Threshold Magazine
Spring 2007
The Spring 2007 issue of Threshold: Exploring the Future of Education features articles focused on taking educational innovation to scale, produced in partnership with NCTAF, the National Commission on Teaching and America’s Future. The innovative projects and original research profiled in this edition of
Threshold are based on the work of
Microsoft's U.S. Partners in Learning initiative.
 | Lessons Learned from Studying How Innovations Can Achieve Scale
Christopher Dede, Saul Rockman, and Allyson Knox look for common strategies and challenges as education reformers strive to grow and increase the impact of their education innovations. |
| Ending the Isolation and Exodus
NCTAF’s Kathleen Fulton discusses how the web-based TLINC program is building an online community of support for new and aspiring teachers. |
| Exploring the Process of Scaling Up
What are the steps—and traps—in moving from innovation to broad-based adoption and consequential change? |
| Scalability: A Threshold Forum
Education leaders Christopher Dede, Kathleen Fulton, L. McLean King, Trish Millines Dziko, and Joshua Zoia discuss the current state of scalability, educational change, and how to get where we need to be.
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 | WEB EXTRA: Podcast recording [MP3, 39MB] of the Threshold Forum. |
| Teachers Teaching Teachers
Becky Firth explores how the Teacher Leadership Project in Washington State is helping educators get a hands-on look at how the use of technology can improve student learning.
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| Scaling 1:1 Practices
Ernest Anastos and Darryl LaGace investigate how a small southern California school district partnered with local businesses and government to improve students’ reading, attendance, attitude towards school, and motivation to learn.
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| Gaming the Future
How a Brooklyn after-school program is going worldwide by mixing kids’ natural attraction to computer games with an opportunity to raise their awareness of global issues, by Jonah Kokodyniak and Barry Joseph. |
| | Departments |
| Explorations
Beyond Random Acts of Improvement: Cable in the Classroom’s Helen Soulé and NCTAF’s Tom Carroll on why a culture of innovation is the key to long-term success. |
| About Threshold
Who we are, what we do, and why. |
| In Focus
Distribution of U.S. public schools, the teacher-retention challenge, and more. |
