Real-World Projects: How do I Design Relevant and Engaging Learning Experiences?
In this book, project-based learning expert Suzie Boss explains how real-world projects engage and motivate students while teaching relevant, rigorous content and skills that align with standards and put learners on the path to active citizenship. Source Organization: ASCD Visit the Resource
School Spotlight: Portland Arts & Technology High School
The Students at the Center Hub team spoke with Tina Mikkelsen, the community coordinator for the Portland Arts & Technology High School (PATHS) program, to learn more about the student-centered work that happens onsite. What is PATHS? Portland Arts & Technology High School is a Career Technical Center located in Portland, Maine. We serve students… Read More ›
Teaching for Deeper Learning for All Students
The Alliance for Excellent Education (the Alliance) and the National Commission on Teaching and America’s Future (NCTAF) will be hosting their third webinar in a series designed to explore the conditions needed to support great teaching for deeper learning. The promising practices, recommendations, and lessons learned will inform a collective effort, led by NCTAF, around… Read More ›
“Are We Teaching STEM Wrong?” Highlights from Solve Talks at Google
On January 13th, I had the good fortune of attending the Solve Talk, “Are We Teaching STEM Wrong?” hosted by Google, Solve MIT, Kara Miller, and MassChallenge. The panel, moderated by Ms. Miller, included Arthur Levine, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Chris Rogers, Tufts, and Tina Grotzer, Harvard Graduate School of Education. As many of these panels… Read More ›
Center on Reinventing Public Education
This organization is a research and policy analysis center at the University of Washington developing system-wide solutions for K–12 public education. The Center on Reinventing Public Education’s research and policy analysis is focused on the complex systemic challenges affecting public education. CRPE develops, tests, and supports evidence-based solutions to create new possibilities for the parents,… Read More ›
JumpRope
This organization helps educators implement standards-based grading in every classroom through innovative assessment and feedback. JumpRope provides the web-based platform that great teachers and schools need to engage students with active pedagogy, purposeful planning, and authentic learning experiences. With the tools to make standards-based grading easy, teachers are freed to create, propel, and inspire, and students… Read More ›
Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
This organization is committed to developing networks of ideas, individuals, and institutions to advance teaching and learning. The Carnegie Foundation joins together scholars, practitioners, and designers in new ways to solve problems of educational practice. They work to integrate the discipline of improvement science into education with the goal of building the field’s capacity to… Read More ›
Games And Learning (Dot Org)
This organization is a news and information service aimed at increasing the amount of information available for those interested in developing and funding new educational games for children and young adults. The site is operated by the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop and is a project of the Games and Learning Publishing Council.… Read More ›
Diploma Plus
This organization believes in personalized learning as a systematic strategy to creating equitable education conditions, access, and outcomes that enable underserved youth to complete high school college- and career-ready. In addition to an overview of the organization, this website features an introduction to the Diploma Plus model, which features four essentials for success: Performance-Based Systems, Supportive… Read More ›
Learn About BDEA From Our Students
This video takes a look at Boston Day and Evening Academy through the eyes of its students and teachers. Boston Day and Evening Academy was designed to serve students that are over age, have previously dropped out, or have not experienced success at other schools. The school is open 12 hours a day and over… Read More ›
What is Competency-Based Education?
This one-page overview of “competency-based education” explains the differences between this and a more traditional approach to student assessment and progression. This overview describes the competency-based learning system at Boston Day and Evening Academy in which students are placed on a learning path, rather than a grade level, based on their demonstrated skills. Students take… Read More ›
Education Commission of the States
This organization was created in 1965 for state policy makers to share education research and expertise with each other. Today Education Commission of the States (ECS) provides state policy makers advice and consultation on policy plans and proposed legislation, testimony at legislative hearings, policy research on any education topic, and connections to state leaders grappling… Read More ›