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I don't know how this passed by me, but this is a provocative 30,000 word manifesto by digital marketer Seth Godin on the need for an education revolution. Well worth the time.

Concise, easy to read briefs of what 21st Century learning is all about.

A NH Principal's take on what is needed to successfully use competences.

A Harvard report outlining what is essential for successful family and community partnerships with schools.

"As school boards address the overall challenge of social media use within schools, they should focus on the reality that the impact no longer lies only on the individual and local schools. Social networks include students and teachers all over the world and, therefore, teaching and coaching on digital literacy for teachers and students is where the focus should rest. Knowing how to build successful communities of learning and how to integrate social connectivity within a learning environment is a much more needed outcome than finding a way to control and monitor specific users and content."

"We are moving away from the model in which learning is organized around stable, usually hierarchical institutions (schools, colleges, universities) that, for better and worse, have served as the main gateways to education and social mobility. Replacing that model is a new system in which learning is best conceived of as a flow, where learning resources are not scarce but widely available, opportunities for learning are abundant, and learners increasingly have the ability to autonomously dip into and out of continuous learning flows." Hat tip to Jason Finley:  ttps://groups.diigo.com/group/vermont-education/content/user/jdfinley 

Great TEDtalk on use of design thinking in a rural North Carolina school, with students at the creative center.

Good video to show kids about how a demonstration-based environment is different from a traditional environment.

TED talk on how to make science fun to learn

Riverdale is applying "design thinking" to its teaching and learning environments... Check out the links to Ideo and to Design Thinking for Educators. Note: The October conference is being moved to mid-winter, to align with teachers' needs.

A fascinating NYTMagazine article about character education.This isn't the same brand of character education that I had in Home Ec... At Riverdale, students are learning how to learn, how to succeed, and how effort leads to success.

If you're looking for an introduction or for deeper resources for Proficiency-Based Learning, start here. This site contains links to documents and resources shared by my co-presenters and me at the Proficiency-Based Graduation Requirements session at the Rowland Foundation High School Transformation Conference.

Report from a symposium on Teacher Retention.  Highlights main causes of teacher retention.  Good short statement that industrial methods on an agrarian schedule don't work in a technological world.

Kids learn from teachers, peers, and the physical environment.  Video about flexible, connected, adaptive spaces and furnishings designed with adolescents' physicality and 21st century learning in mind.

This is the article I am reading in prepartation for the Nellie Mae Cross Site Conference.

Quick piece on the gap between school and the "real world" of today's 11-13 year olds.