Yale Education Leadership Conference
Each year, the Yale SOM Education Leadership Conference gathers over 750 education experts, practitioners, and leaders to discuss innovations in K-12 education reform. The theme of this year’s conference, Fostering the Ecosystem for Change, will ask participants to explore various approaches to promoting educational equality and creating lasting social change through education. Through panels, keynotes, and small group… Read More ›
Visioning Toolkit: Laying the Groundwork for a Community-Wide Vision for Personalized Learning
In this toolkit you’ll find the following resources to help you begin and sustain the work of implementing personalized learning: Guidance on crafting a system-wide vision for personalized learning, incorporating diverse stakeholder voices Questions and considerations for finding the right people to champion the work of personalizing learning Direction on how to identify factors that may impact… Read More ›
ASCD Empower18
The ASCD Empower18 conference will bring together teachers, principals, instructional coaches, superintendents, and other educators. Content will focus on supporting the whole child to engage and prepare students to navigate their careers, contribute to their communities, and identify their interests. The conference is organized to let participants create their own personalized professional learning experience. A wide… Read More ›
Universal Design Technology
John F. O’Sullivan is a Librarian, an Assistive Technology Specialist at Chelmsford High School, and an author of several books on educational technology. This resource is a detailed catalog of educational and assistive technology divided by categories. These include apps and other resources to support: Note-Taking Memory Special Education Occupational Therapy Speech and Language Augmentative… Read More ›
10 Game-Changing Ideas in Education
In this article, editors at EdWeek have compiled 10 commentaries that outline exciting ideas in the field of education. For example: In The Secret to Student Engagement authors Chip & Dan Heath assert that “peak moments”, events that represent the culmination of students’ work are remembered long after the event and can create engagement and motivation… Read More ›
Student-Centered Learning-in-Action: Students explore “Fact and Fiction”; Inspire a Principal
I am a high school principal. More importantly, I am an educational leader who is a proponent of student-centered learning – learning that is competency-based, can occur anytime and anywhere, personalized, and promotes student voice and choice. I am at a new school, in a new state. I recently moved from Vermont, a state that… Read More ›
Meeting ESSA Guidelines With UDL/Personalized Learning
During this webinar, creative learning strategist and co-author of Make Learning Personal and How to Personalize Learning, Barbara Bray, will lead a live discussion on meeting ESSA requirements with UDL/personalized learning approaches. She will discuss how teachers can meet their state’s new ESSA requirements with a learner-centered approach that is built on solid UDL and personalized… Read More ›
Teaching Media Literacy in the Classroom
Media literacy is an important skill both in and outside of the classroom for students of all ages. Educators can teach students how to use their close reading skills to become critical thinkers and give them tools to analyze and evaluate the content presented to them online. Susannah Moran from myON will share best practices,… Read More ›
Quality Counts 2018
Every year, Education Week releases a Quality Counts report which examines state-level efforts to improve public education and pulls together a large number of statistics to create a picture of progress in each state. To provide a more in-depth look, Education Week will now provide this data in three reports rolled out over the course of the year. The first,… Read More ›
Teaching with Technology
This report looks at how teachers are integrating new technology and tools into their classroom practice. It identifies common benefits and challenges in the collective experience of educators throughout the country. The report draws on a survey of teachers in 38 states, interviews with teachers and administrators, and school and classroom observations. This research included… Read More ›
Key Teaching and Learning Shifts for Personalized Learning: Preparing for Success
This webinar recording focuses on the key teaching and learning shifts that occur in successful personalized learning settings over time from the perspective of students, teachers, and district and building leaders. It includes a discussion of the specific skills teachers and students use in many personalized learning settings, the key shifts in instructional planning and… Read More ›
Writing Commentaries: The Power of Youth Voice
This video shows a producer from Youth Radio in Oakland, CA working with students to produce their own commentaries. It discusses why commentaries can be powerful tools to spark discussion and stimulate civic engagement. It includes prompts to help students uncover a meaningful story they want to share, components of good commentaries, and tips for… Read More ›