Basketball-style breakthroughs in teaching
Clifford Maxwell, a research assistant at the Clayton Christensen Institute, contributed to this post. Research is critical for driving many of the technological improvements we […]
Clifford Maxwell, a research assistant at the Clayton Christensen Institute, contributed to this post. Research is critical for driving many of the technological improvements we […]
Nov 10, 2015
Two summers ago, Peter Sipe, a middle school teacher in Boston, wrote a provocative op-ed for the Boston Herald in which he contrasted his experience […]
Oct 30, 2015
As teachers move into blended-learning environments, there is a dearth of resources to support them in the transition. As I wrote a few weeks ago, […]
Sept 30, 2015
Research clearly shows that teachers are the most important school-level factor influencing student achievement. So why does our education system often treat them as commodities? […]
Sept 18, 2015
At the Christensen Institute, we often receive requests from school districts to provide professional development for their teachers. Although our resources are fantastic for giving […]
Sept 2, 2015
Education Elements, an education consulting company, is one of the pioneers in blended learning. Through its experience working with K–12 schools to create blended-learning programs, […]
Aug 18, 2015
By definition, blended learning incorporates the human touch. In an effective blended-learning environment, students benefit not only from the flexibility and individualization that educational software […]
Aug 12, 2015
In a recent post, I described a hypothetical model for unbundling the teaching roles of instruction and assessment in order to incorporate rigorous measures of […]
June 26, 2015
Although online-learning software can be a powerful enabler of personalized learning, many educators struggle with what they see as learning software’s limited ability to provide […]
June 12, 2015
Last week the Clayton Christensen Institute released a paper, which I wrote, that profiles three innovative teacher education programs: High Tech High Graduate School of […]
May 26, 2015