Self-Regulation Professional Development Module
This professional development module was created as part of a partnership between Students at the Center, a Jobs for the Future initiative, and the Connecticut Association of Public School Superintendents. Six Connecticut high school teachers worked closely with researcher and lead author of “Prioritizing Motivation and Engagement” in Anytime, Anywhere: Student-Centered Learning for Schools and Teachers,… Read More ›
An Introduction to Competency-Based Education
Friday, April 3rd, 10:00am – 11:00am ET On Friday, April 3, iNACOL will host a Special Webinar featuring Susan Patrick, President and CEO of iNACOL, and Sandra Dop of the Iowa Department of Education. The concept is simple: learning is best measured by students demonstrating mastery, rather than how much time is spent in a… Read More ›
Building Community around UDL: From Theory to Practice
Announcing: CAST’s 1st Annual UDL Symposium! August 10 – 12, 2015 Join educators, administrators, and researchers from K-12 and higher education to work with leading UDL experts to explore the latest in brain research, teaching practices, and curriculum design. Become an active member of the growing UDL community: Hear about and discuss new research that supports the… Read More ›
High School Redesign in Action
High School Redesign in Action is the New England Secondary School Consortium’s sixth annual conference for educators across the country to share success stories, exchange best practices, and continue to build momentum for innovations that will prepare all students for success in the colleges, careers, and communities of the 21st century. WHEN: Thursday + Friday, March 26–27,… Read More ›
Maximizing Competency Education and Blended Learning
This brief is based on a two-day conversation with twenty-three incredibly insightful people who work in competency education, personalized learning, and blended learning. There are several parts to the paper, including: an exploration of the relationship between personalized learning, competency education, and blended learning and the concerns about equity that arise in each; issues that district… Read More ›
Promising Practices from Blended Master Teachers
On Thursday, March 19, iNACOL will host a Teacher Talk Webinar featuring the classroom strategies developed by three educators featured in the Blended Master Teacher Project. Created in partnership with The Learning Accelerator and BetterLesson, the Blended Master Teacher Project presents more than 50 videos featuring the promising practices of 11 high-performing blended teachers from… Read More ›
#edchatme Twitter chat on Student Voice in Education
The Nellie Mae Education Foundation will be hosting a Twitter chat on Thursday and we hope you can attend! Join #EdChatMe (Ed Chat Maine) this Thursday, March 12th from 8 pm – 9 pm EST to talk about student voice in education. You can join the chat simply by following and using the hashtag #EdChatMe.… Read More ›
Revere High School Success Story: Flipped Learning Transforms School Into a Student-centered Environment
This case study tells the story of Revere High School’s ambitious multi-year reform plan, resulting in a school-wide flipped learning approach. Early results showed increased student engagement, homework completion, and attendance rates. Prior to 2011, Revere, a diverse urban high school in Massachusetts, was struggling to meet Department of Elementary and Secondary Education performance standards.… Read More ›
Let’s Get Real: Deeper Learning at Work
While policymakers often use the phrase “college and career readiness” to describe the goals of K-12 education, the truth is that most school reform initiatives focus on college readiness alone. Career readiness is often treated as an afterthought, as if it were just a side-effect of completing a college-prep curriculum and not something to be… Read More ›
Determining Proficiency Levels and Establishing Scoring Criteria
Once educators in districts have completed the important task of identifying graduation standards and performance indicators, the next step in our Proficiency-Based Simplified model is to establish scoring criteria. Informing and supporting the clear articulation of what student work looks like at each of the four distinct performance levels on each performance indicator is a… Read More ›
SXSWedu
The SXSWedu® Conference & Festival fosters innovation in learning by hosting a diverse and energetic community of stakeholders from a variety of backgrounds in education. The four-day event affords registrants open access to engaging sessions, interactive workshops, hands on learning experiences, cinematic portrayals, early stage startups and a host of networking opportunities. By providing a… Read More ›
More than College Readiness: Engaging Students in Work and Civic Life
When discussing the purposes of secondary education, policymakers often speak of a trio of aims: High schools should prepare all students for college, careers, and civic life. But, in truth, while major recent reform initiatives have focused a great deal of attention on the first of those goals—ensuring that students become “college ready”—they have done… Read More ›