Four Steps to Transforming a School
This article looks at the four practices that, taken together, create a transformational school environment; an environment where students exhibit agency by achieving academically and taking ownership of their learning. Source Organization: Getting Smart Visit the Resource
ConnectED: Learning Powered by Technology
This website outlines former President Obama’s 5-year effort called ConnectED, with the goal of providing high-speed broadband and wireless to 99 percent of students and improving the skills of teachers—providing every educator in America with support and training to integrate technology into classroom lessons. Preparing America’s students with the skills they need to get good jobs… Read More ›
NewSchools Summit
NewSchools Summit is an annual invitation-only gathering for education innovation thought leaders who bring important and diverse perspectives in PreK-12 education. Summit provides a platform for over 1,000 entrepreneurs, educators, community leaders, funders, and policy makers to share ideas on how we can transform public schools so that they prepare all students, in every neighborhood,… Read More ›
2016 GFE Annual Conference
The 2016 Grantmakers for Education Conference—Equity in Education: Conversations We’re Not Having—will be a forum for “undiscussable” topics, an opportunity to bring them out of the shadows. This year’s conference will be held in the Mountain West United States—Denver, Colorado—a region that has been lauded nationally for its progressive K-12 reform initiatives. Despite many successful… Read More ›
ASCD’s Conference on Teaching Excellence
Explore layers of learning at ASCD‘s Conference on Teaching Excellence. Join colleagues in exciting New Orleans for two and a half days of career-empowering knowledge, practices, networking, and practical teaching solutions. The ASCD Conference on Teaching Excellence is designed with your specific needs in mind—providing strategies you can use immediately across all grade levels and… Read More ›
The Fantastic New Ways to Teach Math that Most Schools Aren’t Even Using
This article, written by Corey Drake, Associate Professor and Director of Teacher Preparation at Michigan State University’s College of Education discusses a short list of ideas and teaching practices that will support how students learn math, and why it is important for teachers to implement them. The list explores teaching practices that work to make student learning meaningful… Read More ›
Youth Leadership Institute Facilitator Fellowship
The Annenberg Institute for School Reform & the Nellie Mae Education Foundation are welcoming applicants for the 2016 Youth Leadership Institute’s Youth Facilitator Fellowship. This (paid) opportunity is for individuals interested in promoting equity, youth voice and student-centered learning in their schools and communities. Facilitators will participate in a YLI Facilitator Fellowship experience that will both support… Read More ›
Student Generated Discussion Spawns Meaningful Learning
This article explores why teachers must demonstrate to students that they can be trusted. They can grow that trust by allowing students to jump in and take control of the direction of their learning. In a classroom, the unexpected can be both scary and exhilarating, which is why there is a need to create environments… Read More ›
What is School? Student Voice and Agency
“We all want our students to become creative critical thinkers who are able to navigate the challenges of the 21st century. To do that, they need to take ownership over their learning, and we need to guide them there. So how do we define student ownership? And how can we develop it in our classrooms… Read More ›
Moving from a Factory Model to…What?
A new campaign, tentatively titled #NextEdStory, is aimed at catalyzing a crowd-sourced, generative discussion among the leaders and converts to student-centered, next generation learning. Next Gen Learning Challenges and Education Reimagined will be hosting a Twitter chat to discuss: While we agree factory school models are a problem, we don’t have a correspondingly clear image or metaphor for what we’re… Read More ›
Learner-Centered Vision Will Frame Next Generation Learning
This article is on the next 20 years of education, framed not by legislation, but by an emerging vision of learner-centered learning. Created by the rise of new tools, new schools, and new informal learning opportunities, a new vision for authentic, engaged, and personalized learning has become widely shared. Supported by nonprofit Convergence, a diverse group… Read More ›
Pittsfield Listens!
This organization brings community members together in a safe and authentic way to share ideas, get informed, discuss issues, support solutions, and help make Pittsfield, New Hampshire, a great place for everyone to live, learn, work, and play. Source Organization: Pittsfield Listens! Visit the Resource