Leadership

EDUCAUSE Library Items for Leadership

Blended Learning in Practice: Case Studies from Leading Schools featuring Summit Public Schools

September 1, 2012

  Summit Public Schools is one of five  charter management organizations (CMOs) that utilize blended  learning that were profiled in case studies prepared by FSG for  the  Micha…

Blended Learning in Practice: Introduction to Case Studies from Leading Schools

September 1, 2012

  In the summer of 2011, the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation initiated a  series of investments intended to build a stronger evidence base within  the emerging field of blended …

Sustaining Our Digital Future: Institutional Strategies for Digital Content

January 30, 2013

This UK report, commissioned by the Strategic Content Alliance and undertaken by Ithaka S+R, "Sustaining Our Digital Future: Institutional Strategies for Digital Content", tells of how …

Blended Learning Implementation Guide

February 5, 2013

Digital Learning Now! (DLN) released "The Blended Learning Implementation Guide," the fifth DLN Smart Series paper, for leaders who are ready seize the opp…

Teachers in the Age of Digital Instruction

January 1, 2011

As digital tools proliferate and improve, solid instruction in the basics will eventually become “flat”—available anywhere globally—and the elements of excellent teaching that ar…

Going Exponential – Growing the Charter Sector’s Best

January 1, 2011

The supply of seats in the nation’s best charter schools is not growing rapidly enough to serve the millions of low-income children who need better schools.  Based on lessons from the fastes…

Seizing the Opportunity at the Top: How the U.S. Can Reach Every Student with an Effective Teacher

January 1, 2011

American children deserve the one ingredient we know creates stellar learning results: excellent teachers, consistently. This brief explains why every child needs excellent teachers year after …

3x for all: Extending the Reach of Education’s Best

January 1, 2009

Teacher effectiveness has the largest impact of school effects on student learning, and research indicates that top-quintile teachers produce learning gains three times (3X) that of bottom-quin…

Using Technology to Personalize Learning and Assess Students in Real-Time

October 6, 2011

This paper examines new models of instruction made possible by digital technologies.  Pilot projects from across the country are experimenting with different organizations and delivery systems…

Leading the Student Experience: Super-Convergence of Organisation, Structure and Business Processes

April 27, 2012

This group of case studies from the United Kingdom organization, Leadership Foundation for Higher Education, focuses on the UK higher education student experience.  "The student experience …