School Leader Habits – Promoting Next Gen Teaching and Learning Models: Small Groups
This webinar will introduce concrete practices school leaders can use to build understanding of and ability to leverage small group instruction to better support teachers and students. This webinar is part of the School Leader Habits – Promoting Next Gen Teaching and Learning Models series designed to help school leaders make small shifts in daily behavior… Read More ›
Fuse19
Fuse19 brings together the worlds of business and education — it is a conference for exploring the possibilities of design thinking, the maker movement, entrepreneurship and innovation. Hosted by the Mount Vernon Institute for Innovation (MVIFI) and Mount Vernon Presbyterian School (MVPS), this multi-day experience brings leaders from education and corporate industries around the country… Read More ›
From a Nation at Risk to a Nation at Hope
The National Commission on Social, Emotional, and Academic Development was created to engage and energize communities in re-envisioning learning to encompass its social, emotional, and cognitive dimensions so that all children can succeed in school, career, and life. This culminating report draws on the information gathered over two years from conversations, meetings, and site visits… Read More ›
Building Equity: Practices That Empower All Learners
In this webinar, Dr. Doug Fisher, Professor of Educational Leadership at San Diego State University and co-author of Building Equity will introduce the Building Equity Taxonomy. Building Equity focuses on equitable practices and outcomes that support critical standards of equity in a school or district. He will discuss how this new model can help education leaders… Read More ›
Personalized Learning Summit
This two day summit brings together district and school leaders looking to increase personalized learning their districts. The event features many professional development opportunities, such as sessions, networking events, keynote presentations, and tours of companies in the area. The event attracts around 750 participants each year. This event will take place in Atlanta, Georgia on… Read More ›
Learning in the 21st Century
During this webinar Digital Promise’s Learner Variability Project (LVP) will release findings from their national survey of the American public, teachers, and parents on issues related to students’ learning experiences. Joining LVP will be Patricia Saxler, head of education at POPULACE, who will elaborate on why the science of the individual matters in learning. Dr.… Read More ›
When Personalized Learning Also Boosts Special Education Students
This article looks at Brooklyn Laboratory Charter School which is successfully serving a large number of students with learning disabilities, in part because of its commitment to personalizing learning. Students progress at their own rate, not in grade-by-grade lockstep. Teachers are trained to give all students targeted, individualized support with the help of an integrated student information… Read More ›
The Springfield Renaissance School- Becoming a Truly Integrated School
The Springfield Renaissance School, an EL Education Mentor School, was founded in 2006. Renaissance is an urban, gr. 6-12 college bound school serving 700 students. In this Site Seminar, participants and members of the Renaissance community engage together in an exploration of their guiding question: How do we create a truly integrated school: one that… Read More ›
Reinventing Project-Based Learning: Real-World Projects in the Digital Age
Based on The International Society for Technology in Education’s (ISTE) popular title Reinventing Project-Based Learning: Your Field Guide to Real-World Projects in the Digital Age, Third Edition; Suzie Boss and Jane Krauss will lead a conversation to help participants maximize the effectiveness of project-based learning (PBL). Participants will come away from this edWebinar with: A critical… Read More ›
Shift Your Paradigm
In partnership with Education Reimagined, TLTalkRadio hosts Randy Ziegenfuss and Lynn Fuini-Hetten host this podcast focused on learner-centered learning and leadership. Episodes address the dynamic question: Does leadership look different in the learner-centered paradigm compared to the school-centered paradigm? The hosts interview pioneers from across the nation. In the featured kick-off episode, they lay the… Read More ›
What Student-Centered Schools Look Like
This Education Week special report offers practical examples of student-centered strategies to help schools better meet the personal and academic needs of learners. Strategies highlighted include making classroom content more engaging; helping students forge bonds with each other; prioritizing students in the school’s professional development and discipline approaches; supporting students’ lifestyle needs including mealtimes, sleep, and… Read More ›
Guide to Schoolwide SEL
Schoolwide social and emotional learning (SEL) engages the entire school community in creating caring, motivating, and equitable learning environments that promote social, emotional, and academic growth. This guide developed by the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) leads school-based teams through a process for systemic SEL implementation. The well organized toolkit moves through the… Read More ›