by edtosavetheworld | Jun 19, 2013 | Stage 1: Adult Learning and Leadership
Pause – before you read on, answer this question: What makes an ideal school leader? Got your answer? Good! That will be important later so don’t forget it. As we explore leadership this week, we wanted to hear directly from teachers about makes a...
by edtosavetheworld | Jun 17, 2013 | News and Trends, Stage 1: Adult Learning and Leadership, Testing and Assessments
How do we transition from old exams to new ones? Which assessments should we care about anyway? Are we even close to measuring the demands of the 21st Century? The dizzying amount of news about assessments in schools is enough to make anyone’s head spin. This...
by edtosavetheworld | May 31, 2013 | Innovation Series
Today’s post in our Innovator Series features Josh Marcuse, founder of Young Professionals in Foreign Policy, a global network of thousands of emerging leaders in foreign policy in 70 countries across six continents. We asked him a few questions about his work....
by edtosavetheworld | May 14, 2013 | Stage 1: Adult Learning and Leadership
My sister, Hannah, is a wonderful teacher of middle school-aged children with learning disabilities. To me, she is a saint. She is incredibly dedicated to ensuring that her students learn just as much as students without learning disabilities. She regularly asks...
by edtosavetheworld | May 10, 2013 | Innovation Series
This week we outlined a vision for the importance of authentic assessments. Today’s post features David Sengeh, founder of Global Minimum Innovate, which creates platforms for African youth to design, experiment and implement solutions to problems in their...
