Lessons from Teachers of the Year
This vast list of videos showcases lessons from teachers across the country. The ‘Lessons from Teachers of the Year’ series is a partnership between Google for Education and CCSSO that aims to elevate the teaching profession and capture the thinking of some of the United States’ best educators. These videos were designed to help fellow… Read More ›
Have You Ever Seen a Black Band-Aid?
As I have thought about describing my experiences with racial inequity in America, I wanted to do more than simply talk about the overt signs of bigotry we see in the headlines. It certainly would be easy to point to police violence against young black males and other sensational yet sobering news stories in the… Read More ›
Student Goal Setting: An Evidence-Based Practice
The Midwest Comprehensive Center at American Institutes for Research, with the help of What Works Clearinghouse House reviewers, has released a new resource on student goal setting to support state departments of education who are interested in promoting evidence-based personalized and deeper learning strategies by districts/schools in their states. The act of goal setting is a… Read More ›
Resources for Creating a School Culture of Empathy, Inclusion and Kindness
This tool offers lessons, activities, classroom tools, and more to help students learn about character strengths. In response to gun violence in schools, many educators asked for resources to support students’ social and emotional development. A positive school climate can support academic gains in addition to increased well being and sense of belonging. This list… Read More ›
Exhibits: Models of Excellence
This virtual exhibit showcases student projects. It offers video, pictures, interviews, and articles to tell the story of the group projects students have designed to make a difference in their communities. Examples feature students in grade levels k-12. Topics include: Community-wide “Day of Peace” to raise awareness about gun violence State-wide literacy campaign Coral Reef… Read More ›
Learner-Centered Educator and Leadership Competencies – Interview with Rebecca Wolfe
In this podcast, Rebecca Wolfe, one of the co-authors of the Educator and Leadership Competencies, talks about her work on educator and leadership competencies for learner-centered, personalized education. This podcast is helpful to learn how to distinguish learner-centered from the dominant school-centered paradigm. In addition, the participants discuss why is it important for educators to specifically and… Read More ›
Don’t ask which ed tech products work, ask why they work
Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every Tuesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Subscribe today! What makes educational technology initiatives succeed or fail? Hint: It’s not just the technology. A new nonprofit, formed out of the Jefferson Education Accelerator… Read More ›
Thinking About Surveying Students and Stakeholders?
In this webinar, YouthTruth will share interactive methods to get student and stakeholder feedback. Educators have a wealth of academic data, but too often lack data on the important less-tangible aspects of the school experience such as engagement, rigor, and school culture. This webinar aims to help provide instructional and climate indicators that are critical levers… Read More ›
The Learning Portfolio Project
This website documents a pilot program in which Dream Yard Preparatory School in NYC partnered with Parsons School for Design to roll out the use of Learning Portfolios with students. The “Our Progress” page provides a nice overview of how the teachers learned to use this assessment tool and support students. The “Portfolios” page provides… Read More ›
12 Educational Apps To Create Digital Portfolios
This article provides a list of apps to help students create digital portfolios. Digital portfolios can support learning by allowing students and teachers to measure growth over time. The author includes a short description of each app which note features and price for each app. These apps can be used by any educator teaching any… Read More ›
Designing Engaging Assignments
This resource aims to help teachers design engaging assignments that can challenge students in innovative ways. Beth Pandolpho shares three suggestions to make assignments more dynamic at school in order to provide deeper learning and keep students more engaged. The three suggestions to help students understand the value of the work they do are: Provide… Read More ›
Top Picks: Student Portfolio Apps and Websites
This list from Common Sense Education highlights 17 tools for creating digital student portfolios. Portfolios allow teachers to assess student learning and students to track their own progress. These tech tools offer students virtual binders, folders, web pages, and galleries for collecting everything from text to video. Teachers can easily browse through and access student… Read More ›