Yale Education Leadership Conference
Each year, the Yale SOM Education Leadership Conference gathers over 750 education experts, practitioners, and leaders to discuss innovations in K-12 education reform. The theme of this year’s conference, Fostering the Ecosystem for Change, will ask participants to explore various approaches to promoting educational equality and creating lasting social change through education. Through panels, keynotes, and small group… Read More ›
Mindset Research Is Sound, That’s Not the Problem
Originally posted on Education Week’s 10 Big Ideas column on January 10, 2018. My career has been motivated by two questions: What underlies opportunity gaps in educational outcomes? And how can we use empirical insights to help close them? My first attempt to use scientific evidence to improve educational practice was with a team of… Read More ›
ASCD Empower18
The ASCD Empower18 conference will bring together teachers, principals, instructional coaches, superintendents, and other educators. Content will focus on supporting the whole child to engage and prepare students to navigate their careers, contribute to their communities, and identify their interests. The conference is organized to let participants create their own personalized professional learning experience. A wide… Read More ›
Meeting ESSA Guidelines With UDL/Personalized Learning
During this webinar, creative learning strategist and co-author of Make Learning Personal and How to Personalize Learning, Barbara Bray, will lead a live discussion on meeting ESSA requirements with UDL/personalized learning approaches. She will discuss how teachers can meet their state’s new ESSA requirements with a learner-centered approach that is built on solid UDL and personalized… Read More ›
Quality Counts 2018
Every year, Education Week releases a Quality Counts report which examines state-level efforts to improve public education and pulls together a large number of statistics to create a picture of progress in each state. To provide a more in-depth look, Education Week will now provide this data in three reports rolled out over the course of the year. The first,… Read More ›
Webinar: Increasing Opportunities for Deeper Learning
On February 15, the Learning Policy Institute will launch a new webinar series, Achieving Equity Through Deeper Learning, that focuses on why deeper learning is crucial for students in today’s innovation economy and how we can achieve greater equity in access to deeper learning. The first webinar, Increasing Opportunities for Deeper Learning, will address ways… Read More ›
The Six Secrets to More Successful Partnership Between Students and Teachers
Educators work on behalf of their students every day, but some of the richest learning opportunities arise when educators take it a step further and actually partner with students to address a local issue. Drawn from decades of experience studying and leading youth-adult partnerships, Students at the Center Distinguished Fellow Dana Mitra provides six secrets educators can… Read More ›
Fit for Purpose: Taking the Long View on Systems Change and Policy to Support Competency Education
This paper explores the issues state policy needs to address to support a transformation of K-12 education toward personalized, competency-based systems. It introduces four ‘threshold concepts’ that need to be considered for long-term success, including: certifying learning, assessment literacy, pedagogical innovations based on learning sciences, and meeting students where they are. This publication was written… Read More ›
Research Collaborative Seminar: Reducing Inequities Through Competency-Based Education
JFF’s very own Stephanie Krauss discusses her recent paper for Lumina Foundation on how competency-based education may help reduce our nation’s toughest inequities. Check out the discussion over how competency-based education is working—or not working—for our underserved learners in college. This webinar is part of a series hosted by the Student-Centered Learning Research Collaborative which works to investigate, evaluate, and curate… Read More ›
Rethinking State Accountability to Support Personalized, Competency-Based Learning in K-12 Education
This issue brief from Aurora Institute shares state policy recommendations and resources for policymakers who are ready to rethink state accountability systems to support student-centered learning. With the passage of the federal Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), states gain considerably more authority and autonomy over the design of school accountability systems. This shift in responsibility… Read More ›
Golden Ticket
This dynamic case study combines narrative, video, data visuals, and photos to tell the story of a vital component of school reform efforts in the Lawrence, MA Public Schools. The case study provides details on the creation and implementation of Acceleration Academies, week-long opportunities for personalized learning in small class settings held over February and… Read More ›
Exploring Student-Centered Learning in the ESSA State Plans
Many of us who research or implement student-centered learning approaches read with excitement that states now have the flexibility, under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), to include such approaches into their accountability requirements. With states required to submit their plans for implementation last month, we explored how many states chose to include student-centered learning… Read More ›