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Ten Tips for Creating a Culture of Innovation

Education Elements

Over the past six months I’ve explored hundreds of news stories, white papers, and blog posts focused on why and how leaders might foster a culture of innovation. Need bigger profits? Need better leadership? Unfortunately, innovation is too often be touted as a silver bullet solution without even defining what innovation is.

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Moving from Challenges to Solutions: The Future of Educator Micro-credentials

Digital Promise

Digital Promise gathered developers, researchers, educators, and thought leaders from the educator professional development field on January 9-10 in Redwood City, California, for The Future of Educator Micro-credentials Summit. Investigate through research and supporting guiding questions to prepare solutions.

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How to Bring to Life the Science of Reading

ED Surge

“You can understand someone else's culture, what they celebrate, what they honor and what they believe in, without personally asking. Imagine Learning EL Education aligns with the concept of high-quality instructional materials (HQIMs). Imagine Learning EL Education is science-backed and heart-driven.

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The Power of Local and National Community Connections

Digital Promise

Education Innovation Clusters (EdClusters) are local communities of practice that bring together educators, entrepreneurs, funders, researchers, and other community stakeholders (families, local government, nonprofits) to support innovative teaching and learning in their region. Rest assured, this work has only just begun.

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‘Guided play’ benefits kids—but what does that look like for parents?

The Hechinger Report

Are there any cultural preferences or personal preferences to keep in mind, for example, if a parent or a culture really values kids being independent or engaging mostly in free play? Traditionally, certain cultures have valued free play or direct instruction more than others, but things seem to be changing.

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The Pandemic’s Lasting Lessons for Colleges, From Academic Innovation Leaders

ED Surge

In the midst of these trends, we wanted to hear how academic innovation leaders are thinking and feeling about higher education right now. Matthew Rascoff, vice provost for digital education at Stanford University. What are they worried and excited about? What do they believe is working well, and what should change?

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Valuing Professional Learning through Micro-credentials

Digital Promise

Districts across the nation are exploring a new approach to professional learning to meet the evolving needs of today’s diverse classrooms and the educators who lead them. Their guiding question was: “How can we structure the economics of micro-credentials to provide value beyond professional development to educators?”.