Edutopia

=Edutopia and George Lucas=

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toc Edutopia is a web site published by the George Lucas Educational Foundation (GLEF). Founded in 1991 by filmmaker George Lucas and venture capitalist Steve Arnold, the Foundation showcases and encourages innovation in K-12 schools.

Mission
The George Lucas Educational Foundation (GLEF) is dedicated to improving the K-12 learning process by documenting, disseminating, and advocating for innovative, replicable, and evidence-based strategies that prepare students to thrive in their future education, careers, and adult lives.

Vision
The vision of the George Lucas Educational Foundation (GLEF)is of a new world of learning, a place where students and parents, teachers and administrators, policy makers and the people they serve are all empowered to change education for the better; a place where schools provide rigorous project-based learning, social-emotional learning, and access to new technology; a place where innovation is the rule, not the exception; a place where students become lifelong learners and develop 21st-century skills, especially three fundamental skills:
 * how to find information
 * how to assess the quality of information
 * how to creatively and effectively use information to accomplish a goal

Core Strategies

 * [|Overview]
 * [|Comprehensive Assessment]
 * [|Integrated Studies]
 * [|Project-Based Learning]
 * [|Social and Emotional Learning]
 * [|Teacher Development]
 * [|Technology Integration]