Apr 5, 2018 | Podcast, Shift
Drew Perkins talks with Ted Dintersmith about his experiences visiting schools and leaders in all 50 states following his first book and documentary “Most Likely To Succeed” which led to his new book, “What School Could Be”. Links &...
Mar 10, 2018 | Assessment, Shift
Learning Outcomes: The Cost Of Insisting What A Student Will Understand by Terry Heick Preface: The point of this article is not that Outcomes-Based Learning—and its desire to predict learning outcomes—is ‘bad.’ It’s frustrating when new ideas or...
Feb 6, 2018 | Shift, Teaching
10 Innovative Learning Strategies For Modern Pedagogy by TeachThought Staff This is an excerpt from a report, produced in collaboration with SRI International, that proposes ten innovations that are already in currency but have not yet had a profound influence on...
Feb 2, 2018 | Shift, Teaching
Stop Teaching Classes And Start Teaching Children by Terry Heick Increasingly, the idea of computer coding is being pushed to the forefront of ‘things’ In movies, on the news, and other digital avatars of ourselves, coders are increasingly here. In Hollywood, computer...
Jan 30, 2018 | Shift, Teaching
Teaching Disruptively by Terry Heick Disruption has been a key theme of the information age. Disruption found legs in the 1990s under the careful study of Harvard professor Clayton Christensen. Christensen studied macro business trends over decades, and saw the small,...