Youth Leading Youth and Transforming Education
GripTape is an organization that lets go. We let go of the common notion that young people are only capable of certain things. We let go of the fear that young people may not care. Working with an organization that has so much faith in young people, such as myself, has given me so much… Read More ›
How Giving Students Feedback Through Video Instead of Text Can Foster Better Understanding
This article describes how several teachers have shifted from providing written to video feedback for students. Ongoing feedback is an important part of formative assessment. This article looks at the advantages of using video to deliver this feedback and provides links to websites and tools for teachers who would like to get started. This assessment… Read More ›
Paper Tweets Build SEL Skills
In this article, an ELA teacher shares a strategy that can be used to build positive classroom culture and SEL skills or applied as a formative assessment technique. The author shares how she used the structure of twitter to engage students in a public written conversation, creating a “paper twitter board” on her classroom wall.… Read More ›
School Counselors: An Integral Part of School Change
If students are the heart of education, then school counselors are undoubtedly the ears. Counselors listen to students and work to empower them. This means counselors are core to helping students understand their agency in life and in learning, as well as developing their social and emotional skills. As schools plan for student-centered shifts in… Read More ›
How Podcasts Can Improve Literacy
This article, written by a veteran educator, describes how podcasts can be used as a strategy to boost literacy. This teacher found that listening to podcasts and ready transcripts helped English Language Learners is his class, and that all his students benefited. Bringing podcasts and transcripts into the classroom is also an easy and low-cost… Read More ›
Levers and Logic Models: A Framework to Guide Research and Design of High-Quality K-12 Competency-Based Education Systems
On Tuesday, June 19, 2018, from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. EDT, iNACOL will host a webinar to explore details of a recent report offering a logic model for high-quality competency-based education. To advance the field with quality and fidelity, CompetencyWorks developed a logic model in a new report titled, Levers and Logic Models: A Framework… Read More ›
Youth Leading Youth and Transforming Education
This article advocates for youth agency over learning. It was written by a student from the Leadership Board of GripTape, a youth-led organization that works to build a network and share the message that all youth have the potential and capacity to learn anything they want. The article describes the work of the organization including… Read More ›
The 5th (C) of 21st Century Skills? Try Computational Thinking (Not Coding)
This article was originally posted in EdSurge on February 25, 2018. For better or worse, computing is pervasive, changing how and where people work, collaborate, communicate, shop, eat, travel, learn and quite simply, live. From the arts to sciences and politics, no field has been untouched. The last decade has also seen the rise of disciplines… Read More ›
Innovative Staffing to Personalize Learning: How New Teaching Roles and Blended Learning Help Students Succeed
This report explores the need for changes in staffing patterns and school organization in order to support personalized learning. The report highlights findings from a study, conducted by Public Impact and the Clayton Christensen Institute, of schools that use innovative staffing models and blended learning to achieve success. The authors look at the importance of adding… Read More ›
Project-Based Learning with Agile Project Management
In this live session, participants will be able to learn more about how they can use Agile Project Management to make project-based learning even more powerful for students. Agile Project Management is a strategy widely used by modern businesses across the STEAM sectors. The Agile approach places a high value on individuals, collaboration, and the ability… Read More ›
Envisioning the Graduate of the Future
This course was developed by MIT with support from the XQ Institute, to help school communities rethink what a high school graduate will need to know and be able to do. The course will explore how to design a graduate profile, the artifact that communicates these ideas. Making explicit the capabilities, knowledge, and attitudes graduates need and… Read More ›
Satellite Podcast
Sat·el·lite /sadlˌīt/ noun An artificial body placed in orbit around the earth or moon or another planet in order to collect information or for communication. ASTRONOMY. A celestial body orbiting the earth or another planet. Orbiting from on-site locations, Satellite examines innovative educational perspectives. Dr. Frank LaBanca, principal of Westside Middle School Academy and Students at… Read More ›