By Kalen Allen, Digital Creator and Television Personality I turned 30 this year, and for some reason it made me look backward. Not because I wanted to live in the past, but because I wanted to understand how I became who I am. When I ask myself what shaped me, what steadied me, and what […]
New Member Spotlight As the largest school district in Missouri, Springfield Public Schools (SPS) proudly embraces our identity as the District of Choice in the state. To best serve our 24,000+ students, our priority is to ensure every child can personalize their learning path, which will spark their curiosity, inspire their learning, and help them […]
Authors: Dr. Linh Dang, Senior Policy Specialist, Education Policy and Implementation Center; and Dave Greenberg, Senior Policy Analyst, Center for Professional Excellence, National Education Association Public education has taken a barrage as of late, as is evident from the endless stream of court cases pertaining to religious charters, declining student enrollment, the dismantling of the […]
By Nuvia C. Ruland, Director of Professional Learning Team, High Tech High Graduate School of Education Created by High Tech High teachers for all educators, the Kaleidoscope for Deeper Learning is a framework to design, reflect, and evaluate Project-Based Learning (PBL) units. High Tech High Graduate School of Education (HTH GSE) integrates the Kaleidoscope into […]
A magnet theme isn’t decoration. Designed with intent, it becomes one of the most powerful tools public education has for building schools ready for a future that has already arrived. By Dr. Baron R. Davis, Superintendent in Residence, MSA Education has been preparing students for “the future” for as long as I have been in […]
An interview with Dr. Terris Ross, Managing Director of the AIR Opportunity Fund, American Institutes for Research When Terris Ross stepped into the brand-new math, science, and engineering magnet program at Suncoast High School in 1989, she had no way of knowing how profoundly it would shape her future. She also had no way of […]
I’d spent a week preparing for a biology quiz, with hours rearranging formulas and re-reading lines out of a textbook. When I opened the packet the next day, I was shocked by one of the questions. Among its many questions about eukaryotic cells and chemical equations, a single word appeared after a multiple-choice question: Why?
By Jonathan Voss Founder of Voss Research and Strategy Most of us could be forgiven for thinking Americans are eternally divided about public schools. The arguments are familiar: public schools versus private vouchers, more funding versus less, and of course the heated debates over curriculum. But when you ask people what they want for children, […]
By Lea M. Crusey Co-founder and President of WOOF They don’t talk nicely to each other,” groaned Ms. Briggs, a middle school teacher, frustrated that interactions between students were too often laced with antagonism, shaping both classroom culture and the instructional climate. Magnet schools are built around choice, identity, and shared mission. They bring together […]
By MSA Past Presidents Magnet Schools of America was born out of a defining chapter in American history. Emerging from the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, magnet schools were designed as a voluntary pathway to desegregation. The belief was that schools built around innovative themes would attract diverse families and create high-quality, integrated learning […]
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