Whitmire: The Secret to Building the Next Gen High School? Forget All Your Middle School Successes
This article is about what happened when Blackstone Valley Prep High School received a grant from Next Generation Learning Challenges and adopted Summit Basecamp software, a newly released learning tool. Source Organization: The Seventy Four Visit the Resource
Why Americans Should Not be Coming up With Their Own Solutions to Teacher Training Issues
This article explores why it may be that several other countries are doing a better job than the U.S. in developing teachers. Professional development of American teachers costs up to $18 billion a year with at least half of that spent on workshops for teachers. But no matter how much we spend, it doesn’t seem to… Read More ›
NewSchools Summit
NewSchools Summit is an annual invitation-only gathering for education innovation thought leaders who bring important and diverse perspectives in PreK-12 education. Summit provides a platform for over 1,000 entrepreneurs, educators, community leaders, funders, and policy makers to share ideas on how we can transform public schools so that they prepare all students, in every neighborhood,… Read More ›
2016 GFE Annual Conference
The 2016 Grantmakers for Education Conference—Equity in Education: Conversations We’re Not Having—will be a forum for “undiscussable” topics, an opportunity to bring them out of the shadows. This year’s conference will be held in the Mountain West United States—Denver, Colorado—a region that has been lauded nationally for its progressive K-12 reform initiatives. Despite many successful… Read More ›
EWA National Seminar
The 69th National Seminar for the Education Writers Association, to be held May 1–3, will explore issues related to “The Quest for Quality and Equity” in education and its coverage, as well as other salient topics in the field. More on the conference theme. Three days of dynamic programming and networking opportunities await the estimated 600… Read More ›
ASCD’s Conference on Teaching Excellence
Explore layers of learning at ASCD‘s Conference on Teaching Excellence. Join colleagues in exciting New Orleans for two and a half days of career-empowering knowledge, practices, networking, and practical teaching solutions. The ASCD Conference on Teaching Excellence is designed with your specific needs in mind—providing strategies you can use immediately across all grade levels and… Read More ›
2016 ASCD Conference on Educational Leadership
Brought to you by the publisher of Educational Leadership® magazine, the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) annual Conference on Educational Leadership promises to Explore the connection of school leadership to student achievement. Add important new ideas to your leadership knowledge base. Connect you to the top leaders in school districts across North America, and around… Read More ›
Students Help Design Measures of Social-Emotional Skills
This article explores how Washoe County District, a district in Reno, Nevada, put social-emotional learning in the forefront of their education system. A growing body of research connects skills like responsible decision making, empathy, and responding to emotions with both greater engagement in the classroom and improved academic outcomes. Washoe County District, launched a social-emotional learning… Read More ›
Every Student Succeeds Act Primer: High School Dropout Prevention and Reengagement of Out-of-School Youth
This three-page document provides a comprehensive overview of the Every Student Succeeds Act and its provisions that support High School Dropout Prevention and Reengagement of Out-of-School Youth. The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) of 2015 includes provisions that support state and district efforts to prevent students from dropping out of high school, and to reengage out-of-school youth. It… Read More ›
The Fantastic New Ways to Teach Math that Most Schools Aren’t Even Using
This article, written by Corey Drake, Associate Professor and Director of Teacher Preparation at Michigan State University’s College of Education discusses a short list of ideas and teaching practices that will support how students learn math, and why it is important for teachers to implement them. The list explores teaching practices that work to make student learning meaningful… Read More ›
Advancing Deeper Learning Under ESSA: Seven Priorities
This brief recommends seven ways for supporters of deeper learning to take advantage of the changing education policy landscape, as authority shifts from the federal government to states and local districts. The authors outline priorities to help the nation’s high schools move from a largely inequitable system to one that prepares all students for college… Read More ›
5 Ways to Partner With Your School Counselor on the Common Core
This article provides five ways for teachers and administrators to build productive relationships with school counselors in an effort to enhance progress towards school goals. The suggestions are based on an interview with Daniel Peabody, Maryland’s 2015 Middle School Counselor of the Year. Source Organization: Edutopia Visit the Resource