Student-Centered Schools Study: Closing the Opportunity Gap
The Student-Centered Schools Study, funded by the Nellie Mae Foundation, looks closely at four California high schools that use either the Linked Learning or Envision Schools model to achieve positive outcomes for all their students. These schools all serve predominately low-income students and students of color. These signature models of student-centered learning can inform efforts… Read More ›
Leadership in Action: What Are Personal Learning Plans?
This issue brief from the New England Secondary School Consortium’s Leadership in Action series outlines what personal learning plans look like, and how schools are using them to help students achieve short and long term learning goals. Source Organization: New England Secondary School Consortium (NESSC) Visit the Resource
Personal Opportunity Plans
Personal Opportunity Plans (POPs) – an ongoing process designed to maximize a student’s academic and personal development – create a set of systems and structures for supporting students at every step along their path toward a satisfying and successful future. This paper aims to support the adoption of POPs in conjunction with districts’ and schools’… Read More ›
Leadership in Action: What is Profiency-Based Grading?
This issue brief from the New England Secondary School Consortium outlines what separates proficiency-based grading from traditional grading. Source Organization: New England Secondary School Consortium (NESSC) Visit the Resource
The Promise of Extended Learning Opportunities: New, Powerful, and Personalized Options for High School Students
In this article, Nellie Mae Education Foundation president Nicholas Donohue describes the potential that expanded learning opportunities can have in systematically changing a learning ecosystem. Expanded learning opportunities can serve as a “sweet spot” for school-community partnerships and collaboration. Source Organization: The Nellie Mae Education Foundation VISIT THE RESOURCE
Expanding Equity Through More and Better Learning Time
This article from VUE (Voices in Urban Education) discusses the More and Better Learning Time initiative which moves toward education equity by recognizing that though we all value extended and improved learning time, not all students have the resources to make it possible. College readiness calls for tapping the resources of the whole community — higher education,… Read More ›
Aligning Competencies with the Common Core
This video from CompetencyWorks and iNACOL is a webinar about how Boston Day and Evening Academy (BDEA), a school designed to serve over-age and undercredited students, aligned their competencies to the Common Core State Standards. The video also elucidates how BDEA has fine-tuned its practices to accelerate learning for students with a wide differentiation of skills and… Read More ›
Expanded Learning Opportunities
This video was filmed, edited, and produced by high school youth employed at The Hub in Providence. It is an introduction to Providence’s Expanded Learning Opportunities. Source Organization: The Providence After School Alliance
What is a flipped clasroom (in 60 seconds)
In this video, Julie Schell provides a 60 second definition (includes an 11 second intro. and a three (3) second conclusion) of a flipped classroom, aided by a visual from The Center for Teaching and Learning at The University of Texas at Austin, designed by Josh Walker. Source Organization: Peer Instruction Blog VISIT THE RESOURCE
Flipped Learning Letter to Parents
Revere High School offers resources for flipped learning which includes a letter that can introduce parents to the flipped classroom approach. Revere High School implemented flipped learning during the 2013-2014 school year. Through flipped learning, teachers and students work together so that students will obtain skills needed to be prepared for college and careers of the 21st… Read More ›
Leadership in Action: What are Learning Standards?
This issue brief from the New England Secondary School Consortium’s Leadership in Action series explains what “learning standards” are and how to implement them in the classroom. Source Organization: New England Secondary School Consortium (NESSC) Visit the Resource
Education for Life and Work: Developing Transferable Knowledge and Skills in the 21st Century
This report describes the important set of key skills that today’s students need to increase deeper learning, college and career readiness, student-centered learning, and higher order thinking. Source Organization: The National Academies Press Visit the Resource