GETideas.org is the incubator where education leaders can develop their professional learning networks. This community provides tools, research, and inspiration to help transform learning institutions. The primary goal of GETideas.org is to bring people together to exchange ideas towards solving education challenges. During the last few months, GETideas.org has been specifically exploring four themes particularly relevant to today’s school leaders. These themes have been: -The Cultivation of Leadership-The Design of…

Australian education leader Greg Whitby reflects on the many professional benefits of engaging with others on Twitter. If you are interested in exploring Twitter as a professional development tool, please check out our list of suggested education leaders to follow on Twitter. 

In this report for the PBS News Hour, correspondent John Merrow of Learning Matters showcases a school district in Kentucky that has committed to a project-based learning approach in its effort to improve educational outcomes for their students.   

This is a video introduction to an online course (commonly known as a MOOC) taught by Stanford’s Paul Kim. Roz Hussin will be co-teaching a follow up course with Paul Kim and will be one of our panelists during our special Hangout on Air on April 24, 2013. Visit these pages for additional information: The original course URL: https://venture-lab.org/education (last year Fall 2012)The ongoing course URL: http://shell.venture-lab.org/wooc (to be launched in August 2013)

  Reknown education experts Stephanie Pace Marshall and James Paul Gee recently engaged in a conversation on the future of schools at National Louis University. Stephanie will be joining us live during a Google Hangout on Air for GETideas.org on April 24, 2013! Click here for more details. 

A conversation with Stephen Heppell anytime anywhere learning with social media, education and private use of social media, mobile technologies and social media pedagogies and social media and pedagogy for education systems in social media.

The Wallace Foundation has produced a series of short, practical videos highlighting stories of effective school leaders. These stories relate to established principles of school leadership:  Shaping a vision of academic success for all students Creating a climate hospitable to education Cultivating leadership in others Improving instruction Managing people, data, and processes to foster school improvement In this video series, successful principals share tips and strategies related to these principles….

Daniel Araya – DML Summer Institute 2012 from DML Research Hub on Vimeo.   DMLcentral has posted an article featuring Research Fellow at the Institute for Computing in the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences Daniel Araya that illuminates some of the complexities in understanding educational reform efforts. Araya points out that we need to redefine education in the US as we move out of industrialization age, “If you look at…