Hannah Emmanuele

After careful thought, we exercised our legal right to opt our children out of the ISAT tests being given next week to all 3rd through 8th graders. Why? The state is phasing out the ISAT at the same time it ...

School principals are showing their digital chops and having fun announcing snow days to their school communities. Above Durham Academy headmaster, Michael Ulku-Steiner, donned ski goggles and Lee Hark, an assistant, donned a Sochi Olympics sweater, to announce a “cold” ...

According to Northern Beaches School Principal Stephen Harris, consider taking a Vision Tour: The Vision Tours are sponsored by the Sydney Center of Innovation and Learning (SCIL), the innovation and research hub of Northern Beaches Christian School, an Australian K ...

According to author and New Milford High School Principal Eric Sheninger via Huffington Post: There is another type of control that we need to acknowledge that is prevalent in virtually every school in the world. This is the control fostered ...

The most important question no one is asking… What is school for? It seems they all are saying the same thing. In times of exponential change, the price of survival is transformation and reinvention: Simon Sinek, and Dan Pink,and Yong ...

“The purpose of education is not to serve the public, it’s to create a public.”  Thomas Jefferson Many communities are dramatically shifting how their schools are preparing learners for the 21st Century.  School board members and education leaders can glean ...

A decade ago, we couldn’t imagine many of the jobs that exist today. Social media director, cloud services engineer and mobile app marketer weren’t even on the horizon.   But the world has changed dramatically and new technologies are opening doors ...

Georgetown University entrepreneur Donna Harris discusses the 21st century job market and the disconnect between what schools are teaching versus what students truly need in order to get jobs in the digital age. From journalist Maura Pennington of Forbes:  Millennials ...

Seth Godin talks openly about the elephant in the room–how our education system is antiquated and increasingly irrelevant to our children and what we can do to make it better.

We’re preparing today’s children for a bold new world, drastically different from the last century. For a broad outline of the meaningful changes taking place in public school education, view this IGNITE talk given at the 2012 ISTE conference by ...