Clipboards: A Tool for Informal Assessment
In this short video, an experienced teacher and math coach shares an informal strategy for formative assessment and lesson planning: classroom clipboard. She explains the many ways she uses the informal notes she takes as she observes and interacts with student groups for formative assessment. To facilitate sharing and self reflection, The Teaching Channel provides… Read More ›
Leadership Teams Pursue Powerful Instruction
This six minute video features the story of a high-poverty school using leadership teams to transform teaching to become more focused on student-centered learning. It includes footage of teams in action, discussing topics such as methods for formative assessment. To facilitate sharing and self reflection, The Teaching Channel provides free videos highlighting real teachers implementing… Read More ›
Teaching ELA: Evidence & Arguments Series
This video series highlights a student-centered approach to teaching the ELA core standard “Evidence and Arguments.” Three videos follow the lesson planning, teaching, and post-analysis. The lesson includes many ways to experience a text through close reading, group work, group feedback, a Socratic discussion, and writing a persuasive blog post. An experienced teacher discusses the… Read More ›
OER Commons
This website, Open Education Resource (OER) Commons, is a database of over 50,000 open educational resources and free digital content tools including lesson plans, electronic textbooks, and interactive mini lessons. The database is searchable by subject, grade, and material type. Each entry includes clear terms of use and access to the alignment tool to evaluate… Read More ›
Parent Leadership Training Institute
This website trains parents in the greater Hartford, CT area to become change agents and advocates for their children. It includes a pdf overview of the topics covered as well as helpful tips on recruiting and interviewing parent participants and lessons learned about organizing groups of parents to become advocates. The institute also has a… Read More ›
College and Career Academy Support Network
This site brings together resources for career and college high school academies. The site includes links to curriculum and other content resources, support organizations, and many tools and guides, such as the Master Schedule Guide for schools using a linked learning or multiple pathways/academies approach. While the site is most relevant to California Partnership academies,… Read More ›
Student Voice Rubric
This rubric is designed to help schools assess their inclusion of student voices in six key areas such as school governance and classroom culture. It also helps schools think through the qualities of student voices, including real leadership roles and appealing to students’ interests. The tool is the culmination of one year of research by… Read More ›
What Should School Be? A Student-centered Road Trip
This six minute video follows a group of Vermont high school students visiting a model school in Providence, Rhode Island to learn about personalized student-centered learning. The video focuses on the students’ experience organizing, attending, and debriefing from the trip. Source Organization: Partnership for Change
Partnership for Change
This website, established in 2012, brings together local nonprofit and education organizations, government, and businesses within the school districts of Burlington and Winooski, Vermont to improve student-centered education. They are working in partnership to implement five levers of change: strengthening youth engagement and leadership, reshaping teaching and learning, personalized and proficiency based learning, family and… Read More ›
Supporting Student Success Through Time and Technology
This report details the current blended learning approaches at six expanded learning time schools across the country, and highlights their lessons learned. Additionally, it outlines seven design and implementation steps for practitioners interested in using technology to personalize student learning. Supporting Student Success is a guide for district leaders and school practitioners interested in implementing… Read More ›
2015 Student Technology Conference
The 2015 Student Technology Conference (StuTech 2015), a student-organized global conversation about technology in education, takes place Saturday, January 31st from 9am – 9pm US-Eastern Standard Time. This online event (held in Blackboard Collaborate) is open to all and will feature student keynote speakers and conference presentations by students in grades 6-12. We hope you will… Read More ›
It’s About Time: Lessons from Expanded Learning Time in Meriden, Conn.
This handbook was created for unions and districts who are interested in, or working towards, putting an expanded learning model into place in traditional community schools. It’s About Time provides lessons learned from Meriden, Connecticut, following the planning, design, implementation, and plans for scale of this model, detailing the collaborative efforts of the Meriden Public Schools and the… Read More ›