Q & A with Zoran Popović In anticipation of our national summit, Horizons, which will bring together practitioners and policymakers in workforce and education, JFF had a chat with one of the attending keynote speakers, Zoran Popović. Popović is a professor of...
Alan November, June 16, 2017, eSchool News. Instead of rewarding students for how many problems they solve, here’s what schools should be focusing on instead. If you told me that students as young as first grade can learn to solve complex linear equations—an algebraic...
Amplify, Oct 5, 2016. “For millions of children in the U.S., this is their only shot at 4th grade. We have to make it count.” – John Mullin, Enlearn CEO When we look inside the K-12 classroom today, we see a teacher, students, textbooks, computers and an ever-widening...
We’re dealing with 100-year-old conditions in American classrooms today that simply have not changed. There have been changes in educational standards and assessments, but what goes on in the classroom hasn’t changed. This goes to the heart of the teacher’s work life....
As we seek to bring more effective technology into the classroom, we have to make sure that the problem we’ve defined aligns with the problem that educators want to solve. Once we’re on the same page, it becomes a lot easier to provide the support that’s required to...