Teaching Digital Literacy
This webinar will focus on instructional strategies that help students increase their digital literacy. Michelle Luhtala, Library Department Chair, New Canaan High School, CT, will outline distinctions between media literacy and digital literacy, and highlight how each can be addressed in the classroom and through the library program. The program will also focus on digital… Read More ›
Engaging Students in Work that Matters
This video, a part of the Deeper Learning video series, features instructors and students from High Tech Middle and High Tech High Media Arts School in San Diego, California. The video illustrates how teachers collaborate across disciplines to engage students in real world projects that capitalize on their passions and foster deep learning. The excellent visuals of students… Read More ›
Leading for Equity: Opportunities for State Education Chiefs
This report from The Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) and The Aspen Education & Society Program outlines concrete steps states can take to support equity in education. After short sections on the definition of equity and the reasons it matters, the guide lays out ten steps state education agencies can take. These recommendations… Read More ›
Mom, Can You Pleeeease Record Me?
This opinion blog by Lisa Westman, an instructional coach specializing in differentiation for Skokie School District 73.5 in suburban Chicago, discusses ways to harness video recording in the classroom. She asserts that teachers can capitalize on students frequent use of video recording in their personal lives. A graphic outlines several ways teachers can use video to demonstrate learning, track… Read More ›
ASCD Empower17
The ASCD Empower17 conference has been redesigned by educators, for educators. It will bring together teachers, principals, instructional coaches, superintendents, and other educators. The conference has been set up to empower participants to create their own personalized professional learning experience. Content will focus on supporting the whole child. Keynote and special session speeches, interactive panel… Read More ›
EdWeek Leaders To Learn From
At this all day event, Education Week will recognize bold school-system leaders who will share how they brought about change in their districts. Every year, Education Week identifies some of the nation’s most exceptional school district leaders, and shines a spotlight on their impact in a “Leaders to Learn From” special report. Through registration for video… Read More ›
2017 STEM + Entrepreneurship Conference
The 2017 STEM + Entrepreneurship Conference is a student-organized, online event which will feature keynote speakers and crowd-sourced presentations by students in grades 6-12 and college. The online conference provides an international forum for the presentation, discussion, and sharing of best practices in science, technology, engineering, mathematics and entrepreneurship in schools and other academic settings, including: Fostering a better understanding… Read More ›
How to Create Higher Performing, Happier Classrooms in 7 Moves: A Playbook for Teachers
This guide, written by Heather Staker, Adjunct Fellow at the Christensen Institute, draws on findings from a pilot study of 7 student-centered practices. Researchers from the Christensen Institute first studied the management principles of companies ranked as great places to work, then translated them into classroom practices that might motivate students. Teachers from three California schools… Read More ›
Making Students Partners Rather Than Pawns in the Change Process
What if we had a window into the thoughts and beliefs of students experiencing the transition to a student-centered model? How would the insights inform our strategies to support young people through this paradigm shift? How might students, themselves, be advocates for these changes? Some believe that it is the adults who are reluctant to… Read More ›
What Learning to Code Means for Students
“Coding is the new literacy. To thrive in tomorrow’s society, young people must learn to design, create and express themselves with digital technologies.” –Mitchel Resnick, MIT Media Lab Professor What does “coding is the new literacy” really mean? As programming languages evolve, what students learn today won’t be applicable within a decade or less. Coding… Read More ›
Personalized Learning in Practice: How a Risk-Taker Tailored Learning in Her District
This in-depth article, from EdWeek’s Leaders to Learn from series, features Patricia Deklotz, superintendent of the Kettle Moraine School District in Wales, WI. Over 17 months, Deklotz and a task force of 25 educators transformed the small district of 4,100 students to a personalized learning model. The article shares the process of this transformation, including what motivated her… Read More ›
An Overview of Personalized Learning for Schools, Families & Communities
This report provides an overview of student-centered learning for families and community members, using parent-friendly language, short explanations, and many examples. The report first outlines the need for and the basics of personalized learning. It explores, through five short case studies, personalized learning in action and how it differs from traditional learning environments. It also… Read More ›