and Co-Regulation Precede Self-Management: A Common Sense Approach to Learning, Development and Discipline
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Harnessing Cross-Cutting Career Clusters to Prepare Learners for the Future of Work
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How Does Agency Shape Education? | A Conversation with Charles Fadel
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What is the Evolving Role of Future Educators?
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Leading in Uncertain Times
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State Education R&D: A Catalyst for Innovation, Continuous Improvement, and System Transformation
By Sarah Bishop-Root & Leslie Colwell What if a State Board of Education established a grant program to fund personalized,...
Lifelong Learning as Abundant Learning
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In Wisconsin, How Has A Rural Respite for Learning Become a Statewide Haven for Healing?
The landscape of Southeast Wisconsin feels like it belongs to another era. Wavy prairies and sentinel rows of Maple and...
Copying and Pasting Your Way to Critical Thinking
Consider for a moment the humble copy and paste function of your computing device. How many times per day do...
Reimagining ‘Where’ Learning Happens: Schools as Community Hubs within a Personalized Ecosystem
Throughout history, from apprenticeships to field studies, learning has always extended beyond the walls of a classroom. Think about how...
Students Aren’t Coming to School – Here’s What We Can Do About It
By: Kara Stern, Ph.D I recently spoke with a middle school principal in the lower Hudson Valley who challenged her...
Relationally Responsible Tech: Designing a Digital Future That Puts People First
What if, instead of asking what technology can do, we started by asking who we want to become? In an...
The Transcript Trap: Why Our Students Need Credentials, Not Just Grades
As education leaders, we’re not just preparing students for today; we’re preparing them for a future we can barely imagine....
From Chronic Absenteeism to the New Absenteeism: Five Profiles of Youth Engagement
By: Colleen Keating-Crawford, Michelle Jia, and Goutham Marimuthu School leaders, organizations and governments are sounding the alarm about chronically absent young people, typically defined as those...
CoSN 2025: With Human Leadership Comes Great Power, and Great Responsibility
What do you get when you put a lot of district-level technology professionals and edtech providers in a room? A...
How Can AI Fuel Deeper Learning? A Conversation with Kali Frederick and Aatash Parikh
It is the top of the second inning in the age of AI, and I think in the last few...
Transforming Public Education: A Blueprint for Learner-Centered Change
By Alan Cheng, High School Superintendent, NYC Public Schools Having spent two decades in New York City Public Schools, including...
Are Human Beings Necessary in the Life Cycle of Knowledge?
A few nights ago I spent 90 minutes online with the staff of an elite public school in Shenzhen, China....
In the City by the Sea, a Civic Upswing is Underway
If you arrive in Newport, Rhode Island via the long bridges from the mainland that stretch across Narragansett Bay, you...
More Options, More Opportunities: How AI Can Support High-Quality Learning for All
By: Michael Ham and Beth Holland The current administration has prioritized expanding school choice, reflecting a growing demand for flexible...
Should Courses Be Broken Up into Learning Experiences? Smaller Grain Size Increases Flexibility and Transparency
In a recent design session with a partner, we debated the merits of the grain size of reporting and learning...
Breaking the Math Mold: How Self-Directed Learners Are Becoming Math Masters
By Dr. Tyler Thigpen, Dr. Caleb Collier, and Trey Lackey “How do they learn math?” That might be the most...
Choosing Abundance Despite an Instinct for Scarcity
Humans default to a scarcity mindset — think early days of the pandemic when tens of thousands of people hoarded...
Tending Tomorrow’s Soil: Investing In Learning Ecosystems
Article By: Gregg Behr “Tending soil.” That’s how Fred Rogers described Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, his beloved television program that aired from 1968 to...
What’s the Status of Credentials? Digital Credentials Summit 2025
At 1EdTech’s 2025 Digital Credentials Summit in Phoenix, Arizona it was data, flow chart and taxonomy galore. For me, a...
Building Systems That Serve: The Power of the Getting Smart Innovation Framework
School and system redesign is not new. Throughout the history of formalized education, educators and leaders have challenged the “one-size-fits-all”...
How AI Supports Deeper Learning: Reflections from the AI K-12 Deeper Learning Summit
The future of education is deeper learning, and it’s powered by artificial intelligence. The branding is possibility. The vision (in...
Kentucky’s Learning Ecosystem in 2040: A Day in the Life
America’s education system was a groundbreaking effort to help a growing nation thrive in the 19th century. Now, 200 years...
How Resilient are New Pathways in a Changing Labor Market?
New Pathways has been a framework for us to unpack different school and community levers that can better set young...
Redefining Research in a Gen-AI Powered Classroom
I am so old that when I was an undergraduate student I used to visit the library to rifle through...
From Classroom to Career: How Deeply Embedding Career Clusters Can Help Bridge the Gap
Career Clusters are often narrowly associated with Career and Technical Education (CTE) programs. While CTE programs are undeniably crucial in...
5 Most Versatile Certifications for High School Students
By: Athena Kan Ever since kids were little, they’ve been asked, “What do you want to be when you grow...
Getting H3 Right: Critical Recommendations for Funders and Policymakers
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Academic Excellence Through The Arts and Experience
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Erin McNeill on Why We Need Media Literacy Now
We’ve been thinking a lot about whether or not schools are paying enough attention to teaching about media—what’s online, its...
Enhancing Education Through Transparency | Getting Smart
By: Anna Rita Pergolizzi-Wentworth School choice has become increasingly competitive. With so many schools to choose from, traditional factors such...
Uplift Education Launches Health Pathways
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6 Characteristics of an Education that Students Want
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Using Gen AI to Design, Implement, and Assess PBL
One of the most frequent questions I get during the generative AI professional development workshops I facilitate in the U.S....
Diving into the Evidence: Virtual and Hybrid Models as High-Quality School Choice Options
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Customizing Innovative Practices at Pinnacles Prep
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5 Obstacles (and Solutions) to Transforming School Systems for the 21st Century
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How AI is Changing Learning Goals
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Empowering Futures by Turning Electives into Meaningful Career Pathways
High school electives are often dismissed as “just for fun”—a break from core subjects, a chance to explore personal interests....
Honoring the Foundations of Educational Equity
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The Flight School: Reimagining the Path to Adulthood
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Your Public Library Is an Untapped Resource for Young Entrepreneurs
“Libraries have long supported small businesses. The Seattle Public Library is one of the two oldest business-supporting organizations (alongside the...
New Alternative Education Campus Works To Shift Student Learning Experiences
Like many terms in education, Alternative Education has been used to define any number of learning environments. For some, it’s...
Shifting to an H3 Mindset Starts With Believing in the Power of Students
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Linguistic Activism in Chefchaouen: Place-Based Learning with a Twist
By: Nicole Assisi When traveling for work and pleasure, I often share insights from the schools I visit, such as...
Creating Pathways to Confidence and Careers: The Impact of Peer Support on LGBTQIA+ Youth
By Valerie Grison-Alsop We are facing a mental health crisis in the U.S., especially among young people. According to a...
Flipping the Script: Hollywood’s Role in Changing Depictions of Learning Environments
Representation matters, especially in storytelling. It shapes our aspirations, influences the choices we make, and even alters how we perceive...
Agency for nine-month-olds? Yes! | Getting Smart
America’s education system was a groundbreaking effort to help a growing nation thrive in the 19th century. Now, 200 years...
Beyond The Experience: HBCUs Are Growing and Making an Impact
Historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) have recently seen an increase in enrollment, which contrasts with the overall reduction seen...
Keeping The Dream Alive in Education
As we honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on this day, we are reminded of his profound words: “The function...
A New Era of Public Education: Potential Scenarios for the Next Presidential Administration
By: Margo Roen With any presidential transition, there are shifts–new hires and resignations, policy changes, and funding changes to align...
Transforming Teaching in Ohio’s Largest School District
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WISE recognizes innovative projects from around the world
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Fostering Positive Mindsets Through Reflection
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Small Steps, Big Impact: Teaching Students to Address Global Challenges
By: Bonnie Nieves In 2015, the United Nations established the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a framework of 17 objectives designed...
How Teachers Can Orchestrate a Classroom Filled with AI Tools
Stanford’s Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence initiative recently released its Global AI Power Rankings. I doubt anyone is surprised that the U.S.,...
99 Problems: Why Time Spent Refining the Problem Space is a Critical Part of Entrepreneurial Mindset
By: Miranda Canniff This past summer was the 10th iteration of Nalukai Academy’s Summer Startup Camp for Hawai’i high school...
Catalyzing Educator & Student Agency through Community-Engaged Learning
America’s education system was a groundbreaking effort to help a growing nation thrive in the 19th century. Now, 200 years...
New in 2025 and What Edleaders Should Do About It
2025 will be a year of hyperchange and navigating in the gray. New technology boasts more opportunity and more risk...
Five Findings on How (and Whether) Schools Advise Students
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Integrating Place, Projects, and Profession to Build Purpose and Competency
Learning approaches are full of acronyms, and PBL holds the most comprehensive ownership over multiple approaches, representing personalized, place-based, project-based,...
Getting Started with a Learner-Driven Classroom: A Guide for Educators
By: Dr. Jacqueline Zweig and Dr. Kathryn Kennedy As dedicated K-12 education researchers, we spent the past two years immersed...
The Rise of AI Agents: More Time for Real-World Learning or the Era of Cognitive Laziness?
These days, it seems like nearly every topic finds its way back to AI, somehow. Because of the rapid rate...
What Should Citizenship Education and Assessment Actually Look Like?
On a recent episode of The Ezra Klein Show, Vivek Ramaswamy made the argument that all high school students should...
A New Infrastructure for Learning Credentials
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The Joy of Learning: A Core Principle for Success
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Supporting Students with Disabilities Through Changing Education Policies
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In Ohio, A Capital City Starts to Connect Its Own Dots
By: Sam ChaltainOf all the sciences, archaeology is the most destructive — and the most vital to the humanities. That’s...
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Will AI Flip the Role of the Classroom Teacher?
A study tour of two innovative schools in New England has led me to rethink my understanding of how AI...
Authentic Learning Experiences | Getting Smart
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Educator Roles as a Catalyst for Transformation
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One Goal, Two Journeys: The Role of Community and Workforce in Defining Graduate
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A New Operating System for Public Education: Learner-Centered Ecosystems
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Let High Schoolers Do Less? Let High Schoolers Experience More
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AI Can Help STEM Bridge Educational Disparities
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How We Lead the Change Is the Change: Horizon 3 Leadership
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Over the last five years, significant efforts emerged around the importance of durable or transferable skills. These durable skills (also...
Empowering Student Voice to Drive Change
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Libraries as Community Learning Hubs: Connecting Students to Degrees and Opportunity
“I was told that I may lose my job unless I went back to school and got my high school...
Make AI Literacy a Priority With These Free Resources
We’re 18 months into the age of human-computer interaction, where reasoning engines, new forms of co-intelligence, are accessed through natural...
Floating Microschools: Adaptive and Mobile Learning Environments
We’ve been thinking a lot about microschools across the United States over the last few years, and certainly, they’ve garnered...
Learning Environments Don’t Just Need Generative AI, They Need an AI Operating System
What would it look like to fully integrate AI into a learning environment? In the last few months, we’ve seen...
Virtual Voyages: Augmented and Virtual Reality Point Toward an Immersive Learning Future
Remember those endless worksheets we all slogged through in school? They’re not inspiring and offer a limited snapshot of student...
Jeffco Open School: A Journey of Six Learner-Designed Passages
In 1969, a group of parents petitioned the Jefferson County School Board to establish a school that honored the development...
Portrait of a Community to Empower Learning Transformation
Imagine a bustling school gymnasium filled with parents, students, educators, and local community members. The energy is palpable as diverse...
Adaptive Leader Istation Joins AI-Powered Reading Tutor Amira Learning
Founded by Dick Collins in 1998 in Dallas, Istation rode the 15-year blended learning wave to become a leader in...
Student Enterprise: Invite Learners to Launch a Media Agency or Publication
Long trend: student enterprise. NFTE, Uncharted Learning, CAPS Network, FFA, StartEdUp, WIT, and others have been supporting youth entrepreneurship in...
Career Pathways In A Rapidly Changing World: US Career Pathways Story
By: Paul Herdman The U.S. Career Pathways Story: Federal Inspiration, Local Innovation In the last decade, the United States has...
6 Ways State Policymakers Can Build More Future-Focused Education Systems
By: Jennifer Kabaker In states across the nation, we see growing momentum to shift education systems to be more personalized,...
What is Efficacy Research in Education and How Do I Know if Edtech is Really Working?
By : Sierra Noakes, Kip Glazer and Pati Ruiz “Does this edtech tool work for my students, and in my...
Learner-Centered Ecosystems: Nurturing Connections, Fostering Belonging, and Engaging in Place
By Bobbi Macdonald and Emily Liebtag It’s increasingly apparent that young people are grappling with growing disconnection, a challenge that...
The Rise of Artificial Intelligence and the Implications for School Districts
In testimony at a school board meeting last week, I made three points about the implications of AI: Artificial Intelligence...
What is Belonging, and Why Does it Matter in Schools?
By Adam Strom, Meisha Lamb-Bell, and Fernande Raine In an era defined by profound demographic shifts and burgeoning diversity within...
12 Shifts to Move from Teacher-Led to Student-Centered Environments
A lot of schools talk about increasing student agency. “Creating self-directed learners.” “Building lifelong learners.” “Cultivating global citizens.” But when...
Microschools Changing the Phoenix Education Landscape
Two years after Universal ESA funding was introduced in Arizona, Phoenix has one of the most interesting and diverse portfolios...
The Productive Tension of the Me and the We
At the beginning of 2022, we attended a rowing class. If you’ve been to a cycling class, you know the...
How Educators Can Help Students Understand Their Own Neuroscience, and In Turn, Foster Positive Classroom Behaviors
By: Reagan Rogers, M.S., Psy.S., National Director of Invo Healthcare’s IMPACT Program In the wake of the pandemic, families, educators,...
Skills Transcripts at Scale: Why The ETS & MTC Partnership is a Big Deal
We’re a step closer to skills transcripts for all learners today. Better yet, we’re a step closer to moving courses...
How to Start Investing in New Pathways
Over the last few years, we’ve shared hundreds of pathways stories through our blog, podcast, and various publications. To synthesize...
The State of the American High School in 2024
Over the past 120 days, we’ve conducted tours of over 50 high schools in more than 1,000 classrooms across various...
Small Schools, Big Umbrella: Expanding, Defining and Scaling the Microschool Ecosystem
Microschools, while not a new concept, are currently garnering increasing attention as an educational innovation. Microschools are small learning environments...
