Impact Public Schools

Come visit us at the Fort Worth Central Library until 6pm to learn more about Impact Public Schools!

Join us from 10am - 11am today at the Manchaca Road Branch - Austin Public Library to learn more about Impact Public Schools! Visit us online at www.ImpactPublicSchools.com.

How to "Pick the Lock": The Five Secrets to One Stone's Success By: Kyle Wagner. One Stone thrives because it places students at the center. Here, I take a deeper look at the techniques they use to maintain their culture.

The Shift Toward Competency Starts With Faculty (EdSurge News) The demographics of higher education are changing: Today’s degree seekers are older and more diverse than at any other point in our history. Many more work while attending college. With only 59…

Innovating to bring more tools and agency to teachers! Excited to see Khan Acadmey's new tool in action!

Khan Academy’s New ‘Teacher Aid’ Tool Goes for a Test Drive in Southern California (EdSurge News) Most people associate Khan Academy with online videos, and that’s largely what it has been since 2005 when founder and CEO Sal Khan began recording instructional clips from his closet to help his cousin better understand math. But that’s slowly starting to change.The Mountain View-based nonprofit an

"Students need empathy and perspective-taking skills, but those begin with a basic understanding of the emotions of self and others. This basic understanding of their emotions will enable children to think about a situation from multiple sides and imagine what it’s like to be in someone else’s shoes."

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Schoolwide SEL to Prevent Bullying What are the social-emotional skills that can that work against the impulse to harass or exclude? What about the skills that build a predisposition toward empathy and compromise?Developmental psychologist Stephanie Jones, whose lab explores the impact of high-quality social-emotional interventions, ...

You are never to young to make an IMPACT!

Teenager Is on Track to Plant a Trillion Trees Starting his project as a nine-year-old, Felix Finkbeiner aims to restore the world’s forests.

Check out this teacher micro-credential focused on modeling effective annotation, scaffolding instruction in how to annotate, and providing feedback to students as they learn to do so.

Activating Student Thinking through Strategic Annotations - Digital Promise Micro-credentialing supports educators to develop students’ ability to analyze text deeply

A note from Jim Shelton, our President of Education and Brian Pinkerton, our Chief Technology Officer

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Core to our work at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative is building a world-class engineering team with a commitment to developing breakthrough products and practices that support personalized learning.

Over the course of this year, we'll begin work on a free online tool called the Summit Learning Platform, which empowers teachers to customize instruction to meet their students’ individual needs and interests.

This tool was created by Summit Public Schools which runs a network of schools where educators take a personalized approach to teaching and learning. Educators use the Summit Learning Platform to connect students’ long-term goals to their daily decisions and actions, discover how each student learns best and create engaging real-world projects.

Over the past few years, a small team of engineers at Facebook has helped the Summit Learning Platform grow from a tool used only in a few schools to one that is now available for free to any educator who wants to use it. Today, 130 schools, 1,100 teachers and 20,000 students are using the Summit Learning Platform.

Students say this platform makes learning both more challenging and fun; and teachers report it makes engaging each student more feasible than ever. We could not be more excited by the platform’s potential. We look forward to getting to work on this tool, and continuing our ongoing support for Summit’s broader efforts to help each student reach her full potential.

Exciting news!!!! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

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