Updates to Learning Spaces Make Schools Future-Ready
EdTech Magazine
MAY 12, 2017
By Jacquelyn Bengfort More flexible learning environments are important for improving student outcomes.
Guest Post: From Consumption to Creation: Future Ready Librarians Embrace Micro-credentials
Digital Promise
MARCH 5, 2020
The Future Ready Librarians ® initiative has already changed the conversation about ways in which teacher librarians lead, teach, and support innovative learning in schools. The Future Ready Librarians initiative aligns school libraries and librarians with strategic work through the Future Ready Librarians Framework.
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How LMS groups enable student collaboration for better learning outcomes
Neo LMS
MAY 24, 2022
Teachers are encouraged to promote collaboration in the classroom to achieve better learning outcomes. The benefits of student collaboration are backed by the social learning theory , which supports the idea that an interactive learning environment yields better student outcomes. Virtual communication is a future-ready skill.
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Strength in Vulnerability
A Principal's Reflections
FEBRUARY 13, 2022
Often, we are afraid of taking risks or embracing new ideas because they might not work out, resulting in a decrease in performance, outcomes, or morale. I recently joined Tom Murray on the Future Ready podcast to share some of my thoughts on the topic, which you can view below.
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Curriculum is the Key to Flexible, Future-Ready Schools
EdNews Daily
OCTOBER 1, 2020
faced similar challenges but experienced wildly different outcomes. from “completely ready for remote learning” to “this building closure is basically a school closure.” The post Curriculum is the Key to Flexible, Future-Ready Schools first appeared on EdNews Daily.
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To Develop Future-Ready Students, Project-Based Lessons Teach Real World Skills
Edsurge
AUGUST 22, 2017
Indeed, recent research indicates there is a direct and undeniable correlation between improved student outcomes and integrating SEL and life skills—like problem-solving, collaboration, and good judgment—into existing curriculum. Are your students future ready? What's more, teachers value these skills. So do employers.
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3 easy ways to get students future ready
eSchool News
APRIL 28, 2017
Change is inevitable, and while it’s important to design lessons with an end result in mind, it’s difficult to prepare students for a future that doesn’t exist yet. In the recent edWebinar, “ The Future Ready Challenge: Improve Student Outcomes in 18 Weeks ,” hosted by edWeb.net , Dr. L.
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STEM vs. STEAM: The importance of the Arts
Neo LMS
FEBRUARY 17, 2022
This, in turn, gives them valuable future-ready skills for the workplace and in their daily lives. When facilitated correctly, it means resources and independent perspectives are shared to create better project outcomes. .
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Building ethical AI usage in K-12 education
eSchool News
DECEMBER 23, 2024
Our AI deep dive resulted in the development of three guiding principles: high standards and expectations, future ready skills, and cultural proficiency. The three guiding principles have become the foundation which underpins all AI professional development, communication, and future planning.
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Equitable access to AI in classrooms is a problem–the solution is professional learning
eSchool News
NOVEMBER 13, 2024
AI can also help teachers personalize instruction for every child, accelerating learning and improving outcomes. While the educational benefits of AI, such as helping students build future-ready skills, are clear, it is equally important to ensure that students learn how to use AI safely and responsibly.
Efficacy in Digital Learning
A Principal's Reflections
OCTOBER 22, 2017
Simply put, efficacy is the degree to which desired outcomes and goals are achieved. How do we implement and support rigorous and relevant learning tasks that help students become Future Ready? It is a word that, in my opinion, has to be a part of our daily vocabulary and practice. Again, this is just part of the job.
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Future Ready Schools heralds school librarians as leaders
eSchool News
JUNE 28, 2016
New project highlights critical role school librarians play in supporting Future Ready goals. Future Ready Schools (FRS), led by the Alliance for Excellent Education (the Alliance) in partnership with the U.S. Future Ready librarians embrace change and innovation in education,” said Ray. “As
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Portland Public Schools Selects YouScience to Empower Students with Career-Ready Skills Through Career and Technical Education (CTE) Programs
eSchool News
DECEMBER 24, 2024
The introduction of YouScience in PPS signifies a pivotal shift toward data-driven education that not only enhances student outcomes, but it also helps the district address workforce development needs in Oregon’s largest urban area.
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Quantifying Innovative Practices
A Principal's Reflections
MAY 5, 2024
We merged quantitative and qualitative measures to validate each innovative idea's reasons, processes, and outcomes in detail. Our main goal was to demonstrate tangible improvements rather than just discuss them. As a principal, I persistently sought methodologies and procedures to gauge the effects of the changes we were enacting.
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Scaling Innovation: A System’s Approach to Transforming Teaching & Learning
Digital Promise
MARCH 13, 2017
To help overcome this, we have adopted the Future Ready Schools Framework , a systematic approach to scaling innovative digital learning practices while promoting long-term sustainability. In January 2016, the team collectively took a district self-assessment to gauge BWRSD’s digital learning readiness. Digital Learning Teams.
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Leading Schools of the Future
A Principal's Reflections
JANUARY 25, 2015
Portions of this post are adapted from the Future Ready Schools website with permission. Future ready schools are those focused on learning in a digital age and prepare students for the world of today and of the future. Digital Leadership and Future Ready Recently the U.S.
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How to write SMART learning objectives in your LMS
Neo LMS
MARCH 29, 2022
Today, it’s more important than ever to equip students with future-ready skills they can leverage later in their personal and professional lives. . SMART learning objectives refer to intended learning outcomes that follow a certain structure. The purpose of teaching goes far beyond passing on theoretical knowledge.
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CAE and Otus Team Up to Provide Assessment Tool for K-12 Educators to Improve Student Outcomes
eSchool News
AUGUST 22, 2023
Under this partnership, educators using both Otus and CAE’s College and Career Readiness Assessment (CCRA+) will have a holistic picture of student performance by combining CCRA+ data with other assessment data districts are collecting – all in one platform, which will ultimately help them make instructional decisions to improve student outcomes.
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Trending: This style of learning has teachers and students re-imagining Future-Ready
eSchool News
SEPTEMBER 26, 2017
There is also an element of wonder or surprise that comes with inquiry-based learning, as the outcome isn’t prescribed. Find him online at freetech4teachers.com : Inquiry-based learning has gained momentum because it puts students into a more active role in the learning process. Byrne: Time.
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?Framework: Future Ready Schools’ Commitment and Dashboard
Edsurge
OCTOBER 29, 2017
This is one of the principles championed by Future Ready Schools (FRS), a project of the policy and advocacy organization, Alliance for Excellent Education. FRS helps district leaders plan and implement personalized, research-based digital learning strategies to help all students achieve their full potential.
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Using Data to Improve Student Outcomes and School District Management
edWeb.net
NOVEMBER 2, 2021
This can be a crucial part of helping a district provide more equitable outcomes, and then sharing successful processes and results with other districts. The post Using Data to Improve Student Outcomes and School District Management appeared first on edWeb. This edWeb broadcast was sponsored by CatchOn, An ENA Affiliate.
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6 Edtech New Year’s Resolutions
Tom Murray
JANUARY 12, 2016
From Providence, Rhode Island to Phoenix, Arizona, I’ve had the privilege to travel and work with over 2,300 district leaders from almost 500 school districts over the past year through the Future Ready Initiative. These concerns are real and often become roadblocks for student learning. Commit to Personalized Professional Learning.
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The BrandED Conversation
A Principal's Reflections
APRIL 2, 2017
The outcomes described above might never had come to pass had it not been for Trish Rubin. Schools that are Future Ready boldly engage their community to build relationships and empower both students and families. Efficacy, in part, was transparently integrated in our stories of struggle, systems change, and success.
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The Impact of Inclusive STEM Education
Edsurge
MAY 15, 2024
The program has since grown to reach hundreds of thousands of students over the past ten-plus years, improving district-wide opportunities and outcomes. The program aims to provide students with diverse opportunities and pathways to become future-ready graduates. Many industry certification opportunities are tied to the courses.
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Improving Teacher and Student Engagement Through Creativity
Edsurge
MARCH 9, 2023
Being future-ready is more than just being ready for college or securing a job; it’s thinking creatively about the problems we face as a society. Being future-ready is more than just being ready for college or securing a job; it’s thinking creatively about the problems we face as a society.
Gale In Context: Literature Launches to Promote Critical Thinking Skills and Better Learning Outcomes in ELA for High School Students
eSchool News
JUNE 9, 2023
This sparks greater interest in literature, enabling teachers to facilitate meaningful interactions that inspire more compelling classroom discussions that increase critical thinking skills, delivering better learning outcomes. Gale In Context databases have a long history of supporting academic achievement and future-ready skill development.
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Easy Ways to Get Students Future Ready
edWeb.net
MAY 5, 2017
Change is inevitable, and while it’s important to design lessons with an end result in mind, it’s difficult to prepare students for a future that doesn’t exist yet. In the recent edWebinar, “ The Future Ready Challenge: Improve Student Outcomes in 18 Weeks ,” hosted by edWeb.net , Dr. L. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING.
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Librarians at the Forefront of “Future Ready”
edWeb.net
DECEMBER 27, 2016
Librarians are at the forefront of helping schools become “future ready.” The Alliance for Excellent Education (the Alliance) launched its Future Ready Schools (FRS) initiative in October 2014 with the aim of leveraging technology and connectivity to personalize and transform learning.
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8 LMS features that support student autonomy in the classroom and beyond
Neo LMS
JUNE 28, 2022
Student autonomy in the classroom is also essential for their future careers. Equipping students with future-ready skills is one of the main aspects educational institutions should focus on nowadays. Read more: How LMS groups enable student collaboration for better learning outcomes. Digital portfolios.
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Vote for Digital Promise in the 2020 SXSW EDU PanelPicker
Digital Promise
AUGUST 9, 2019
Join EducationSuperHighway, Future Ready, and Digital Promise to discuss how the classroom is transforming for students and teachers. Despite billions of dollars invested in innovative practices and tools, we see little-to-no improvement in the outcomes for marginalized students. Inclusive Innovation: Designing for Equity.
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#ICE18: Redesigning a Classroom Is Not About Being “Pretty for Pinterest”
EdTech Magazine
FEBRUARY 27, 2018
“It’s imperative that classroom design is driven by the desire to create personal and authentic learning experiences for students,” says Tom Murray, director of innovation for Future Ready Schools , a project of the Alliance for Excellent Education. You want a strong connection to a learning outcome in order to use tech successfully.
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A Principal's Reflections
APRIL 3, 2016
There will even be a special Future Ready Schools strand. Connections will then be made to how we can begin to transform spaces in our schools to improve student-learning outcomes. Innovative spaces for attendees to learn in – Design empowers learning , which is why we want attendees to experience this firsthand.
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Future Ready: A Systemic Plan for Transformation
edWeb.net
MARCH 9, 2015
Future Ready is a free, bold new effort to maximize digital learning opportunities and help school districts move quickly toward preparing students for success in college, a career, and citizenship. The post Future Ready: A Systemic Plan for Transformation appeared first on edWeb. community, presenter Thomas C.
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A Principal's Reflections
FEBRUARY 28, 2016
Certain words jump right out at me such as grit, innovation, branding, mindset, future ready, deeper learning, and personalization. Does the meaning in someone’s opinion really matter or is it more about the outcome as it pertains to the learning culture of our schools?
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Future Ready Teaching and Learning
edWeb.net
JANUARY 22, 2018
Rob will be speaking at FETC 2018 on Thursday, January 25th at 2pm on the topic Are You Future Ready? He is the author of a number of books including The Future Ready Challenge: Improve Student Outcomes in 18 Weeks and Technology, Reading & Digital Literacy: Strategies to Engage the Reluctant Reader.
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Book review – Learning Transformed: 8 Keys to Designing Tomorrow’s Schools, Today
Dangerously Irrelevant
MARCH 6, 2019
All are critically-important components of robust, future-ready schools and each gets substantial coverage in their respective book chapters. Although Tom and Eric state directly in Chapter 5 that ‘professional learning must focus on student outcomes through improved pedagogy – not on tools’ (p.
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Kitaboo on EdTech
JUNE 20, 2019
So, students must be made aware of the technology that helps them live an easy life and encourage them to make innovations that can help people in the future. In this blog, we will look at how educators and publishers can create STEM courses that will achieve the best outcomes for students. Design Age-Appropriate Lessons.
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Digital Promise
AUGUST 13, 2018
What happens in a Future Ready Library? Rather, it can help educators to inform instruction, save time, and improve student outcomes. Actually, researchers know much about learning, but haven’t made the evidence-base actionable for others. Libraries as Maker Magnets. Students consume less and make more!
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Is Your School "Future Ready"?
Graphite Blog
JUNE 26, 2015
In November of 2014, President Obama challenged district superintendents to sign the Future Ready Pledge. Department of Education , and the LEAD Commission is hosting Future Ready Regional Summits across the nation to provide support for those districts and to build a network of leaders. Look at how you use time.
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BenQ Boards Create Affordable, Future-Ready Learning Pathway for Paso Robles Joint Unified School District
eSchool News
DECEMBER 18, 2023
The BenQ Boards allowed Paso Robles to bypass an expensive cabling infrastructure update many of its schools needed while introducing an affordable yet innovative classroom solution for fostering engagement and collaboration and nurturing future-ready students. “We
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edWeb.net
JANUARY 25, 2018
He is the author of a number of books including The Future Ready Challenge: Improve Student Outcomes in 18 Weeks and Technology, Reading & Digital Literacy: Strategies to Engage the Reluctant Reader. Listen to the Education Talk Radio interview below: The post Future Ready Teaching and Learning appeared first on edWeb.
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9 Great Nonprofits to Support School Leaders
Tom Murray
FEBRUARY 4, 2017
The Alliance for Excellent Education (All4Ed) & Future Ready Schools (FRS). Connect: www.all4ed.org , @all4ed | www.futureready.org , @FutureReady. The Alliance also has run Digital Learning Day for the past five years. National Association of Elementary School Principals (NAESP). Connect: www.naesp.org , @NAESP.
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4 tips to start meaningful conversations with students
eSchool News
APRIL 25, 2022
But there are still a handful of states without any college and career readiness standards–and most states that do have measurement criteria in place consider metrics like the number of Advanced Placement courses or dual-enrollment classes. Who should engage?
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4 key findings on student engagement
eSchool News
SEPTEMBER 10, 2024
Engagement improves academic outcomes and student well-being. Ideally, the methods we apply in the classroom should help close the gap in academic comprehension and performance, while also boosting students’ self-esteem and happiness to ensure their overall well-being and future readiness.
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