Telling Stories Out of School: Reframing the Education Conversation Through a Core Story Approach
This toolkit is designed to help leading voices in the education sector to build support and cultivate demand for an excellent public school system by building public understanding of issues such as assessment, instruction, and systemic supports and reforms. This set of materials is intended to support communicators in explaining many of the central issues… Read More ›
#edchatme Twitter chat on Student Voice in Education
The Nellie Mae Education Foundation will be hosting a Twitter chat on Thursday and we hope you can attend! Join #EdChatMe (Ed Chat Maine) this Thursday, March 12th from 8 pm – 9 pm EST to talk about student voice in education. You can join the chat simply by following and using the hashtag #EdChatMe.… Read More ›
Revere High School Success Story: Flipped Learning Transforms School Into a Student-centered Environment
This case study tells the story of Revere High School’s ambitious multi-year reform plan, resulting in a school-wide flipped learning approach. Early results showed increased student engagement, homework completion, and attendance rates. Prior to 2011, Revere, a diverse urban high school in Massachusetts, was struggling to meet Department of Elementary and Secondary Education performance standards.… Read More ›
Let’s Get Real: Deeper Learning at Work
While policymakers often use the phrase “college and career readiness” to describe the goals of K-12 education, the truth is that most school reform initiatives focus on college readiness alone. Career readiness is often treated as an afterthought, as if it were just a side-effect of completing a college-prep curriculum and not something to be… Read More ›
An Up Close Look at Student-Centered Math Teaching
This executive summary on a new study from AIR finds that students in high-quality, student-centered classrooms are more engaged and demonstrate higher performance on problem-solving assessments. When teachers use student-centered techniques to engage students in more active and authentic ways, they can transform math classrooms into lively learning environments in which students take charge of… Read More ›
Civic Education and Deeper Learning
This report, authored by Peter Levine and Kei Kawashima-Ginsberg, proposes that the turn toward deeper learning in education reform should go hand in hand with a renewed emphasis on high-quality civics education. Not only does deeper learning have great potential to promote civic outcomes and strengthen our democracy but, at the same time, civic education… Read More ›
SXSWedu
The SXSWedu® Conference & Festival fosters innovation in learning by hosting a diverse and energetic community of stakeholders from a variety of backgrounds in education. The four-day event affords registrants open access to engaging sessions, interactive workshops, hands on learning experiences, cinematic portrayals, early stage startups and a host of networking opportunities. By providing a… Read More ›
More than College Readiness: Engaging Students in Work and Civic Life
When discussing the purposes of secondary education, policymakers often speak of a trio of aims: High schools should prepare all students for college, careers, and civic life. But, in truth, while major recent reform initiatives have focused a great deal of attention on the first of those goals—ensuring that students become “college ready”—they have done… Read More ›
The Deeper Learning Planning Guide
This tool offers practical guidance on the conditions that have to be established for schools to truly change their practices to ensure students leave school with the sophisticated content knowledge and skills needed to be critical thinkers, problem-solvers, collaborators, and communicators. The Planning Guide is designed to be a resource and tool that can be… Read More ›
Achieve Hartford! Website
This organization works to reduce the achievement gap in Hartford. They provide data on current reform progress and school performance in Hartford, commission issue-based research on relevant reform topics to inform a variety of stakeholders, and build coalitions of community partners. One of its major community projects is a push to build public support for… Read More ›
The Basics of Differentiated Instruction
This presentation, presented as the 2003 Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development Summer Conference on Differentiated Instruction, Chicago Illinois, gives an overview of differentiated instruction based mainly on the work of C.A. Tomlinson. Highlights include a visual representation and lists of specific instructional strategies to support students of varied readiness, interests, and learning profiles. It… Read More ›
New Teacher Survival Guide: Differentiating Instruction
This 13-minute video features a new chemistry teacher working with an expert in differentiated instruction to modify a lesson. The goal: to meet the needs of the diverse learners in her classroom. The teacher tries several strategies, including tiered word problems and group work, and discusses her successes and challenges. To facilitate sharing and self-reflection,… Read More ›