TAG: education
Queen Me: Using Federal Funding To Transform into a Learning Organization
How Do You Understand the Long Game of Federal Funding? Currently, almost two trillion dollars in federal funding is available through the American Rescue Plan (ARP), with a large portion of the pot being made…
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Use HUD Rescue Dollars to Support School-Centered Housing
The nearly $2 trillion in federal rescue dollars presents exciting prospects for states and districts to advance education innovations. One of the opportunities that state and local education agencies are likely overlooking is the opportunity…
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Asking the Right Questions—Data Privacy and Security
There are a lot of good signs to be seen in recent news about security and privacy in the education technology sector. Some of the key questions being asked by educators and administrators are “how…
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Reinventing The Wheel
For years, many cities have undertaken the task of developing a citywide plan, agenda, goals, etc. around children and youth development and success. In most cases, this work is a collaboration between multiple organizations, including…
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How to Run a Computer Based Training Session: Three Indispensible Techniques
This week I’m really delighted to introduce Frank Nichols a talented consultant from our strategic partners at Strategic Urban Solutions. Strategic Urban Solutions will be guest posting for us from time to time, and…
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Leading Change in Education Reform Efforts
“A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.” —Lao Tzu Leading people through a process of change is…
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You Can’t Comply Your Way to Common Core Implementation
Forty-five states plus the District of Columbia and the U.S. Virgin Islands have adopted the new Common Core State Standards (CCSS). The CCSS, developed by a state-led initiative, are intended to align instructional expectations across…
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Managing for Mastery
We have blogged about the topic of that last video post before, including a reference to Herzberg’s classic “One more time, what motivates employees?” And just like Herzberg, Daniel Pink points out that the three…
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Happy Anniversary, CitiStat.
The CitiStat model, which recently celebrated its 10th anniversary, has expanded and evolved in many different ways over the last decade. Even during the early years of CitiStat in Baltimore under then-Mayor O’Malley, the Stat…
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