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Description:TOC: INTRODUCTIONWho you know matters--so why do schools ignore students' networks? A strict focus on what students know has left a gaping blind spot in schools' wake. Schools need to embrace innovations that can nurture, expand, and diversify the web of relationships surrounding our young people. Luckily disruptive innovations are bringing these sorts of new connections within reach for schools and the students they serve.CHAPTER 1: THE STATE OF AMERICA'S OPPORTUNITY EQUATIONBy many accounts inequality is getting worse in America. Schools as they are currently structured do little to reverse that trend. Although education reformers have focused relentlessly on achievement gaps, where students live and how much money their parents make still remain strong predictors of success in school, college, and the workforce. In reality, opportunity is not just about acing tests--it is the sum of what we know and whom we know. If they hope to function as society's "great equalizer," schools must step in to mitigate growing network gaps young people face. As much as we need to improve instruction in schools, in equal measure we need to improve the relationships and networks that surround young people.CHAPTER 2: GETTING BY, GETTING AHEAD: THE SCIENCE BEHIND SOCIAL CAPITALResearchers from economists, to sociologists, to political scientists tend to agree on the basic principle that who you know--both your strong connections and even your mere acquaintances--can matter quite a bit in lifelong success or failure. Decades of literature on social capital and relationship science lend insight into how exactly social capital operates and which relationships matter in which circumstances. Strong ties--with our inner most trusted circle of friends and family--provide us with care and trust and tend to look out for us. Weak ties--with those who may have different values and networks themselves--tend to expand our horizons and lend us new information and opportunities that our strong tie networks cannot. Both strong and weak ties, in other words, are critical to human progress. And for young people in particular, developmentally appropriate relationships along both dimensions are critical for the formation of identity. Based on these trends, schools can use research on how humans forge trusting connections to ensure that newly formed networks defy--rather than reinforce--the geographic, cultural, and socioeconomic barriers that otherwise tend to isolate students from new sources of care or opportunity.CHAPTER 3: INNOVATIONS IN CONNECTING STUDENTSNew approaches to building students' social capital are not merely theoretical--they are starting to be a reality in schools. A small but growing group of entrepreneurs are showing that technology can connect kids in new ways that time and distance previously prohibited. This chapter will summarize data on over one hundred emerging tools that introduce students to relationships otherwise out of reach. Specifically these products are finding success in four market categories that parents and schools are prioritizing: tutoring tools, project-based learning curricula, college access and success services, and career exploration tools. With the right business models, these tools stand to disrupt the monopoly that neighborhoods have long held on young people's networks.CHAPTER 4: THERE'S NO APP FOR THAT--SCALING CARING RELATIONSHIPSVocal critics of technology-enabled interactions are quick to point out that technology risks hollowing out our relationships, rather than strengthening them. In some circumstances these skeptics are absolutely correct. Young people still need reliable, in-person, caring relationships for everything from healthy brain development to an ongoing sense of security and love. To that end, some schools also need to incorporate strong, caring, in-person ties to support their highest need students. These efforts align to trends that innovation theory has long highlighted: across numerous industries, companies have managed to innovate by integrating across unlikely pieces of their value chain. This chapter will describe a number of school systems that have spent the past decade doing just that: investing in wraparound services and care in order to ensure that students are embedded in a healthy web of relationships at home and at school.CHAPTER 5: REDESIGNING SCHOOL AS A CARING AND NETWORKING HUBSchools are stuck in a bind. On the one hand, schools are ill-equipped to provide sufficient supports in school to students who need stronger caring relationships within school and at home. On the other hand, they are over-serving students with stringent academic credit, privacy, and safety policies that shut the real world--and a wide array of adults in it--out. In other words, schools need to become both more caring and more open environments, neither of which comes naturally to a bureaucracy. Still, with the rise of...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Who You Know: Unlocking Innovations That Expand Students' Networks. To get started finding Who You Know: Unlocking Innovations That Expand Students' Networks, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: TOC: INTRODUCTIONWho you know matters--so why do schools ignore students' networks? A strict focus on what students know has left a gaping blind spot in schools' wake. Schools need to embrace innovations that can nurture, expand, and diversify the web of relationships surrounding our young people. Luckily disruptive innovations are bringing these sorts of new connections within reach for schools and the students they serve.CHAPTER 1: THE STATE OF AMERICA'S OPPORTUNITY EQUATIONBy many accounts inequality is getting worse in America. Schools as they are currently structured do little to reverse that trend. Although education reformers have focused relentlessly on achievement gaps, where students live and how much money their parents make still remain strong predictors of success in school, college, and the workforce. In reality, opportunity is not just about acing tests--it is the sum of what we know and whom we know. If they hope to function as society's "great equalizer," schools must step in to mitigate growing network gaps young people face. As much as we need to improve instruction in schools, in equal measure we need to improve the relationships and networks that surround young people.CHAPTER 2: GETTING BY, GETTING AHEAD: THE SCIENCE BEHIND SOCIAL CAPITALResearchers from economists, to sociologists, to political scientists tend to agree on the basic principle that who you know--both your strong connections and even your mere acquaintances--can matter quite a bit in lifelong success or failure. Decades of literature on social capital and relationship science lend insight into how exactly social capital operates and which relationships matter in which circumstances. Strong ties--with our inner most trusted circle of friends and family--provide us with care and trust and tend to look out for us. Weak ties--with those who may have different values and networks themselves--tend to expand our horizons and lend us new information and opportunities that our strong tie networks cannot. Both strong and weak ties, in other words, are critical to human progress. And for young people in particular, developmentally appropriate relationships along both dimensions are critical for the formation of identity. Based on these trends, schools can use research on how humans forge trusting connections to ensure that newly formed networks defy--rather than reinforce--the geographic, cultural, and socioeconomic barriers that otherwise tend to isolate students from new sources of care or opportunity.CHAPTER 3: INNOVATIONS IN CONNECTING STUDENTSNew approaches to building students' social capital are not merely theoretical--they are starting to be a reality in schools. A small but growing group of entrepreneurs are showing that technology can connect kids in new ways that time and distance previously prohibited. This chapter will summarize data on over one hundred emerging tools that introduce students to relationships otherwise out of reach. Specifically these products are finding success in four market categories that parents and schools are prioritizing: tutoring tools, project-based learning curricula, college access and success services, and career exploration tools. With the right business models, these tools stand to disrupt the monopoly that neighborhoods have long held on young people's networks.CHAPTER 4: THERE'S NO APP FOR THAT--SCALING CARING RELATIONSHIPSVocal critics of technology-enabled interactions are quick to point out that technology risks hollowing out our relationships, rather than strengthening them. In some circumstances these skeptics are absolutely correct. Young people still need reliable, in-person, caring relationships for everything from healthy brain development to an ongoing sense of security and love. To that end, some schools also need to incorporate strong, caring, in-person ties to support their highest need students. These efforts align to trends that innovation theory has long highlighted: across numerous industries, companies have managed to innovate by integrating across unlikely pieces of their value chain. This chapter will describe a number of school systems that have spent the past decade doing just that: investing in wraparound services and care in order to ensure that students are embedded in a healthy web of relationships at home and at school.CHAPTER 5: REDESIGNING SCHOOL AS A CARING AND NETWORKING HUBSchools are stuck in a bind. On the one hand, schools are ill-equipped to provide sufficient supports in school to students who need stronger caring relationships within school and at home. On the other hand, they are over-serving students with stringent academic credit, privacy, and safety policies that shut the real world--and a wide array of adults in it--out. In other words, schools need to become both more caring and more open environments, neither of which comes naturally to a bureaucracy. Still, with the rise of...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Who You Know: Unlocking Innovations That Expand Students' Networks. To get started finding Who You Know: Unlocking Innovations That Expand Students' Networks, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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