Online Learning Day: 8 Trends Improving Student Options
This article begins with a brief overview of the types of online learning available in states across the country as well as the reasons full and part-time online learning can provide a learning pathway for certain student populations not well-served in traditional school settings. The article outlines eight positive trends in online learning. These include… Read More ›
Cracking the Code: Giving More Students Access to Computer Science
This post was originally published on American Youth Policy, July 11, 2016 Long, long ago, on a continent far, far away, I was determined to take a course in Computer Science. As I was an Arts Department major at my university in Cape Town, South Africa, I had to apply for special permission to venture into… Read More ›
iNACOL Blended and Online Learning Symposium
The iNACOL Blended and Online Learning Symposium will be held on October 25-28, 2016 at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center in San Antonio, Texas. iNACOL’s annual conference is the industry’s leading event for K-12 competency-based, blended and online learning. Attendees will find unprecedented networking opportunities and gain access to expertise, analysis, and trends in… Read More ›
Can Students Click Their Way to a Better World?
In this article, Chris Berdik, science journalist and author, explores why technology could be the key to better civics education for young people today. He argues the national trend of low levels of civics proficiency is the result of an outdated approach to teaching civics. Instead, teachers should use technology to engage students. The article… Read More ›
Election 2016: Lesson Plans and Digital Resources for Educators
As the campaign for President of the United States enters the homestretch, the Students at the Center Hub team is sharing an Edutopia blog post that provides educators with several resources for teaching and learning about election and civic topics. Check out Civic Learning and Deeper Learning for an overview of how civic education exemplifies… Read More ›
Teaching the Whole Child: Instructional Practices That Support Social-Emotional Learning in Three Teacher Evaluation Frameworks
This research-to-practice brief explores teaching practices that promote social-emotional learning (SEL) and positive learning environments. The author begins with an overview of SEL and discusses action steps policymakers and educators can take to support it. Next, the brief provides an overview of 10 teaching practices that encourage the development of SEL. These practices were identified… Read More ›
New Haven Board of Education Reflects on Perceived Success of ‘Student Voice’
This article in the New Haven Register, discusses the impact that Kimberly Sullivan, inaugural student board member, has had on the New Haven Board of Education. Kimberly Sullivan finished her one-year term in June 2016, as the first student member on the New Haven Board of Education to graduate from high school. Sullivan, who was… Read More ›
Notes from the Field: Personalized Learning
This blog series was originally posted on August 31, 2016 by The Center for Reinventing Public Education (CRPE). Students at the Center Hub staff pulled blog quotes. In 2015, CRPE kicked off a multi-year, multi-method study of district and regional systemic efforts to support schools implementing personalized learning. Personalized learning (PL) is designed to tailor… Read More ›
Rhode Island’s Young Voices for Education Reform
My passion for a good quality education started in middle school. I went to the Gordon School, a small private school in East Providence, Rhode Island, that really focused on putting students in the center of the classroom. As a quiet and timid student, my middle school teachers pushed me to raise my hand in… Read More ›
National Online Learning Day
National Online Learning Day showcases how students of all ages are thriving with the ability to learn online—anywhere, anytime. It seeks to cultivate awareness of, and support for, this ever-growing community of learners and to celebrate the future of online education—wherever technology and our imaginations take us! Join the conversation on Twitter using the hashtag… Read More ›
Perspectives on the Current Landscape of Competency-Based Learning Research
Join the Northeast College and Career Readiness Research Alliance (NCCRA) for a researcher, practitioner, and policymaker discussion on competency-based learning in New England and beyond. Paul Leather, deputy commissioner of education for New Hampshire, will discuss the reform in his state and present a case study on the PACE pilot accountability program, which provides alternate… Read More ›
A Space to Be Heard
Flying for the first time to Orlando, Florida all the way from Portland, Maine was an adventure in education empowerment. I was en route to Big Picture Learning’s (BPL) 2016 Big Bang Conference, where I would be sitting on a panel of fellow students and superintendents to discuss student voice in education decision making. To… Read More ›