The Big, Big Picture: Ed100 Sitemap

by Jeff Camp | June 4, 2018 | 2 Comments
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Ed100 Sitemap

Most of our posts are short, but this one is a whopper. A reader asked if we could show what's under the hood in Ed100, all in one epic page. We flirted with calling it Page 42. (Hitchhikers will know why: it's the answer to life, the universe and everything.)

Why not, we thought. We've already taken a shot at this in a few ways:

  • The EdPrezi: Some years ago we used Prezi to create an all-inclusive tour of Ed100. It remains a cool way to show an overview of Ed100's lessons.
  • Our music video. Yes, really! Jeff created a four minute song that summarizes Ed100 in a lighthearted way.
  • The Ed100 Big Deck of Questions is a public slide deck full of "teasers" pulled from the lessons.

Without further ado, here's our sitemap, including all lessons and selected blog posts. If you switch between viewing Ed100 in English and Spanish (you knew you could do that, right?) this sitemap will switch, too.

Education Is...video
1.1 
California Context:
Are California's Schools Really Behind the US?
video
 
States in Motion:
Charts show California's context for schools
 
1.2 
International Context:
Are US Schools Behind the World?
video
 
Global Comparison:
Are America's Schools World-Class?
 
1.3 
Economic Context:
Schools for Knowledge Workers
video
1.4 
Social Context:
The High Social Costs of Educational Failure
video
 
Education as a Right:
What is a 'Quality' Education?
 
1.5 
Wishful Thinking:
Sure, But My Kid Will Be Fine... Right?
video
1.6 
Progress:
Are Schools Improving?
video
1.7 
Education History:
Have Schools Always Worked This Way?
video
 
Each:
A Four-Letter Word for Education
 
1.8 
Education's Purpose:
What is Education For, Really?
video
 
Facts :
Fake News vs. Education
 
 
Gratitude :
Are You Thankful for School?
 
...Students...video
2.1 
Diversity in Education:
The Changing Face of America's Students
video
2.2 
Poverty and Race:
How Does Background Relate to School Performance?
video
2.3 
Health and Learning:
Are Schools Responsible for Students' Health?
video
 
Sex Ed:
California's Policies
 
 
Sleep:
Should School Start Later in the Morning?
 
 
Suicide Prevention:
The Role of Parents
 
 
Vaccination:
Start School with 'Ouch!'
 
2.4 
Parents:
A Child's First Teacher
video
 
Local Control:
A Musical Call for Parent Engagement
video
 
PTA Board Meetings:
Here's how to use Ed100 for informative meetings
video
 
Summer Reading:
Learning for Parent Leaders
 
 
Using Ed100:
Five Tips to Engage Parents
 
2.5 
Inputs and Outcomes:
Inputs and Outcomes
video
2.6 
Motivation:
What Motivates Students?
video
 
Mindset:
The Peanut-Butter Mindset
 
 
Relevance:
Why Do I Need to Learn THIS?
 
2.7 
Special Needs:
Why Not Teach All Kids Alike?
video
 
Brain Science:
Learning and the Brain - Myths and Facts
 
 
Gifted:
Should Gifted Kids Get Special Treatment?
 
 
Policy:
The Next Big Thing -- Fix Special Education
 
 
Practice:
How My Son Finally Learned His Math Facts
 
2.8 
Foster Youth:
Educating Foster Kids
video
2.9 
Undocumented:
Educating All Students
video
2.10 
Student Voice:
What is the Role of the Student in Education Change?
video
 
School Boards:
What Student Board Members Should Know
 
...and Teachers...video
3.1 
Teacher Recruitment:
Who Teaches, and Why?
video
 
Shortage:
A Quick Look at the Teacher Shortage
 
3.2 
Teacher Prep:
How to Make a Teacher
video
3.3 
Teacher Retention:
How to Keep a Teacher
video
 
Gratitude:
Have You Thanked a Teacher Today?
 
3.4 
Teacher Placement:
Who Teaches Where?
video
3.5 
Teacher Development:
How Do Teachers Improve?
video
 
Home Visits:
Bringing Teachers Home
 
3.6 
Teacher Collaboration:
How Do Teachers Work Together?
video
3.7 
Teacher Benefits:
The Benefits of Teaching
video
3.8 
Teacher Pay:
How Has Teacher Pay Changed?
video
3.9 
Teacher Evaluation:
How Do Teachers Know If They Are Succeeding?
video
3.10 
Tenure and Seniority:
Good? Evil?
video
3.11 
Teacher Pensions:
How Good is a Teacher's Pension?
video
...Spending Time...video
4.1 
Early Education:
Yes, Preschool Matters
video
 
Early Learning:
EdSource coverage of Early Learning
 
 
Early Education:
A Good Beginning
 
4.2 
Class Sizes:
How Big Should Classes Be?
video
4.3 
School Hours:
Is There Enough Time to Learn?
video
4.4 
Time in School:
Spending School Time Well
video
4.5 
Extra Time:
When Kids Need More Time and Attention
video
 
Homework:
More Time on Task
 
4.6 
Summers:
Time to Learn, or Time to Forget?
video
4.7 
After School:
What Should Happen After School?
video
 
After School:
Should We Cut After-School Programs?
 
 
Expanded Learning:
The after school learning gap
 
 
Penny-wise:
Funding Problems for After-School Programs
 
4.8 
Attendance and Absences:
Don't Miss Class!
video
 
Attendance:
A Measure of School Success
 
...In Places for Learning...video
5.1 
Where You Live:
Zip Codes and Education Destiny
video
5.2 
School Choice:
Should You Have a Choice of Schools?
video
5.3 
Selectivity:
How Schools Sort Students
video
5.4 
At Risk:
When Regular School Doesn't Cut It
video
5.5 
Charter Schools:
Public Schools, Fewer Rules
video
 
Charter School News:
EdSource coverage of Charters
 
 
Anybody Hungry?:
Free Meals in Charter Schools
 
 
Charters:
The Future of Charter Schools
 
5.6 
Private Schools:
Religion and education
video
 
Vouchers:
The Right Choice?
 
5.7 
Community Schools:
Could Schools Do More Than Educate?
video
 
Community:
To Make a Village
 
5.8 
Principals:
The Pivotal Role of Educational Leadership
video
5.9 
Facilities:
What Does a School Look Like?
video
 
Money:
Parcel Taxes and Bonds Demystified
 
5.10 
School Climate:
What Makes a Good School?
video
 
Getting Along:
Making School Safe for Learning
 
 
Inclusiveness:
Schools Should Include Everyone
 
5.11 
Small Schools:
Oops, We Shrunk the Schools!
video
5.12 
Home Schools:
How Do They Work?
video
5.13 
Discipline and Safety:
Who Rules the School?
video
...with the Right Stuff...video
6.1 
Standards:
How Does Common Core Work?
video
 
Common Core:
EdSource coverage of Common Core
 
6.2 
Rigor:
Is School Challenging Enough?
video
6.3 
Literacy:
Learn to Read, Write and Speak English
video
6.4 
STEM and STEAM:
Science, Technology, Engineering and Math
video
6.5 
Tests:
Why Tests Matter and How They Work
video
6.6 
EdTech:
Tech Tools for Teaching and Learning
video
6.7 
Engaging Students:
Making School Relevant
video
6.8 
The Arts:
Creativity in School
video
 
Arts Education Data:
Is Your School Flunking the Arts?
 
6.9 
P.E. and Athletics:
How Does Sweat Help Learning?
video
6.10 
Field Trips:
Do They Matter? Who Pays?
video
6.11 
Career Learning:
Connecting Learning with Earning
video
6.12 
Service Learning:
Learning to Help
video
6.13 
Social-Emotional Learning:
Intangibles that Support Academics
video
6.14 
Character:
Can Values and Habits be Taught?
video
 
Surveys:
Can the Content of Character Be Measured?
 
6.15 
Geography, History, Civics:
When, Where and Why
video
 
Bill of Rights:
Commemorating Ten Crucial Amendments
 
 
Civics:
Musings on our Nation's Birthday
 
 
Constitution Week:
What do California schools teach about citizenship?
 
 
Flunking Democracy:
Education for Citizenship
 
 
Presidents Day:
Make it a Worthy Day
 
6.16 
World Language:
How Not To Raise Ugly Americans
video
6.17 
Personal Finance:
Learning Money Matters
video
...in a System...video
7.1 
The State:
The Buck Stops in Sacramento
video
 
Elections:
Decisions that Matter for Kids
 
 
LCFF:
Five Stanzas for Jerry Brown
 
7.2 
The Feds:
Provoking Change in Education
video
7.3 
School Districts:
In Charge of Most Local Schools
video
 
Candidates:
Running for School Board
 
 
Organization:
Schools Are Like Businesses
 
 
School Boards:
School Boards Demystified
 
 
School Boards:
What Do Boards Do in Summer?
 
7.4 
Counties:
When Education Crosses Boundaries
video
 
Counties:
A Weird New Map of California
 
7.5 
Unions:
Don't Underestimate Them
video
 
New Rules for Unions:
Why Janus is important
 
7.6 
Initiatives:
Power to the People?
video
7.7 
Politics and Philanthropy:
Politics and Philanthropy
video
7.8 
Accountability:
Principles and Policies
video
7.9 
Intervening in Schools:
Acting When Schools Fail
video
7.10 
Three year plans:
How the LCAP Works
video
 
Ed100:
Why does Ed100 exist?
 
 
Local Control:
What's an LCAP?
 
...with Resources...video
8.1 
Skimpy Spending:
Does California Skimp on Education?
video
 
Five Questions:
Move the discussion toward topics that matter.
 
 
More Money for Schools?:
No, not really.
 
 
School Funding:
Is Bad Good Enough?
 
 
Sorry, Kids:
Another Skimpy Budget for California Education
 
8.2 
What Ed Budgets Buy:
What They Buy
video
 
Funding in Context:
Flush With Cash?
 
 
How It Adds Up:
How much does it cost to provide a K-12 education?
 
8.3 
Who Pays for Schools:
Where Public School Funds Come From
video
 
More Money for Schools?:
No, not really
 
 
What If:
A Tandem Bike for Funding California's Schools
 
8.4 
Prop 13 and Prop 98 :
Simple Votes Created Complex Rules
video
8.5 
The Funding Formula:
LCFF Allocates Funds to School Districts
video
8.6 
Categorical Funds:
Special Ed and Other Funding Exceptions
video
8.7 
How Schools Get Money:
Districts Fund Schools
video
8.8 
Effectiveness:
Is Education Money Well Spent?
video
8.9 
Funding Options:
What Are the Options for More?
video
8.10 
Parcel Taxes:
Only in California...
video
 
Demystified:
Parcel Taxes and Bonds Demystified
 
8.11 
Volunteers:
Stealth Wealth for Schools
video
...for Successvideo
9.1 
Measuring Education:
For Kids and For Schools
video
9.2 
Report Cards and Scores:
How Well is My Kid Doing?
video
9.3 
Standardized Tests:
Measures of Student Learning
video
9.4 
Ready Beyond 12:
College and Career
video
9.5 
Education Data:
Keeping Track of the System
video
9.6 
Achievement Gaps:
The System’s Biggest Challenge
video
9.7 
Measuring Schools:
Measuring School Performance
video
 
Dashboard 1:
California's New School Dashboard
 
 
Dashboard 2:
What's on the Dashboard?
 
 
Dashboard 3:
How the Dashboard Gets Its Colors
 
 
Dashboard 4:
California's Common Core Dashboard
 
 
Dashboard 5:
The Dashboard for English Learners
 
 
ROI:
How Should the Success of Schools Be Measured?
 
9.8 
After High School:
What California’s System Provides
video
 
College:
How to Choose a College
 
 
Congratulations:
Here's to Ed100 Graduates!
 
9.9 
Paying for College:
High Hopes and College Loans
video
10 So Now What?video
10.1 
Big Ideas:
Big Ideas for Education Change
video
10.2 
Go Big:
What Money Might Do
video
10.3 
Go Lean:
Education for Even Less?
video
10.4 
What Causes Change:
Triggers for Changes in Policy
video
 
Education Change Happens. Slowly.:
It Happens. Slowly.
 
 
Podcast:
Weekly news of California's education system
 
More Using Ed100 Effectively  
  
About Ed100  
video
  
Win $1,0000 for your PTA
video
  
Tips to Win more for your PTA
 
  
Past winners of Ed100 drawings
 
  
Rules of Ed100 drawings
 
  
Top schools on this year's leaderboard
 

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francisco molina October 22, 2019 at 4:05 pm
Wow! This is really awesome! Works very well as a master index.
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Gail Monohon March 6, 2018 at 8:10 am
Nice overview -- thank you!
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