School Leaders: Best Practices for Implementing Summit Learning
How have different schools of varying sizes and geographical locations successfully implemented the Summit Learning Program for their studen...
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Summit Sparks
The Summit Sparks podcast ignites discussion around a united vision for personalized teaching and learning. Through monthly-themed conversations, we invite a diverse set of voices — from stu...
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20 of 26 episodesA Student's Passion for Film Brings Cyber Bullying Center Stage
This week on the Summit Sparks podcast , hear about how one middle school student's combined his passion for filmmaking with lessons from a...
Shrinking the Human Footprint: Projects from Inside the Classroom
In this week's episode, we step inside a middle school science classroom immersed in a Summit Learning project: Shrinking the Human Footprin...
Linda Darling-Hammond: Personalized Learning Is Built on Strong Teachers
On this week's Summit Sparks episode, Stanford University's Dr. Linda Darling-Hammond explains why strong student-teacher relationships and...
How Do We Prepare Teachers for Success in the Classroom?
In this week's episode, we discuss what it takes to prepare all teachers to be successful in diverse communities and classrooms. We speak wi...
Sense of Purpose Epilogue: Building Strong Purpose
What gets you out of bed every morning? What do you care about? Who are you? These questions get at the heart of Sense of Purpose . And base...
The Secret to Student Motivation? A Sense of Purpose
What does a canoe without a rudder and Sense of Purpose have in common? Summit Public Schools ' Co-Founder and CEO Diane Tavenner enlightens...
Why This Teacher Loves When Students Ask: "Can I Drop This Class?"
How can we help high schoolers find a life path? Summit Public Schools uses immersive electives to expose students to as many real-world exp...
How to Make High School Meaningful? Give Students Voice and Choice
Princeville High School Teacher Anne Krolicki and student Emily Green join the Summit Sparks podcast to share their experiences and views on...
Developing Sense of Purpose in Middle School? It's Not Too Early.
This month on the Summit Sparks podcast, we welcome the New Year — Happy 2018 everyone — and explore the theme of Sense of Purpose . Our fir...
Content Knowledge Epilogue: Personalized, Mastery-Based Learning
Today we wrap up our third month of the Summit Sparks podcast. And, like the previous two months, we reflect on the different conversations...
Summit Learning with a 504 Plan: A Teacher's and Parent's Perspective
7th Grade Teacher Tammy Penney and Parent Chris Ivens share their story of seeing Autumn Ivens, who has been diagnosed with ADHD and has a 5...
How One California District is Giving Learner-Centered Schools More Choice
In this week's episode, Dr. Matt Doyle discusses Vista Unified School District's Personalized Learning challenge, which involves inviting sc...
Growing Active, Self-Directed Learners in Northern Kentucky
What happens when you give students more ownership over how they learn content? This week on the Summit Sparks podcast, we continue to explo...
Strategies for Effective Teaching from Stanford's Dan Schwartz
This month on the Summit Sparks podcast, we explore the theme of Content Knowledge, which "is like the sun — it's what enables you to see th...
Cognitive Skills Epilogue: What We Learned This Month
At the close of each month, we check in and reflect back on the different perspectives that we've heard from our podcast interview guests ar...
How One Teacher Differentiates Learning Skills for All Students
This week, we speak with Sarah Pierce, a 7th and 8th grade Science and Math teacher at Classical Academy in Escondido, California, a school...
Building Cognitive Skills for Life After High School
This month on the Summit Sparks podcast we are highlighting Cognitive Skills, one of Summit Learning's four student outcomes . This week we...
How Teaching Cognitive Skills Shifts Students' Mindsets
This month on the Summit Sparks podcast we are highlighting Cognitive Skills, one of Summit Learning's four student outcomes . This week we...
Setting Students Up for Success with Project-Based Learning
This week, we speak with John Larmer , editor in chief at the Buck Institute for Education, a nonprofit organization that has provided resou...