Virtual Viewpoints Podcast: Pegah Rahmanian, Youth in Action
This episode is the fifth in our series documenting the Fuse Architect Project, a collaboration between the Nellie Mae Education Foundation, the Highlander Institute, and several other Rhode Island-based stakeholders endeavoring to design and pilot systems that promote student-centered learning. In this episode, we’re talking with Pegah Rahmanian, the Executive Director of Youth in Action.… Read More ›
Equitable Access to Deeper Learning: A Focus on Students With Disabilities
This article highlights a recent report commissioned by Jobs for the Future (authored by Sharon Vaughn, director of the Meadows Center at the University of Texas, and Louis Danielson, Rebecca Zumeta, and Lynn Holdheide of the American Institutes for Research) that describes the role deeper learning can play in supporting students with various kinds of disabilities.… Read More ›
Introducing the Fuse Architect Schools – Central High School
Central High School (Central) is the second school from the Providence Public School District selected for the Fuse Architect program. Central High School is actively working to become a more student-centered and student-directed school. Central’s Fuse Architect design team believes that “anytime, anywhere learning” is an important part of building an educational model that… Read More ›
Introducing the Fuse Architect Schools – Barrington High School
The only high school within the district of Barrington Public Schools, the school population information for the 2016-17 school year is shared in the table below. # of students % of Free and Reduced Lunch % of English as a Second Language % of Special Education Services 1000 6% 1% 11% Barrington High School… Read More ›
Virtual Viewpoints Podcast: Emily Zilly and Students, Rogers High School
This episode is the fifth in our series documenting the Fuse Architect Project, a collaboration between the Nellie Mae Education Foundation, the Highlander Institute, and several other Rhode Island-based stakeholders endeavoring to design and pilot systems that promote student centered learning. In this episode, we’re excited to talk with Emily Zilly, science teacher at Rodgers… Read More ›
Teacher Entrepreneurship Week
August 24-27, 2015; 6:00 – 8:45 PM ET Four evenings of interviews, live on Google Hangouts on Air / YouTube. Steve Hargadon guides us through the world of teachers as agents of creation and change. Broadcast for free. Sign up here. An unbelievable lineup. Including: Adam Bellow | Alice Keeler | Angela Maiers | Anne Mirtschin |… Read More ›
Educator Competencies for Personalized, 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, with the expectation of a “normal distribution” of achievement along a bell curve. Instead, teachers in personalized, learner-centered settings… Read More ›
Students at the Center Research Series
Students at the Center began with a series of nine research papers, developed in partnership between Jobs for the Future and the Nellie Mae Education Foundation, drawing attention to the importance of engaging each student in acquiring the skills, knowledge and expertise needed for success in college and a career. In fall 2013, Students at… Read More ›
Fuse Architects Take Off in 2017
What if the best way to make decisions about education technology starts off with not thinking about technology at all? This is the approach the Fuse Architect project took as they began their work this past spring. Rather than jumping into product selection, Fuse Architect participants spent the first phase thinking much more broadly.… Read More ›
Partner Collaboration Key to Highlander Institute’s Vision for Fuse Architect Success
As the Highlander Institute embarks on its Fuse Architect initiative with NMEF, six LEAs and seven high schools, collaborations with external partners are in the forefront. In this blog, we highlight key partners working with Highlander Institute to help make the vision for student centered learning and integrated learning systems a reality for participating… Read More ›
Q&A with Rebecca Wolfe, personalized learning’s biggest advocate
What would schools look like if they were designed around the needs of students? That’s the question that drives the work of Rebecca Wolfe, director of the Massachusetts-based Students at the Center project, part of the nonprofit Jobs For the Future. Called “personalized learning,” the idea sounds simple: Let the students dictate the direction and… Read More ›
#NGLCchat Twitter Chat on Learner Profiles and PLPs
Please join a twitter chat sponsored by the Next Generation Learning Challenges on the topic of: Learner Profiles and PLPs featuring special guests: Scott Frauenheim, Principal, and team from CICS West Belden @scott1639 Nicole Assisi, CEO of Thrive Public Schools @DocAssisi Kendra Rickerby, School Effectiveness Coordinator at Vermont Agency of Education @rickerbyKL You can join… Read More ›