Learning in the Time of Corona: Fast Classes and Less Sleep
This article, written by a teacher at the Urban Assembly School for Math and Science for Young Women, an all-girls school serving grades 6 through 12 in downtown Brooklyn, N.Y., highlights student voices. The article features excerpts from interviews with students about their experiences with remote learning. The author hopes other educators can learn from… Read More ›
White Folks Series
This two part webinar series is focused on strategies for engaging in racial equity conversations and actionable next steps. It will be hosted in collaboration between Diversity Talks and a newly founded organization, PR(iSM) RESISTANCE COALITION which specializes in redesigning systems, structures and policies from a diverse, equitable and inclusive lens. The hosts hope to… Read More ›
Rural Community Resource Hub
This website features news and resources related to the Coronavirus outbreak that is of particular importance to rural communities. The site is a collaborative effort informed by rural school administrators and leaders across the country and organized in partnership between Mara Tieken, Associate Professor of Education at Bates College and author of Why Rural Schools… Read More ›
Story as Salve: The Impact of Sharing Lived Experience in Youth Voice Work
I am so tired of being confused. All those years of knowledge, and still I lose. Is it C or B? Should I choose A or D? I second guess myself; which letter will it be? Work your way up the worn linoleum floors of Southwest High School, twisting through packs of students until you… Read More ›
Unleashing Your Innovative Genius: A Conversation with Deborah Olatunji
This is a transcript of an interview with Deborah Olatunji, a high school student from Delaware who recently authored a new book, Unleashing Your Innovative Genius: High School Redesigned, with the goal of igniting young people across the country to realize they have the power to transform education. The interview covers her educational journey including her… Read More ›
A New Way Forward Series: Building a Learner-Centered Future
The COVID-19 pandemic has presented myriad challenges on multiple fronts but it has also provided a unique opening to reinvent how the education system serves our nation’s youth. Learner-centered leaders have been reinventing education in small pockets around the country for decades, and their expertise can help to transform education for every single child in… Read More ›
Ensuring Student-Centered Opportunities for All Students
I trust it is the hope of every principal that the educational debt Ladson-Billings refers to is resolved at the end of each academic year and that all students have achieved equitable learning outcomes. But as we know, academic outcomes are not enough. Schools are expected to educate the whole child too, as evident in… Read More ›
Spring 2020 Youth Summit: Learning and Living Through a Pandemic
Living and Learning During A Pandemic is the theme of this online youth summit, organized by the Mastery Collaborative, a network of student-centered schools in New York City that use culturally responsive and mastery-based practices. This summit was designed to promote student voice and community-building during the COVID-19 school closures. The summit will be structured… Read More ›
What We Know about Successful Instruction in a Digital Environment
Earlier this week, I read this post on Facebook, and it got me thinking… Attention Parents: As we move closer to embarking on what is being called “remote teaching,” I am asking my Facebook friends to refrain from publicly scrutinizing their children’s teachers for the way they are teaching or the lessons they are assigning.… Read More ›
School Closure Toolkit for Teachers
Teachers and parents across the country are taking on new and intimidating things this week. While exhausted from taking care of families, we are trying to provide some stability for the kids’ no longer in the classroom. Many of us feel unclear about our role in the delivery of online learning, and expectations seem to change by the minute. Uncertainty is what we all have in common right… Read More ›
Education Reimagined Young Filmmakers Challenge
Education Reimagined invites young people to participate in the Young Filmmakers Challenge by producing a short film based on the theme: What if “school” as we know it didn’t exist? This challenge encourages students to explore what a completely learner-centered education would look like for them. This nationwide challenge is open to anyone 18 and… Read More ›
Ready for Take Off: Youth Action Researchers at the Intersection (YARI)
At the YARI Kick-Off Event last week, we welcomed into the Student-Centered Learning Research Collaborative family ten youth researchers who are “twice exceptional” — they possess both a learning difference and face marginalization connected to race, language, sexuality, and/or income. KnowledgeWorks is leading the project with our partners from the Center for Youth and Community… Read More ›