What I Learned on a Learning Tour of Beverly Public Schools

by Stella Kounelaki Gryllos – Guest Author On a snowy day, one week before schools closed for Christmas, I headed up to Beverly, a coastal town 30 miles north of Boston. The mission? Experience personalized learning at the Hannah and Cove elementary schools and learn...

Making Use of Technology: New Teaching Methods at MIT

by Stella Kounelaki Gryllos – Guest Author I was always impressed, in my years as a student and then postdoc at MIT, with how the school kept current. Complacency was simply out of the question. Not just for the young and aspiring, but also for those at the top. Fear...

Building Professional Profiles: What Students Need

by Stella Kounelaki Gryllos – Guest Author Pick and choose. Mix and match. Select from a list of course offerings and design your own degree. Pick your major and pick a minor. And they can be very different. In some sense, higher education has always been about...