Posts by Nate McClennen
Citizenship Skills Support Durable Pathways
To create durable and meaningful pathways, students must be empowered as citizens with essential citizenship skills like digital literacy, understanding systems, storytelling and civic dialogue.
Team Teaching, Educator Retention and Education’s Next Workforce
Discovering, creating and retaining great teachers who are driven to support every K-12 learner is one of the most effective ways to change long-term outcomes for both students and their future communities.
Education is about to radically change: AI for the masses
As AI continues to impact education, along with every other sector, innovative education leaders have an opportunity to build the foundation for the most personalized learning system we have ever seen.
Next Generation Online Learning Programs – Khan World School
Khan World School launched in August 2022 to build a more engaging and challenging middle and high school virtual experience. As a partnership between ASU Prep and Sal Khan, the learning model design includes mastery-based learning, seminars, concurrent-enrollment opportunities and tutorials in addition to online courses.
Every Student Needs a Learning Coach
As learning becomes more personalized, learning opportunities expanded and unbounded, and learning science research more robust, an updated and revised advisory role is more important than ever.
Building Rural Learning Pathways to Strengthen the Future of Community
By integrating dual enrollment, credentials and CTE, high school students are better able to graduate with college credit and viable credentialed experiences to support entry into the postsecondary workforce.
Scaling Microschool Ecosystems at ASU Prep
It is clear that educational ecosystem diversity is increasing rapidly and as growth continues, it is critical that leaders pay attention to a set of important factors to ensure maximum impact on learners.
Launching New School Models in Phoenix
In the summer of 2021, ASU approved ASU Prep Pilgrim Rest as the 11th school within the ASU Prep Phoenix-based network and is designed to serve the historically Black, and now mostly Latinx neighborhoods southeast of downtown Phoenix.
Immersive Hybrid College Experiences for Online Learners at ASU Prep Academy
ASU Prep is launching two new learning models in 2022-23 school year: ASU Prep Local and ASU Prep Experience.
Building an Education Innovation Index
Nate McClennen explores what education could look like when innovative solutions sit at the intersection of feasibility, desirability, benefit, and viability.