Is guidance counseling being disrupted? Julia Freeland Fisher Is guidance counseling being disrupted? At this year’s iNACOL Symposium, most of the sessions I’ve attended so far have addressed two distinct sides of the student experience: social-emotional development and […] Oct 30, 2013 Julia Freeland Fisher
How apps are (re)shaping our lives Julia Freeland Fisher How apps are (re)shaping our lives Howard Gardner and Katie Davis’ new book, The App Generation: How Today’s Youth Navigate Identity, Intimacy, and Imagination in a Digital World (Yale University Press), […] Oct 23, 2013 Julia Freeland Fisher
Unpacking competency recovery Julia Freeland Fisher Unpacking competency recovery In New Hampshire—the only state thus far to eliminate the Carnegie Unit and mandate competency-based education statewide—high schools are embracing competency recovery. Competency recovery is, […] Oct 9, 2013 Julia Freeland Fisher
Personalization without isolation Julia Freeland Fisher Personalization without isolation Last week I had the pleasure of visiting a competency-based high school called Boston Day and Evening Academy (BDEA) in Roxbury, Mass. A number of […] Oct 2, 2013 Julia Freeland Fisher
Disruptive innovation: Advancing equality in Advanced Placement? Julia Freeland Fisher Disruptive innovation: Advancing equality in Advanced Placement? Disruptive innovations often take hold in areas of nonconsumption—situations in which the alternative to using a new method or product is nothing at all. Although […] Sept 25, 2013 Julia Freeland Fisher
Competency-based education and blended learning: Worlds apart or just two sides of the personalization coin? Julia Freeland Fisher Competency-based education and blended learning: Worlds apart or just two sides of the personalization coin? At the Clayton Christensen Institute, we often talk about blended learning and competency-based education in the same breath. That’s because we see both as necessary […] Sept 18, 2013 Julia Freeland Fisher
Performance-based funding: You get what you pay for Julia Freeland Fisher Performance-based funding: You get what you pay for As we see the growth of virtual school options, I anticipate that more states will contemplate performance-based funding schemes. Michael Horn noted this trend in […] Sept 11, 2013 Julia Freeland Fisher
Are districts the right customer? Not necessarily, if you’re trying to disrupt the system Julia Freeland Fisher Are districts the right customer? Not necessarily, if you’re trying to disrupt the system A few weeks back Gee Kin Chou—former Oakland Unified School District’s Chief Technology Officer (CTO)—published a thorough checklist on Edsurge about how to market new […] Aug 28, 2013 Julia Freeland Fisher
Carnegie’s randomized controlled study: take a victory lap, then continue the research cycle Julia Freeland Fisher Carnegie’s randomized controlled study: take a victory lap, then continue the research cycle “The essential implementation question becomes not simply ‘what’s implementable and what works’ but what is implementable and what works for whom, where, when and why?”— […] Aug 21, 2013 Julia Freeland Fisher
Clarifying the inBloom debate Julia Freeland Fisher Clarifying the inBloom debate The new education technology nonprofit inBloom has come under scrutiny of late by parents, teachers, and political groups expressing concern for students’ privacy. Efforts to […] Aug 14, 2013 Julia Freeland Fisher
Putting the summer in summer school Julia Freeland Fisher Putting the summer in summer school Summer has arrived, and with it, the opportunity to rethink schooling. Last week the New York Times highlighted a number of retooled summer schools that […] July 8, 2013 Julia Freeland Fisher
