14 year-old Santiago Gonzales loves learning. “I enjoy learning. To me I find it as essential as eating. Either you die or you’re pretty miserable without learning.” Fluent in 12 (and counting) computer languages, public…
Personalized Learning
6 Possible Roles For Teachers In A Personalized Learning Environment
by Justin Marquis, Ph. D There is a mountain of speculation and debate about what school and learning will look like in the near future. Will education be online? Individualized? Self-paced? Flipped? Hybridized? Maybe…
5 Tools And Strategies That Support Personalized Learning
Personalized learning is something that many teachers strive for, but it can be easier to want it than make it happen. Personalization is best created at the learning model and curriculum level rather shoe-horned in…
The Inside-Out School: A 21st Century Learning Model
As a follow-up to our 9 Characteristics of 21st Century Learning we developed in 2009, we have developed an updated framework, The Inside-Out Learning Model. The goal of the model is simple enough–not pure academic proficiency,…
The Role Of Play In Learning
If you’ve ever taught–or even just watched someone learn something new–the role of play in learning is fascinating. While receiving instruction in a formal learning environment, the tone of learning is a mix of nerves,…















