Adam Kulaas
Getting Smart
Tacoma, WA, United States
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The Future of Learner Experience (LX)
Walking through the Point Defiance Zoo in Tacoma, WA, our team was able to converse with innovative educators and brilliant students about the future of learner experiences. → Read More
Tools for Project Based Learning: The Landscape Today
The spread of access to low-cost devices holds great promise for giving more students high quality project based experiences, but tech has yet to become a panacea for the challenges of PBL. In this post, we look at the recent history of PBL-oriented edtech, and draw some predictions about where it’s headed. → Read More
Smart Review: Learner-Centered Innovation
By Emily Liebtag and Adam Kulaas - We think Learner-Centered Innovation by Dr. Katie Martin is a must-read. It sparks action, which as an underlying theme echoed throughout the book, with an emphasis on continuous improvement. Here, we look at it in a little more depth. → Read More
Re-Up on Your Goals, Get SMART(er²)
By Adam Kulaas - While it is convenient with the start of a new calendar year, there is never a wrong time to set goals. Here are some useful strategies that we like. → Read More
Sketchnoting 101: Students Making the Invisible, Visible
By Adam Kulaas - Sketchnoting can be an exciting add-on to the practices within your classroom, and is very aligned with a design thinking mindset. Learn more here. → Read More
Navigating School Leadership: 5 Lessons
Leadership is more than managing others. Here are 5 lessons to help education leaders navigate their leadership roles in 2018. → Read More
Using Design Thinking to Disrupt for Good
By Adam Kulaas - One Stone is an innovative high school with a mission of “making students better leaders and the world a better place.” Learn more here. → Read More
Educating the Whole Child by Capturing Hearts
By Adam Kulaas - It takes a village to raise a child, but it also takes skilled leadership and a focus on developing relationships within the village. → Read More
Digital Citizenship in Action
By Adam Kulaas - With passion and investment in exploration of the topic, this can be a “handbook” for any educators who want to teach digital citizenship. → Read More
Smart Review | Leading Personalized and Digital Learning
By Adam Kulaas - This book delivers a frame for a majority of my life's work around the topic of Leading Personalized and Digital Learning. Learn more here. → Read More
To Reflect or Not to Reflect?
By Adam Kulaas - By learning how to reflect with meaning, it opened my world to increased learner empathy and a decreased stress. → Read More
Mapping Learner Experience
By Adam Kulaas - As students navigate their learning journey, we must deliver explicit, student-owned opportunities to set and map their course. → Read More
Advanced Placement: Building Navigation for Student “Q.U.E.S.T.’s”
By Adam Kulaas - AP’s menu of 38 course offerings has provided a buffet of opportunities to satisfy the academic pursuits of each and every learner. → Read More
An Assessment for Change: “Is It Best for Kids?”
By Adam Kulaas - Here are six lessons I have learned through difficult, messy and at times painful opportunities to deliver of change. → Read More
Fail Forward: I Fail, So That Students Can Succeed
By Adam Kulaas - Failure is a necessary part of the equation for success. When was the last time you celebrated failure? → Read More
The Role of Advisory in Personalizing the Secondary Experience
By Tom Vander Ark - Advisory has to become the spine of next-gen high schools as the rapid expansion of digital learning increases students' options. → Read More
The Road to Solutions
By Adam Kulaas - Our family vehicle has been having issues. The battery died once, then continued having issues. Here's what we learned from the experience. → Read More
Smart Review: The Power of Unstoppable Momentum
By Adam Kulaas - In Michael Fullan’s latest book, he and co-author Mark Edwards uncover and present “key drivers to revolutionize your district.” → Read More
Ask and You Shall Receive: The Absolute Power of a Question
By Adam Kulaas - I have spent a great deal of my life focused on answering questions from peers and mentors. Here, I look at the value of asking questions. → Read More
Beyond Brilliant: The Blueprint for Learning Anything
By Adam Kulaas - An asset for learners of any age, this book provides valuable insights for individuals with a desire to undertake a lifetime of learning → Read More