Empowering Students Through Multimedia Storytelling
This article shares programs and strategies that use multimedia storytelling as outlets for student-voice. Author Michael Hernandez argues that by introducing interdisciplinary media projects into the classroom, students can focus more on creating authentic products that can be relevant outside of the classroom. Source Organization: Edutopia Visit the Resource
C-Town Summer Bridge Program: A Professor’s Perspective
Jaime Mahoney, an associate professor at Bunker Hill Community College, shares her involvement as an instructor for the C-Town Tech Summer Bridge Program. Afterwards, be sure to read our “Applying the Framework” summary that connects Jaime’s story to the Students at the Center Framework. As the developer of the 2015 C-Town Tech Summer… Read More ›
Carol Dweck Revisits the “Growth Mindset”
Originally posted on Education Week on September 22, 2015 For many years, I secretly worked on my research. I say “secretly” because, once upon a time, researchers simply published their research in professional journals—and there it stayed. However, my colleagues and I learned things we thought people needed to know. We found that students’ mindsets—how… Read More ›
Six Next-Gen Learning Hubs: Assets, Partners and Challenges
This article highlights six regions (including New England) in the nation that are experimenting with innovative approaches to education reform. These “hubs” will take on next generation learning strategies based on research, best practices, and access to emerging technologies. The article acknowledges assets, partners, and challenges for each region. Source Organization: Getting Smart Visit the… Read More ›
New Blog Series: Students at the Center Everyday
The Students at the Center Hub curates and documents the best student-centered practices online and off to provide the field with strategies to enhance learning experiences for all young people. We prioritize resources, tools, and experiences that reflect the heart of our mission: that all students have access to meaningful opportunities to acquire the skills,… Read More ›
4 Ways to Scale Personalized Learning
This article focuses on opportunities to scale personalized learning. The author identifies design elements that support national, district and regional growth, and offers links to several reports from recent months that show strategies on measuring and scaling personalized learning. Source Organization: Getting Smart Visit the Resource
District Guide to Blended Learning Measurement
This guide, developed by the Learning Accelerator, helps educators understand and deepen blended learning practice in their schools. Included with the guide is a tool that supports measuring effectiveness for existing school or classroom-level blended learning initiatives. Source Organization: The Learning Accelerator Visit the resource
Three Tips to Pump Up Student Voice in Your Classroom
This article highlights strategies to improve student engagement through developing student voice. The author offers three approaches for supporting youth in finding their own voice, including blogging, social media, and other project-based examples. Source Organization: EdSurge Read full article
The Learning Policy Institute
This organization is a national education think tank focused on K-12 learning. The Learning Policy Institute conducts, commissions, and communicates high-quality research to shape policies that support equitable and empowering learning for all children. The Learning Policy Institute’s work includes research and policy analyses surrounding the topics of early childhood learning, deeper learning, educator quality,… Read More ›
Virtual Viewpoints Podcast: Pegah Rahmanian, Youth in Action
This episode is the fifth in our series documenting the Fuse Architect Project, a collaboration between the Nellie Mae Education Foundation, the Highlander Institute, and several other Rhode Island-based stakeholders endeavoring to design and pilot systems that promote student-centered learning. In this episode, we’re talking with Pegah Rahmanian, the Executive Director of Youth in Action.… Read More ›
Teacher Entrepreneurship Week
August 24-27, 2015; 6:00 – 8:45 PM ET Four evenings of interviews, live on Google Hangouts on Air / YouTube. Steve Hargadon guides us through the world of teachers as agents of creation and change. Broadcast for free. Sign up here. An unbelievable lineup. Including: Adam Bellow | Alice Keeler | Angela Maiers | Anne Mirtschin |… Read More ›
Educator Competencies for Personalized, Learner-centered Teaching
Gone is the default image of a teacher—an adult lecturing to students seated neatly in rows, assigning the same textbook pages to everyone, and administering the same quiz on the same day to the entire class, with the expectation of a “normal distribution” of achievement along a bell curve. Instead, teachers in personalized, learner-centered settings… Read More ›