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5 Benefits of Online Learning for Community Colleges
Amid declining enrollment, there is a silver lining for colleges and universities looking at a different group of potential students—nontraditional ones.
Benefits of Extended Reality in Education
Pandemic virtual learning may have redefined the classroom experience, but moving forward, it's virtual reality that may expand the definition.
How to Improve School Safety and Campus Security
Educational institutions are increasing their use of physical security technology. Mitigating school security risks means strengthening, securing, and modernizing your network infrastructure.
5G in Universities: Enabling Near Limitless Learning
5G is not just about faster connection for smartphones. 5G promises to be a campus catalyst for immersive learning, equitable experiences, seamless collaboration, innovative research, and tighter security.
Digital Equity in Education: How Wireless Business Internet Helps
Today, access to technology is access to education. The effects of digital disconnection are lifelong. Wireless business internet and private 5G networks can be leveraged to help improve student internet access on school campuses, and help level the digital playing field.
Campus Network Design Best Practices
There's no one-size-fits-all campus network design, but the following best practices can help ensure your campus is smart, fast and secure.
Types of Feedback To Improve Student Engagement: The Role of Technology
Today's more nuanced, authentic assessment approach requires robust types of feedback for students to stay on the path to mastery.
How to Manage Successful After-School Programs
Today's after-school programs offer more than just supervision between the hours of 3 p.m. and 6 p.m. With technology-rich environments, successful after-school programs can expand learning opportunities, close achievement gaps, and prepare students for jobs of the future.
How to Develop a Crisis Communication Plan for Schools
During a crisis, time is of the essence. How quickly and accurately schools communicate during an emergency can have a direct impact on student and teacher safety.
The Future of Distance Learning in the Traditional Classroom
When the pandemic forced education online almost overnight, many saw it as a temporary solution. Two years later, the impact of distance learning has helped to transform our nation's centuries-old traditional classroom model.
Building Energy-Efficient Schools: Cutting Carbon and Costs
The biggest budget item for most of the nation’s 130,000 K-12 schools? Salaries. The second? Keeping the lights on. U.S. government estimates indicate that districts spend at least $8 billion annually on utility bills, while as much as 30% of a district’s total energy is used inefficiently or unnecessarily.
Instructure (Canvas LMS)
Supporting Today’s Non-Traditional Students
The bad news: college enrollment dropped 9.4% during the pandemic.
The good news: the definition of a college student is more expansive than ever.
The good news: the definition of a college student is more expansive than ever.
6 Strategies for Tech-Enhanced Learning
By 2025, students entering college campuses will be mobile natives — that is, born after the first iPhone came to market. Technology-infused learning is not just a best practice, it’s imperative to the survival and relevance of higher education institutions.
6 Ways to Future Proof Your Faculty with Professional Development
Learning is increasingly mobile and the definition of success ever-changing. To keep pace, institutions are becoming agile.
Both students and faculty feel the biggest academic factor to student success is quality of faculty. Even still, our global survey found only approximately half of institutions offer their faculty periodic workshops and technology training.
Both students and faculty feel the biggest academic factor to student success is quality of faculty. Even still, our global survey found only approximately half of institutions offer their faculty periodic workshops and technology training.
HyFlex Courses in Higher Education: Multimodal Learning for the Future
Flexibility was a necessity of pandemic-era education. Moving forward, it’s the status quo. HyFlex courses — a hybrid course with increased flexibility — are a popular way to expand access to learning and reach all students regardless of location or learning style.
5 Strategies for Effective Corporate Upskilling & Reskilling Programs
In today’s rapidly changing job market, skills speak louder than resumes. It’s estimated half of all workers will need reskilling and upskilling by 2025. Companies feel more urgency — they estimate around 40 percent will require reskilling in six months. Ensure your workforce keeps pace with your ever-evolving needs with these five strategies.
How Virtual Learning Is Enabling Lifelong Skill-Building
On-campus and online. In-person and virtual. Mutually exclusive modalities are a thing of the past. Fluid, lifelong learning is the new reality for higher ed institutions post-pandemic.
Making Your Digital Campus Mimic a Physical Campus
To advance the online learning experience, educators need to think outside the box. The video conferencing box that is.
5 Ways to Boost Engagement with Canvas Studio
There is perhaps no better tool to enhance learning than video. But “watch and learn” isn’t enough — students need to discuss and interact, and educators need to gauge understanding. Enhance video learning with Canvas Studio and these five strategies.
Case Study: Champlain College
Ranked one of the most innovative colleges in the country, Champlain College needed an LMS to match its ambitions. With Canvas LMS, Champlain is “setting themselves up for the future” — both online and on-campus
5 Tips for Fostering Organizational Growth Virtually
Impactful corporate learning is highly personal and centered on networking. When the pandemic forced the world online, corporations grappled with how to transition their in-person training programs. It wasn’t just a matter of digitizing a curriculum. It required replicating unique face-to-face networking in a screen-to-screen environment.
Case Study: Southwest CUNA Management School
Using Canvas LMS to write a new playbook for corporate learning
The CanvasCasters podcast officially joins the #CanvasFam!
Big news — the unofficial podcast of Canvas, CanvasCasters, is now official! Eddie Small and Marcus Painter’s popular show is joining Instructure this month as a voice for Canvas educators everywhere.
There is No Achievement Gap at Birth. Dr. Knatokie Ford's InstructureCon Keynote
In her InstructureCon 2021 keynote address, Knatokie Ford shared how her experience as one of the few black women in STEM motivated her to inspire the next generation and how using edtech can foster empowering, equitable learning experiences.
Hey Siri, Directions from Poverty to Wealth? will.i.am's InstructureCon Keynote
Grammy-award winner will.i.am is no stranger to success. But the multi-faceted rapper still remembers all his childhood teachers’ names.
Educause 2021: Let’s Talk about What’s Next for HigherEd
We are excited to see you at Educause this year! Now more than ever, educators and administrators like you are eager for insights on what’s next for higher education. And where that conversation is happening, Instructure will be there.
Ontario Tech Case Study: Re-imagining Learning with Canvas LMS and Catalog
When the innovative, 10,000-student university in Oshawa, Ontario found its legacy learning management system (LMS) hindered rather than helped the student learning experience, administrators sought another solution.
Canvas Customer Spotlight: Central Nine Career Center
Hands-on instruction is the hallmark of vocational schools. Whether changing a spark plug or building a home, Central Nine students are immersed in their trade of choice using Canvas LMS and Studio.
Recap: Future of K-12 Education Collaborative
We all felt it: the past eighteen months have been s education’s most disrupted time in over a century. We’re all recovering, but also wondering what’s next.
Recap: Future of Higher Education Collaborative
This August, Instructure brought together higher education thought leaders to discuss the future of higher education in a post-pandemic world. Eight panelists reflected on lessons learned in a chaotic year and how that translates into a future vision of teaching and learning.
Canvas Customer Spotlight: Cal State Fullerton
Learn about Cal State Fullerton's switch to Canvas — converting 15,000 courses in just one year — and why the IT director deemed it their most painless LMS migration.
Using Canvas For Young Learners
Students are returning to physical classrooms, but the digital classroom is here to stay. The use of learning management systems (LMS), so critical for remote learning in the pandemic, will continue to prove essential for schools.
USU Case Study: Supporting Competency-Based Education with Canvas
See how Canvas helped USU faculty buy in to a competency-based model and provided unexpected benefits during the pandemic.
How to Use Modules to Build Courses in Canvas
Adding content to Canvas and wondering where to start? Modules are an essential tool in organizing and “chunking" content in your course.
Student Engagement. To the Power of MasteryPaths.
In this escape room, the only way out is mastery.
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Learning A-Z
Supporting Teachers in Shifting Instruction
Two-thirds of American schoolchildren read below grade level, a persistent problem that has plagued our nation’s classrooms for over three decades.
“We’ve grown too comfortable with so many children having difficulty reading,” says Dr. Jan Burkins.
“We’ve grown too comfortable with so many children having difficulty reading,” says Dr. Jan Burkins.
5 Ways to Tackle Low Literacy With Dr. Jilliam Joe
Over hundreds of hours observing classrooms, education researcher Dr. Jilliam Joe has witnessed firsthand the impact of children’s lack of foundational literacy skills they need to succeed.
Dr. Rasinski’s Take on Improving Student Literacy
Literacy expert Dr. Timothy Rasinski discusses the challenge of low literacy rates and how infusing art into the Science of Reading improves instruction.
A First Grade Teacher on Foundations A-Z
Jordan Snyder used Foundations A-Z to teach key foundational skills, increasing motivation and leading to better literacy outcomes for her students.
Summit Learning Blog
Below is featured content marketing work from my time at Summit Learning (a non-profit arm of Summit Public Schools, funded by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and the Gates Foundation). In this role, I launched and managed the Summit Learning Blog, writing and producing 2-3 posts per week featuring Summit Learning schools, teachers and students. I also produced a series of blog posts on Education Week’s Next Generation Learning Challenges blog. At Summit, my writing and editing expertise was put to use across a variety of channels and mediums beyond the blog — from Facebook posts to formal whitepapers. I also compiled a 75+ page style guide, the first of its kind for the organization.
From Paper to Platform: Summit’s Educational Technology Story
A reflection on 15 years of evolving technology use at Summit Public Schools, through the eyes of a former student and current teacher.
Case Study: Summit Learning Boosts Distinctive Schools' Student Growth
In just one year since Distinctive Schools implemented the Summit Learning Program across its four Chicago campuses, students showed growth on NWEA MAP math and reading tests. Faculty credit the personalized learning approach for students taking more ownership of their learning.
How Personalized Learning Transformed My Freshman English Class
How does the Summit Learning Program change a classroom? For Carli Vandrak, high school English teacher in Fairview Park, Ohio, personalized learning is not just about different desk arrangements and scheduling. It’s about increased student engagement.
Summit Olympics: How a Little Friendly Competition Kept My Students On Track
After two months of snow days and late starts, I needed to keep my middle school students on track and motivated. A little friendly Olympic competition was the answer.
Summit Learning Case Study: Closing Achievement Gaps at Aspen Valley
With Summit Learning, Aspen Valley Prep in Fresno, California saw quantifiable gains in math and reading scores among their diverse student body. Read more in this Summit Learning case study.
How Summit Learning Inspires My Students To Be Scientists
I left my job as a researcher to become a middle school science teacher hoping to inspire kids to enter science careers. Here’s how the Summit Learning Program boosts my students’ confidence and curiosity and gives me hope for their future.
I’ve Been Teaching for 10 Years. Last Year Felt Like My First.
My school implemented Summit Learning last year. Even though it was my hardest year teaching, I would never go back. Here’s why.
Summit Learning's Spokane Training Targets Data-Driven Instruction
Pacific Northwest teachers gathered in Spokane for Summit’s fall regional convening to learn ways to close achievement gaps using data-driven instruction.
How One Math Project Inspired A Dozen Architecture Careers
Project-based learning gives students a taste of the real world. For Carl Stalla’s math students, that practice was inspiration enough to launch a career.
What Is Summit Learning's 'Secret Sauce'? Diane Tavenner Answers
Diane Tavenner, CEO and Co-Founder of Summit Public Schools, reveals exactly how to motivate students in a podcast with education scholar Paul Peterson.
5 Ways to Apply Learning Science To Your Teaching Practice Today
We spent 15 years implementing the best learning science into our school model. Here are 5 ways you can incorporate our findings today.
"I Will Never Teach Another Way"
Summit Learning teachers say personalized learning brought passion back to their profession. They’re reaching every student, and they’re not looking back.
Project-Based Learning: Teaching Newton’s Laws with Broomball
Watch this Chicago school test Newton’s Laws with a broom and bowling ball, forcing students out of a state of textbook-and-lecture inertia.
Summit Learning Sparks Texas-Sized Success in Houston
To achieve one Texas teacher’s dream — reaching every single student — traditional teaching wouldn’t cut it. Watch how Summit Learning changed that.
Arkansas Pioneers: 15 Schools Join Summit Learning Program
More than 300 teachers and leaders traveled to Little Rock for Summit Learning training. Educators left inspired to change the status quo for their students.
"Easy Is A Waste of Time" — How a California Middle School Embraced Change with Summit Learning
What’s the highest compliment a teacher can receive? For 25-year teacher Beth Duncan, it’s her students saying her class is hard.
What It Takes To Hear A Middle Schooler Say "I Like School"
What takes 8th graders from nearly failing to ahead-of-the-game? At Chicago Public School’s Lee Elementary, it’s a combination of great teachers, growth mindset, and the Summit Learning Program.
A Student's Most Important Lesson: Learning How To Learn
To prepare students for a lifetime of learning, empower them with choice in how they consume and learn content.
3 Middle School Projects that Cultivate Skills Needed For Adulthood
To prepare for adulthood, students need a chance at solving real-world problems.
3 Ways to Put Students in the Driver's Seat with Personalized Learning
Guillermo Lopez, a recent graduate of one of California's top-performing high schools, defined his education experience as running on a field instead of a track.
"You choose which direction you run," he says of the personalized learning environment at Summit Everest High School.
"You choose which direction you run," he says of the personalized learning environment at Summit Everest High School.