Learning Agility: Harnessing the Power of Failure

Think about your adjustment period when you first entered the workforce: colleagues driving you mad with their opinions, work-life balance challenges, micromanaging bosses, team meeting tangents, fire drills—and so much more. Add to these challenges the fact that today’s market requires fast, nimble response to market demands through new processes, systems, or technologies. Our global marketplace thrives on change and innovation but offers little time to learn what is needed to achieve either! How do we prepare students for a workplace that demands consistent performance in spite of these challenges?...
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How College Preparatory Programs Are Helping to Democratize Education

ASU Prep Digital and Miami Junior Senior High School Are Building a Next-Generation Classroom To Provide Additional Options to Students in a Rural Area For many, the American Dream has a similar highlight reel during high school: four years spent making friends, discovering yourself, creating lifelong memories and, most importantly,...
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4 Tips for Making Friends in Your Online Class

Online classes are made up of a community of students, just like any traditional classroom. Thanks to social media, interactive online tools, and digital curriculum design, students have plenty of opportunities to help facilitate making friends with their virtual classmates. Being proactive about forming friendships goes a long way when...
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Our Favorite Extracurricular Activities for Online Learners

Admit it—when you think about your high school days, you definitely remember the clubs you were part of more than you remember the specific lessons you learned in math class. Extracurricular activities are an important part of high school because they give students a chance to interact with their peers,...
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How Online Clubs Help Students Connect with Their Peers

It is a common misconception that online high school students miss out on the socialization component that a traditional school offers. However, students are breaking down the digital barrier and proving that participating in online clubs actually enhances the socialization aspect of virtual schooling. Kathleen Hofmaier, an English teacher at...
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How Students Interact and Gain Social Skills in Online Classrooms

Online education is different from traditional schooling in many ways. Class time is spent in front of a computer instead of in a classroom, and interaction between students and teachers usually happens with some degree of separation. Learning, especially in high school, is as much a social experience as it...
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How to Encourage Your Introverted Student to Engage Socially

Help Your Introverted Student Connect At School and In An Online Learning Environment We all remember how nerve-racking it was to try and make friends in high school. You would sit next to someone you thought looked friendly and strike up a conversation, hoping your efforts would be reciprocated. With...
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