Interview with Kristin Floreno
September 06, 2012
Kristin Floreno is a new Blended Learning Specialist at Brenda Scott Academy in Detroit. The turnaround program, in cooperation with Matchbook Learning, was launched this year to...
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Interview with Greg Hurst, New Blended Instruction Specialist at AL Holmes
August 30, 2012
Greg Hurst started this week as Matchbook Learning's Blended Instruction Specialist at A.L. Holmes School, joining Dr. Susan Claiborne, Matchbook Learning's Program Director at...
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A.L. Holmes Teacher Gala
August 02, 2012
After a year of converting a bottom 5%, traditional, bricks and mortar K-8 public school into a 21st century blended school, the results are in. Approximately 8 out of every...
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Summer School
July 28, 2012
Summer School Those two dreaded words for many students. The thought of being trapped inside a school building, remediating on what wasn’t taught or grasped well during the...
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Vision, Strategy, Success and Everything in Between—Part II
July 24, 2012
MBL DESIGN PHILOSOPHY: Our point of view on how we will achieve success OUR VISION = OUR VALUE PROPOSITION + OUR STRATEGY ...
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Vision, Strategy, Success and Everything in Between—Part I
July 20, 2012
This blog, the first of two parts, articulates our design philosophy around achieving a vision. MBL DESIGN PHILOSOPHY: Our point of view on how we will achieve success Every...
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9 per cent
June 13, 2012
9%. This is the probability that a child born in a bottom income quartile zip code in the US has of achieving a college degree by age 25. 9% Why? According to Eric...
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Big Fish, Little Pond.
April 24, 2012
One often hears today the refrain that America is losing its global competitiveness and the only way back is to prepare our students to enter and excel in the most competitive of...
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