Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL)
Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) was founded in 1994 by Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence, educator/philanthropist Eileen Rockefeller Growald, and a group of distinguished researchers and practitioners. CASEL is a nonprofit organization that works to advance the science and evidence-based practice of social and emotional learning. Visit the Resource →
Brain Tutor 3D
BrainVoyager Brain Tutor is an award-winning educational program that teaches knowledge about the human brain the easy way. The program lets you interactively explore high-quality 3D head and brain models, which can be rotated, moved, zoomed and morphed in real-time. The head and brain models have been computed with BrainVoyager QX using data from magnetic… Read More ›
Youth Speaks
Committed to a critical, youth-centered pedagogy, Youth Speaks places young people in control of their intellectual and artistic development. Youth Speaks is urgently driven by the belief that literacy is a need, not a want, and that literacy comes in various forms. Visit the Resource →
What Kids Can Do, Inc.
What Kids Can Do (WKCD) is a national nonprofit founded in 2001 by an educator and a journalist with more than 60 years combined experience supporting adolescent learning in and out of school. Using digital, print, and broadcast media, WKCD presses before the broadest audience possible a dual message: the power of what young people… Read More ›
Search Institute
Search Institute® is an independent, nonprofit, nonsectarian organization committed to helping create healthy communities for every young person. Search Institute believes that “all kids are our kids,” and creates books and other materials that welcome and respect people of all races, ethnicities, cultures, genders, religions, economic backgrounds, sexual orientations, and abilities. The mission: To provide… Read More ›
SoundOut- Student Voice in Schools
50 ways Adults can support student voice! Visit the Resource →
Gardener Center for Youth and Communities
Mission The John W. Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities (JGC) at Stanford University partners with communities to develop leadership, conduct research and effect change to improve the lives of youth. Principles Our work is rooted in the principles of community youth development: a community only prospers when its young people prosper, and young… Read More ›
Lead the Change: Amanda Datnow
American Educational Research Association‘s Eduational Change Special Interest Group presents: Lead the Change Series: Q & A with Amanda Datnow. Amanda Datnow discusses how schools can effectively use data for school improvement. Excerpt: “Many schools and schools systems were drawn to the idea of data-driven decision making as high stakes accountability policies came to the… Read More ›
Expeditionary Learning
Expeditionary Learning schools inspire the motivation to learn, engage teachers, and students in new levels of focus and effort, and transform schools into places where students and adults become leaders of their own learning. Expeditionary Learning provides a model that challenges students – even those starting with low skill levels – with high-level tasks and… Read More ›
Big Picture Learning
Big Picture Learning’s mission is to lead vital changes in education, both in the United States and internationally, by generating and sustaining innovative, personalized schools that work in tandem with the real world of the greater community. Big Picture believes that in order to sustain successful schools where authentic and relevant learning takes place, we… Read More ›
Harlem Children’s Zone
The Harlem Children’s Zone in New York City represents a recent example of a comprehensive effort to support academic success and disrupt the cycle of poverty through wrap-around services. Serving a 100-block radius in Harlem, HCZ is a collaborative network of social services, health services, charter schools, and academic supports aimed at the entire life… Read More ›
Making a Case for Comprehensive Assessment (Exhibition)
Example of an exhibition. project-oriented evaluations that include critiques by outside experts are among the innovations at New York City’s Urban Academy. Editor’s Note: Since this video was filmed in 2001, the Urban Academy has become a member of the New York Performance Assessment Consortium, a coalition of public schools in New York State that uses… Read More ›