5 Ways to Build Real Teacher-Student Connections for the Year Ahead
In this article, a veteran teacher shares ideas to create meaningful relationships with students. She asserts the importance of personal individual relationships to support students’ engagement. She includes practical tips and suggestions to begin building these relationships from the first day of school. This practical advice will be helpful for teachers of any subject at… Read More ›
Learn Next: A Toolbox for Educators to Transform Practice
Every student deserves access to powerful learning experiences — experiences that help them develop agency, grow their skills and expand their curiosities. Many schools are shifting their practices to be more student-centered in hopes of ultimately developing these qualities in students. We know in transformative environments that the learning and facilitation looks very different. This type of… Read More ›
Five Ways to Help Students Ask Better Questions
In this article, the author explores practical ways to help students learn to generate their own essential questions. It looks at the important role of active inquiry in fostering deep learning and then unpacks 5 strategies to help students develop this important skill. These suggestions can be used by teachers in any subject or grade… Read More ›
EdSurge Fusion – Personalized Learning for the Whole Learner
Personalized learning is not just about the technology. At Fusion 2018 we will bridge the gap between theory and practice—focusing not just on technology but integrating what learning sciences, community development, and social-emotional research can teach us about the holistic picture of personalized learning in schools and districts. EdSurge Fusion brings the best and brightest… Read More ›
Understanding and Supporting Students with Mental Health and Learning Disorders
In this edWebinar, clinical psychologist Dr. Myles Cooley will provide guidelines on supporting students and communicating with them and their parents to help them with any mental health disorders. Dr. Cooley will talk about various mental health and learning disorders, clarify misunderstandings, and explain new or revised diagnoses. This online session will feature important information about ADHD, dyslexia,… Read More ›
Building Students’ Problem-Solving Skills Through Complex Challenges
This webinar will discuss how to help students with learning experiences that prepare them to creatively respond to uncertainty. Presented by Ronald Beghetto, author of What If? Building Students’ Problem-Solving Skills Through Complex Challenges, this webinar provides opportunities for K-12 educators to learn practical strategies for addressing various ideas such as: How to foster “possibility… Read More ›
A National Landscape Scan of Personalized Learning in K-12 Education in the United States
This publication provides findings from a national survey of teachers and students to underscore how, and to what extent, core elements of personalized learning are taking hold in K-12 schools and districts across the United States. iNACOL partnered with the Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE), NORC at the University of Chicago, and LEAP Innovations… Read More ›
Coming Soon: New Findings from the Student-Centered Learning Research Collaborative
Leaders in education rarely have the bandwidth to comb through technical studies in order to apply research findings in their classroom. JFF’s Student-Centered Learning Research Collaborative is cutting through the clutter to deliver useful research findings presented in actionable ways. If you’re an educator, administrator, district leader, or state-level official interested in using student-centered learning… Read More ›
How Turning to My Students Made Me a Better Teacher
I was frustrated. My students weren’t completing their homework, and I’d run out of ideas for motivating them. I didn’t know what to do. The books I’d read and strategies I’d tried got me nowhere, and despite dealing with the same problem, my peers had no solutions. So, after days, weeks, and months of frustration,… Read More ›
EdTech Connect Venture Cafe
Venture Cafe’s Ed-Tech mini-conference, “Innovation in Education & Educational Services” takes place on August 30th, 2018. This special ‘conference night’ event seeks to bring together the brightest minds who are building, funding, and innovating in the Greater Boston area’s Education Community. This event will provide opportunities not only hear the best ideas and see the latest… Read More ›
Want To Get To Know Your Students? Try Learner Profiles
Each year, I am approached by students with the same concern: They don’t feel that their teachers understand who they are, and they often fail to see how what they are learning is necessary or relevant. When reflecting on these concerns with my colleagues, we all agreed that we don’t know our students as well… Read More ›
Camp C-Block Introduces Blockchain Technology to Black Girls
This article discusses the work done by Project Bitmobile. Project Bitmobile hopes to educate, inform, and inspire young black women in the fields of coding, cyber security, cryptography and blockchain technology. The founder will be touring the country in an RV in the summer and fall teaching young black women about these emerging technologies through… Read More ›