Principle: Personalized Learning

Envisioning an Equitable Future Through Personalized Learning

In partnership with The Boston Foundation, the Center for Collaborative Education (CCE) is hosting a free personalized learning convening: Envisioning an Equitable Future Through Personalized Learning. This event will bring together educators to learn more about personalized learning happening in MA, and to think about shaping the future of education across the state and will… Read More ›

Engaging Citizens: Civics, Education and the New Political Landscape

The Boston Foundation and Tisch College for Civic Life at Tufts University are hosting a forum and discussion on the importance of civics education in MA as part of the Understanding Boston series. Understanding Boston is a series of forums, educational events, and research sponsored by the Boston Foundation to provide information and insight into issues… Read More ›

What Four Skill Domains Do Educators Need for Learner-Centered Teaching?

Gone is the default image of a teacher—an adult lecturing to students seated neatly in rows, assigning the same textbook pages to everyone, and administering the same quiz on the same day to the entire class. Instead, teachers in personalized, learner-centered settings are called upon to assess and address individual student needs and help all… Read More ›

Student Agency: Creating An Integrated and Authentic K-12 Approach

This article explores authentic student agency, using California’s Aveson Charter Schools, where the author is founder, to show it in action. It emphasizes the critical role of student agency in a competency-based learning model. The author discusses a number of research-backed practices used at Aveson: The development of foundational or noncognitive skills such as relationship building and self-regulation.… Read More ›

Sixth Annual Boston EdTalk

Boston EdTalks is a celebration of innovation in education that brings educators and leaders from across the city of Boston together during Teacher Appreciation Week to share their unique ideas and innovative classroom practices. The event will include five 10-minute presentations by local teachers. Three of the Nellie Mae Education Foundation Speaker’s Bureau members, Lissette Castillo, Sunny Pai,… Read More ›

Examining Cultural Relevance

This one page tool provides a set of questions to determine the cultural relevance of a given unit, learning task, or project. Many of the strategies for infusing cultural relevance focus on student-centered practices such as inclusion of choice in topics, sources for information, and ways of displaying knowledge learned as well as connection to… Read More ›

Models of Excellence

Models of Excellence is an open resource featuring exemplary pre-K to 12th-grade student work. The collection is curated by EL Education, a collaboration between The Harvard Graduate School of Education and Outward Bound USA, whose mission is to support teachers. The website showcases interdisciplinary projects produced by students around the country. Projects can be searched… Read More ›

Conceptualizing and Designing Work-Based Learning

The Pathways to Prosperity Network is launching a three-part webinar series exploring work-based learning (WBL).  This national network brings together state and regional partners dedicated to connecting K-12 with employers to rethink the way we prepare students for career success. The first webinar in their WBL series will provide an introduction to work-based learning (WBL) and the benefits… Read More ›

Cutting Through the Confusion of Individualized Learning

Individualized learning is one of the major areas of concentration within personalized learning and requires significant changes to school as we know it, moving from a seat-time model to one focused on true competency. In this introduction to individualized learning, Gene Kerns, Ed.D. will address the following questions: What are the three major components of… Read More ›