The Global Search for Education: Just Imagine – Pak Tee Ng – Singapore
“The annual Clean and Green Singapore Schools’ Carnival encourages students, teachers and partners in education to showcase their projects that protect the environment.” — Pak Tee Ng Just imagine schools decades from today – what will they be like? Pak Tee Ng is Associate Dean, Leadership Learning, and the Head of Policy and Leadership Studies Academic Group at the National Institute of Education (NIE),...
The Global Search for Education: Our Top 12 Global Teacher Blogs – Remembering Joe Bower and His Love of Learning
Remembering Joe Bower 1978 – 2016 We miss our Top 12 Global Blogger Joe Bower very much. Joe, a progressive and gifted educator from Red Deer, Alberta, Canada recently died of a massive heart attack at the age of 37. Through his regular contributions to the Top 12 Global Teacher Blogger series each month, Joe inspired our team enormously as well as thousands of educators around the world. On a personal note, I was delighted to...
The Global Search for Education: Just Imagine – Tony Wagner and Ted Dintersmith
“The study of ecology will replace other required science courses and will be combined with learning math and social science, as needed. Students will best learn principles of ecology, fundamentals of math, and key social science concepts by studying real environmental issues, both locally and globally.” — Dr. Tony Wagner The Global Search for Education consistently focuses on how to better prepare students for the...
The Global Search for Education: Just Imagine – Close It Summit
“As global engagement inevitably continues to increase, schools of the future will be leaders in reaching across borders and oceans through these technologies to focus on sharing knowledge and advancing ideas while promoting diplomacy, respect, and cooperation.” — Parminder Jassal Just Imagine being in a room at the The Close It Summit (the summit that brings together the best ideas from across the country to focus...
The Global Search for Education: Online Educational Tools
“Privacy is of course critical, but at the moment the dialogue nationally is focusing far too much on the privacy aspects surrounding data rather than the important usage data has for driving personalized learning and supporting students, teachers, and parents. If we’re not careful, we risk cutting teachers off from critical data that can help them better serve students.” — Michael Horn Based in San Mateo,...
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