Principle: Real-World Connections

5 Ways to Build Student Agency in the Digital Age

This article explores the idea that youth today may feel external social forces are controlling their lives much more than their own internal compasses. Taking this into consideration, the article shares tips on how young people can develop their own sense of agency in the digital age. Source Organization: Getting Smart Visit the Resource

Shadow A Student Challenge

When students feel known and valued by an adult at their school, they show up. When they are engaged in relevant, challenging work, they are building competencies for college, career, and civic life. What is it like to be a student at your school? To ride the bus? Juggle the workload? Fit into the culture?… Read More ›

Ambitious Instruction: Towards Deeper Learning on a Larger Scale

Educational reforms come and go from one decade to the next, but the everyday routines of classroom instruction hardly ever seem to change. Why have the culture and practice of teaching been so slow to evolve? What does the most ambitious, deeper teaching entail? And what it will take to scale up such instruction in… Read More ›

Implementation Guide: Starting Student Consulting at Your Site

This implementation guide, created by High Tech High Media Arts (HTHMA) in San Diego, was developed from a six-week consulting program in which Juniors acted as consultants to first year teachers to provide constructive feedback and build dialogue. Providing new teachers with feedback from the student perspective helped foster positive, supportive classroom relationships which serve as the… Read More ›

Teacher Development for Next Gen Learning

Join Next Gen Learning Challenges in a Twitterchat on teacher development to support next gen learning. Chat will take place February 11th from 7-8pm EST. Guests include: Nicole Assisi, Ed. D., CEO, Thrive Public Schools Sajan George, Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Matchbook Learning Beth Rabbit, Partner, The Learning Accelerator Juliana Finegan, Manager of Blended Learning Programs, Relay Graduate… Read More ›

Building Community in 140 Characters or Less

Over the past decade, social media has become news anchor, matchmaker, and replaced the water cooler as our gathering area. Increasingly, it is being used to share and connect stories of people who lack access or sufficient influence to traditional media. Join the MIT Museum as researchers and community leaders share how local issues can turn… Read More ›

5 Key Ways to Engage Young People in Your Next Organizing Campaign

  Chiara Wegener, External Affairs Manager for the Nellie Mae Education Foundation, shares tips and tricks for fostering youth engagement online. How do you engage young people in a digital campaign and move them to action? The Nellie Mae Education Foundation is supporting a number of amazing youth groups around New England that are working to promote student… Read More ›

Continuum of Voice: What it Means for the Learner

This infographic, “Continuum of Voice: What it Means for the Learner,” adapts Students at the Center’s Continuum of Voice chart by adding examples and ideas that illustrate each level to support implementation using a design by Sylvia Duckworth. Source Organization: Personalize Learning Visit the Resource

When Restorative Justice in Schools Works

This article outlines an alternative discipline program- restorative justice which is gaining popularity in public schools from Maine to Oregon. Early adopters of the practice report dramatic declines in school-discipline problems, as well as improved climates on campuses and even gains in student achievement. In traditional school-discipline programs, students face an escalating scale of punishments for… Read More ›