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Justin Reich is the executive director of the MIT Teaching Systems Lab, a fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society, and the co-founder of EdTechTeacher. Beth Holland is a doctoral candidate at Johns Hopkins University and an instructor at EdTechTeacher. Douglas Kiang has over 25 years of teaching experience at all grade levels and currently teaches computer science at Punahou School. This blog is no longer being updated, but you can continue to explore these issues on edweek.org by visiting our related topic pages: research.

Education Opinion Helping Teachers Surface and Address Bias with Online Practice Spaces
With support from Google, the MIT Teaching Systems Lab is developing practice spaces where teachers rehearse for challenging scenarios in teaching where unconscious biases can affect teacher's decisions.
Justin Reich, March 1, 2017
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5 min read
Education Opinion From Technology to Learning - Time to Shift the Conversation
Instead of always talking about technology, we need to shift the conversation such that we start to better define student learning.
Beth Holland, March 1, 2017
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2 min read
Education Opinion Improving Life and Learning with Design Thinking
Blade Kotelli, Senior Experience Designer at Sonos, describes how design is a lens for understanding how to shape the world around us.
Justin Reich, February 21, 2017
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4 min read
School & District Management Opinion To Ensure Success, First Define the Black Box of Innovation
To ensure the success of any new program or initiative, educators and administrators first need to define the "black box" of innovation.
Beth Holland, February 17, 2017
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3 min read
Education Opinion School is a Game: Can We Make It a Good Game?
Viewing school through the lens of games helps us understand the shortcomings of schools and the paths to make schools more engaging and effective.
Justin Reich, February 16, 2017
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6 min read
Education Opinion Use Design Thinking to Create an Opportunity to Learn
Whether the goal is design thinking or deeper learning, ensuring that all teachers and administrators have an opportunity to learn may be most critical for long-term success.
Beth Holland, February 10, 2017
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3 min read
School & District Management Opinion The Unintended Consequences of Innovation
By helping students develop empathy, it may be possible to prevent the negative consequences of innovation, like fake news and online bullying.
Beth Holland, January 31, 2017
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3 min read
Education Opinion In Pursuit of Ambitious Instruction: Leading for Deeper Learning
The hallmark of ambitious instruction is teaching and learning that moves beyond the straightforward communication of facts and skills to instruction that has teachers and students making meaning of rich academic content.
Justin Reich, January 23, 2017
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3 min read
Education Opinion Assessment Over Evaluation in Helping New Initiatives Thrive
Assessment is a measurement, and evaluation is assessment with a value judgment. Only the former is essential to launching change in schools.
Justin Reich, January 13, 2017
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3 min read
Education Opinion Coherence is Signature Quality of our Most Effective Schools
In improving schools for students, it is more important to get one system right than it is to pick the one right system.
Justin Reich, December 28, 2016
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3 min read
Education Opinion The Secret to Schools that Keep Getting Better
Schools that keep getting better are places where the adults love learning with one another and model that passion for students.
Justin Reich, December 9, 2016
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2 min read
Education Opinion Four Ways School Leaders Can Support Innovation
Video and ideas from the forthcoming Launching Innovation in Schools MOOC that explains four ways that school leaders can support innovation.
Justin Reich, November 29, 2016
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7 min read
Education Opinion How to Fall in Love (with Statistics)
A new free online course provides teachers and students with the tools they need to distinguish facts from malarky.
Justin Reich, November 23, 2016
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4 min read
Education Opinion Launching Innovation through Teacher to Teacher Learning
When teachers are interviewed about who has the most influence over their teaching practice, the number one answer is: "other teachers."
Justin Reich, November 21, 2016
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4 min read
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