How to Learn? From Mistakes
In this TedTalk video, Diana Laufenberg shares three surprising things she has learned about teaching — including a key insight about learning from mistakes. Source Organization: TED
Student-Centered Learning and the Achievement Gap
The Nellie Mae Education Foundation President & CEO Nick Donohue talks about how student-centered learning can help close the achievement gap. Source Organization: The Nellie Mae Education Foundation VISIT THE RESOURCE
Flipping the Classroom Explained
This video, while promotional, gives a high-level overview of “flipping the classroom,” is well-done and accessible. The video is helpful to those who are new to flipped learning. It could be shown to parents and students to explain the model. It could also be used as an introduction for interested teachers. Source Organization: Workday
What is competency-based education?
In a competency-based system, students move ahead when they’ve mastered content, not when they’ve reached a certain birthday or endured the required hours in a classroom. Source Organization: The Nellie Mae Education Foundation VISIT THE RESOURCE
Student Voice Matters: Resources
To support organizations and districts interested in implementing student-voice policies such as constructive feedback or student involvement in teacher evaluation, Student Voice Matters has created a page of resources that includes: surveys on school climate; student-to-teacher constructive feedback form; student-to-administrator feedback form. Source Organization: Youth on Board Visit The Resource
Student Voice Matters
In 2013, Youth on Board and the Boston Student Advisory Council launched the We are the Ones in the Classroom – Ask Us! national campaign to involve students in providing feedback and evaluation to their teachers with the help of the W. K. Kellogg Foundation. This website includes project ideas and resources for increasing student… Read More ›
10 Expectations for a Student-Centered Learning Environment
This video provides 10 expectations for a student-centered learning environment. We hear often of the “high expectations” schools must have of and for their students, yet we seldom hear of the expectations students have of their schools. Students’ expectations constitute the new “rules of engagement” in the relationship that young people want with their schools.… Read More ›
Preparing for the Future: Employer Perspectives on Work Readiness Skills
The UMass Donahue Institute recently collaborated with the Massachusetts Business Alliance for Education (MBAE) on a project designed to inform educators and policy-makers about the work-readiness skills that employers expect of Massachusetts high school graduates, and to describe the skills and characteristics these corporations require for entry-level positions with potential for growth and advancement. Institute… Read More ›
Mentors that Matter
Who are the significant adults in the lives of teenagers, beyond the home and classroom? How do they reach out to youth, and why? In the first six months of 2007, youth across the nation gave their answers, as they interviewed, photographed, and publicly honored “Mentors That Matter” in four cities (Chicago, Providence, San Francisco,… Read More ›
Service Learning: Powerful Learning with Public Purpose
Day in and out, What Kids Can Do aims to spread a more capacious view of “what kids can do” when given the opportunities and supports they deserve-a vision that makes room for real-world problem solving, teamwork, character and citizenship, learning from mistakes, creativity, social justice, and contribution. Service learning, at its best, provides a… Read More ›
The Schools We Need: Creating Small High Schools That Work For Us
What’s so different about a small high school, compared to a large one? When school leaders decide to create more small schools in their district, how do students experience the change in their everyday routines, as well as in their sense of power and possibility? In this publication-a joint effort of What Kids Can Do,… Read More ›
Center for Youth Voice in Practice and Policy
This organization, the Center for Youth Voice in Policy and Practice—a virtual center—provides a fresh new platform for young people as knowledge creators and policy advocates. Using well-honed research and documentation strategies, the work digs into issues that matter to youth: good schools, college access and success, technology, discrimination, equality, negative youth stereotyping, programs and… Read More ›