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Future of School is pleased to announce that Amy Valentine, the organization’s CEO & Education Evangelist, was selected as the winner of the competitive National (U.S.) Leader category in the 12th annual EdTech Awards presented by EdTech Digest.
The EdTech Awards recognize people for outstanding contributions that transform education through technology to enrich the lives of learners everywhere. The program shines a spotlight on the best and brightest cool tools, inspiring leaders and innovative trendsetters across the K-12, Higher Education, and Skills and Workforce sectors............:........…READ MORE
Future of School is pleased to announce that Amy Valentine, the organization’s CEO & Education Evangelist, was selected as the winner of the competitive National (U.S.) Leader category in the 12th annual EdTech Awards presented by EdTech Digest.
The EdTech Awards recognize people for outstanding contributions that transform education through technology to enrich the lives of learners everywhere. The program shines a spotlight on the best and brightest cool tools, inspiring leaders and innovative trendsetters across the K-12, Higher Education, and Skills and Workforce sectors............:........…READ MORE
Amy Valentine, CEO and Education Evangelist for Future of School, was interviewed by Adam Torres on Mission Matters Business Podcast. In this episode of the Mission Matters Business Podcast, former teacher, longtime online learning pioneer, nonprofit leader and societal changemaker Amy Valentine, CEO and Education Evangelist for Future of School, discusses the current landscape of online and blended learning―including the proven benefits of education innovation, the critical need for students and families to have options for their learning, and the campaign to ensure no child ever again has to say “I hate school.”...........:........… LISTEN TO EPISODE
When students speak, the education world must stop and listen. Welcome to the “Students Speak” series on Future of School: The Podcast, presented in partnership with National School Choice Week. Sahil Pontula, a Physics major at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), is today’s guest. Sahil speaks with Amy Valentine, Future of School’s CEO and Education Evangelist. Sahil first experienced online learning in middle school...........:........… LISTEN TO EPISODE
When students speak, the education world must stop and listen. Welcome to the “Students Speak” series on Future of School: The Podcast, presented in partnership with National School Choice Week. Jazy Manoukian, a second-year student at Patrick Henry College in Virginia, is today’s guest. She speaks with Amy Valentine, Future of School’s CEO and Education Evangelist..........:........… LISTEN TO EPISODE
When students speak, the education world must stop and listen. Welcome to the “Students Speak” series on Future of School: The Podcast, presented in partnership with National School Choice Week.
Isaac Steinmeyer, a first-year student at The College of Wooster in Ohio, is today’s guest. Isaac is interviewed by Amy Valentine, Future of School’s CEO and Education Evangelist.........:........… LISTEN TO EPISODE
When students speak, the education world must stop and listen. That’s the exciting opportunity we’re presenting in the newest season of Future of School: The Podcast, in which you’ll hear diverse perspectives from a number of learners whose experiences in school and their lifelong trajectories have been transformed for the better as a result of the choices they made with respect to interesting educational options........:........… LISTEN TO EPISODE
If you could share One Big Idea to change the future of education, what would it be? In this special episode of Future of School’s One Big Idea series, our guest is Andrew Campanella, president of National School Choice Week (NSCW), the largest public awareness effort in the U.S. focusing on opportunity in K-12 education......:........… LISTEN TO EPISODE
In the 16th episode of Future of School’s One Big Idea series, our guest is Justina Nixon-Santil, Vice President of Communications and Global Corporate Social Responsibility at IBM. Among other initiatives, Justina leads a variety of programs that leverage multi sector partnerships to help create more inclusive and innovative schools and workforce.....:........… LISTEN TO EPISODE
Davidson Academy’s Online Campus (DAO) was recently awarded the Future of School Resilient Districts Prize....:........… WATCH VIDEO
Future of School has an enormous task ahead of it – to truly transform the education system at every level – and such a goal requires a leader who dreams big and is comfortable with the uncomfortable; one who lays it all on the line to go after what’s right, is unafraid of ambition and, from time-to-time, has no problem with failure as long as it leads to another attempt to find what works....:........… READ MORE
The pandemic’s challenges for the education community are no secret, but we’ve also seen how it has pushed innovation in many areas.
One such area is in podcasting, as the past year-plus has been fertile ground for new podcasts to launch, develop, and sustain...:........… READ MORE
Most episodes of Future of School: The Podcast feature a “5-in-5” rapid-fire interview with an innovative teacher―five minutes, five questions, five perspectives direct from a practitioner. The podcast prioritizes hearing from every voice in education, from the association and district leaders driving purchasing and policy..:........… LISTEN HERE
Most episodes of Future of School: The Podcast feature a “5-in-5” rapid-fire interview with an innovative teacher―five minutes, five questions, five perspectives direct from a practitioner. The podcast prioritizes hearing from every voice in education, from the association and district leaders driving purchasing and policy, to the teachers delivering instruction in the online or physical classroom, to the students and parents who have experienced the benefits of having meaningful choice in education..:........… LISTEN HERE
This interview features a “5-in-5” with Alejandro de la Peña, a special education teacher at Parkland Middle School in El Paso, Texas. In addition to being a teacher, he’s also a grant writer, a social-emotional learning program innovator, and an inspirational educator.:........… LISTEN HERE
Amy's Building the Bridge podcast interview with Dr. Wendy Oliver, discussing "the future of school choice". A great, timely conversation:........… LISTEN HERE
Jemar was a 16-year-old high school student who had been suspended, and almost expelled, from school. He didn’t struggle with drugs or violence; instead, he was disengaged and disenfranchised in his learning. His last hope for graduation was transferring to an innovative blended school. Once there, not only did he thrive, but he rose to the top of his class and has since gone on to attend college and been appointed an Education Reimagined Fellow. He had―and exercised―agency, choice, and voice in his learning and therefore, he succeeded........… READ MORE
In this episode of Future of School: The Podcast, you’ll hear perspectives on the future of learning and school in America, informed by educators’ experience working at all levels, from the classroom up to state-level leadership. The interviewees both broadcast and forecast the trends taking place across K-12.......… READ MORE
There’s always a crisis in education. Covid-19 is the most recent and most significant, and it has challenged our education system in innumerable ways. But before the pandemic, there were already various challenges, both urgent and ongoing―the digital divide, lack of access in rural areas, weather-related disruptions, overcrowded classrooms, understaffed school buildings, bullying, and many more......… READ MORE
This article also appeared in Ed Circuit. READ IT HERE
A critical question for states and local communities is how do we create viable career pathways for students from urban underserved and rural communities? When I began my doctoral journey at Northeastern University, I decided to focus my research on this issue because traveling the back roads of South Carolina.....… READ MORE
In this edCircuit video column, cross-published as a special episode of Future of School: The Podcast, Amy Valentine gives commentary on a newly released survey from the National Parents Union that received coverage from The 74. In the survey, 6 in 10 parents indicated they’d like to see schools offer expanded remote learning options, even once pandemic-related restrictions have ended....… READ MORE
Amy Valentine, Leader at Future of School has been called a social rabble rouser, a turnaround strategist and a fighter of the status quo in K-12 education. She has served as a teacher, school leader and executive director...… READ MORE
Future of School (FoS) today announced that ChanceLight Education, a leading provider of education solutions for children and young adults, has joined as a founding partner in the Resilient Schools Project (RSP). The RSP, a partnership between FoS and the Digital Learning Collaborative (DLC), is an initiative to assist schools..… READ MORE
CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - All four school districts in the Tri-county area are participating in a national project to make classrooms more resilient in times of crisis.
“It’s almost as if it took something of this scale to show our country what the challenges and struggles are and why it is so hard,” Future of School CEO Amy Valentine said. “There are a lot of things that stand in the way and are impediments to schools changing.”...… READ MORE
Future of School (FoS) and the Digital Learning Collaborative (DLC), two national organizations leading the way toward effective district transformation, today announced the Resilient Schools Project (RSP). The RSP, a partnership between these two organizations, is an initiative to assist schools and districts with developing an ongoing response to instruction disruptions during the 2020-21 school year..… READ MORE
By: Amy Valentine
In the second half of the 2019-2020 school year, the American educational system underwent its most remarkable phase in history, forcing itself through a near-total shutdown of in-person learning and navigating midstream to an unanticipated, extended stretch of schooling from home before entering this summer’s intense discussion around reopening and future functioning.… READ MORE
Denver, CO – August 12, 2020
Future of School (FoS), a national public charity focused on access to quality public education, today announced its 2020 Student Scholarship Program (SSP) winners. High school graduates from 23 states were awarded this competitive scholarship of up to $10,000 each. The financial award will… READ MORE
By Dian Schaffhauser
Don't refer to the instruction delivered in the spring as "online education." Better to call it "crisis teaching." Nearly the entire American education system had to move online with "little to no preparation." Nobody was fully prepared, not the educators, the parents or the students. That was the description given to… READ MORE
By Amy Valentine
When asked if schools would be able to go back to “normal,” a superintendent recently quipped, “Normal is a setting on a washing machine.” (In actuality, this is such an insightful response.) Here’s why… READ MORE