Student Voice: Experiencing Deeper Learning Through PBL
Although high school student Rahil had some academic struggles after immigrating from Fiji just a few years ago, he found opportunity and purpose in the project-based curriculum at Impact Academy. For more information about deeper learning, visit http://www.edutopia.org/blog/deeper-l… Source Organization: edutopia VISIT THE RESOURCE
What Does Deeper Learning Look Like?
In this video, you meet the students and teachers of City Arts and Education Technology (CAT). The high school experience at CAT is entirely focused on supporting students so they can be successful in college, career and life. Staff and students alike are very focused on creating an understanding, a culture, and an expectation of… Read More ›
Assessing Their Own Work: Students as Active Participants
This video, part of a playlist of student-centered ideas showcases how students can be active participants in assessing their own work. For so many years, students would receive grades and not know where they came from, what assignments led up to them, how they would be assessed. Now they’re involved in not only creating the units… Read More ›
Student-Centered Learning and the Achievement Gap
The Nellie Mae Education Foundation President & CEO Nick Donohue talks about how student-centered learning can help close the achievement gap. Source Organization: The Nellie Mae Education Foundation VISIT THE RESOURCE
Flipping the Classroom Explained
This video, while promotional, gives a high-level overview of “flipping the classroom,” is well-done and accessible. The video is helpful to those who are new to flipped learning. It could be shown to parents and students to explain the model. It could also be used as an introduction for interested teachers. Source Organization: Workday
Student Voices: Improving Education for All Learners, 2013
Produced by CAPSS, representing Connecticut’s superintendents, and CAS, representing Connecticut’s principals, and featuring interviews with winners of the 1st Annual Student Voices in Education Contest. Source Organization: CT NextEd VISIT THE RESOURCE
Student Voice Matters: Resources
To support organizations and districts interested in implementing student-voice policies such as constructive feedback or student involvement in teacher evaluation, Student Voice Matters has created a page of resources that includes: surveys on school climate; student-to-teacher constructive feedback form; student-to-administrator feedback form. Source Organization: Youth on Board Visit The Resource
Student Voice Matters
In 2013, Youth on Board and the Boston Student Advisory Council launched the We are the Ones in the Classroom – Ask Us! national campaign to involve students in providing feedback and evaluation to their teachers with the help of the W. K. Kellogg Foundation. This website includes project ideas and resources for increasing student… Read More ›
10 Expectations for a Student-Centered Learning Environment
This video provides 10 expectations for a student-centered learning environment. We hear often of the “high expectations” schools must have of and for their students, yet we seldom hear of the expectations students have of their schools. Students’ expectations constitute the new “rules of engagement” in the relationship that young people want with their schools.… Read More ›
Mentors that Matter
Who are the significant adults in the lives of teenagers, beyond the home and classroom? How do they reach out to youth, and why? In the first six months of 2007, youth across the nation gave their answers, as they interviewed, photographed, and publicly honored “Mentors That Matter” in four cities (Chicago, Providence, San Francisco,… Read More ›
Service Learning: Powerful Learning with Public Purpose
Day in and out, What Kids Can Do aims to spread a more capacious view of “what kids can do” when given the opportunities and supports they deserve-a vision that makes room for real-world problem solving, teamwork, character and citizenship, learning from mistakes, creativity, social justice, and contribution. Service learning, at its best, provides a… Read More ›
Student Research for Action
From 2003 – 2006, What Kids Can Do provided competitive grants to high school students nationwide, inviting them to tackle important school and community issues. Here we provide a rich archive of this initiative. Student Research for Action sends several critical messages: that complex problem solving, independent judgment, and teamwork merit a place in every… Read More ›