Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL)
Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) was founded in 1994 by Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence, educator/philanthropist Eileen Rockefeller Growald, and a group of distinguished researchers and practitioners. CASEL is a nonprofit organization that works to advance the science and evidence-based practice of social and emotional learning. Visit the Resource →
Brain Tutor 3D
BrainVoyager Brain Tutor is an award-winning educational program that teaches knowledge about the human brain the easy way. The program lets you interactively explore high-quality 3D head and brain models, which can be rotated, moved, zoomed and morphed in real-time. The head and brain models have been computed with BrainVoyager QX using data from magnetic… Read More ›
Gardener Center for Youth and Communities
Mission The John W. Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities (JGC) at Stanford University partners with communities to develop leadership, conduct research and effect change to improve the lives of youth. Principles Our work is rooted in the principles of community youth development: a community only prospers when its young people prosper, and young… Read More ›
Lead the Change: Amanda Datnow
American Educational Research Association‘s Eduational Change Special Interest Group presents: Lead the Change Series: Q & A with Amanda Datnow. Amanda Datnow discusses how schools can effectively use data for school improvement. Excerpt: “Many schools and schools systems were drawn to the idea of data-driven decision making as high stakes accountability policies came to the… Read More ›
Usable Knowledge
The Usable Knowledge website, managed by the Harvard Graduate School of Education are intended to disseminate key practice and policy lessons derived from current education research. Topic areas include: Leadership and policy Learning and development Decisions through data Community and family Teaching and curriculum Visit the Resource →
Mind, Brain, and Education Journal
Mind, Brain, and Education (MBE), recognized as the 2007 Best New Journal in the Social Sciences & Humanities by the Association of American Publishers’ Professional & Scholarly Publishing Division, provides a forum for the accessible presentation of basic and applied research on learning and development, including analyses from biology, cognitive science, and education. Visit the… Read More ›
CHOICE Academy
CHOICE is a unique school of about 50 students in grades 7 through 12, offering core academics in a way that is very different from a traditional middle or high school. Students take math, science, language arts, and social studies here, but they earn elective credits and all their other graduation requirements outside their abbreviated… Read More ›
SAM Animation
SAM Animation is user-friendly software designed specifically for K-12 students and teachers, allowing for quick and easy creation of stop-motion animations in content ranging from photosynthesis to Newton’s Laws to poetry to fractions. (Students at the Center does not officially endorse SAM Animation, but views it as a resource) Visit the Resource →
Black Male Student Success in Higher Education
Black Male Student Success in Higher Education, a Report from the National Black Male College Achievement Study, moves beyond deficit perspectives on achievement by highlighting persons, policies, programs, and resources that help Black men succeed across a range of college and university contexts. Instead of adding to the now exhaustive body of literature and conversations… Read More ›
Curricular Opportunities in the Digital Age: The Students at the Center Series
This paper explores how new digital technologies can be used to design curricula that are flexible enough to adapt readily to individual differences. The authors propose that universal design for learning—as the confluence of advances in the neuroscience of human variability and in multimedia technologies—can create an “ecology for learning” which provides rich, diverse and… Read More ›
Expeditionary Learning
Expeditionary Learning schools inspire the motivation to learn, engage teachers, and students in new levels of focus and effort, and transform schools into places where students and adults become leaders of their own learning. Expeditionary Learning provides a model that challenges students – even those starting with low skill levels – with high-level tasks and… Read More ›
Big Picture Learning
Big Picture Learning’s mission is to lead vital changes in education, both in the United States and internationally, by generating and sustaining innovative, personalized schools that work in tandem with the real world of the greater community. Big Picture believes that in order to sustain successful schools where authentic and relevant learning takes place, we… Read More ›