IEP
Coffee Break: PowerMyLearning's Elisabeth Stock on How Personalized Learning Involves the Whole Family
Elisabeth Stock has been at the education game for decades as the head of PowerMyLearning, a nonprofit focused on personalized learning. I recently chatted with her about the organization’s promising...
Achievement Gap
The Possibilities for Our Black and Brown Students Are Unlimited. We Just Need to Change Our Approach.
I grew up in Chicago, attending all-Black public schools. My parents and most of the adults in my extended family were educators. My dad grew up in Atlanta and attended grade school with a young...
Charter Schools
This Is What It Really Looks Like to Transform a School
After nearly two decades in education, I’m still not certain what the term “reform” actually means. The concept itself is elusive, concurrently everywhere and nowhere. We were promised tremendous...
student achievement
3 Rules for Transforming School Districts That I Learned Here in D.C.
D.C. is worth a long look if you want to make change in urban education. I have witnessed—and was fortunate enough to play a role in—the dramatic transformation of the public school system in our...
Achievement Gap
4 Ways We Can Fund Personalized Learning to Create More Equitable Schools
Budget shortfalls in states are framing a new angle on educational equity conversations. It is no longer simply about what is right, but what is fiscally necessary for a state to grow and thrive....
Teaching
Personalized Learning Works Best When People Really Believe in Kids
Five years ago, Principal LeViis Haney arrived at Lovett Elementary in Chicago’s Austin neighborhood and found a school stuck in outdated, rote-learning practices. Teachers went page-by-page through...
