Carnival of Education Innovation #004

This week's submissions touch on a variety of topics such as virtual schools, online learning, and ideas for teachers:

Mathew Needleman presents Back to School Week: It’s a Marathon Not a Sprint posted at Creating Lifelong Learners.

Clint Buhs presents 21st Century Skills Roundtable Discussions posted at Atomic Learning.

Scholarity presents Innosight primer on virtual schools posted at Scholarity.

Nik Peachey presents Nik's Daily English Activities: Sitemap posted at Nik's Daily English Activities.

Patrick Aievoli presents The new, new educational paradigm posted at on enterFrame.

And here are a few other new blog posts we've come across on Education & Innovation...

Joanne Jacobs has a new post on here blog called "Changing Students to Change Schools":
http://www.joannejacobs.com/2009/09/changing-students-to-change-schools

On the Education Innovation blog, they've recently posted the second part in a series "about barriers to collaboration in Professional Leaning Communities":
http://educationinnovation.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/08/overcoming-the-hoarding-barrier-in-professional-learning-communities-.html

On Change.org, here's a post about how "Superintendent of Michigan district schools Mike Flanagan has asked schools to dramatically rethink the way that children are educated":
http://education.change.org/blog/view/dangling_dramatic_education_innovation_to_win_stimulus_funds

BusinessWeek has a blog post on "'Innovation' Grants in Education" that ends with a couple of questions for readers:
http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/next/archives/2009/08/innovation_gran.html

Finally, on the ABCTE blog, Dabe Saba talks about "a very important article on teaching by Rick Hess" that appears in EducationNext this month.
http://www.abcte.org/blog/2009/08/future-of-teaching

For those who are new to the carnival, here’s a link to the first edition from a couple weeks ago, explaining how it works.

If you write or see an interesting blog post or news article somewhere related to moving education forward, send it to us by 4pm each Monday to have it considered for the carnival.

See you next week and in the meantime, you can follow us on Twitter. Our president, Dave Saba is on Twitter too.