18 Digital Tools and Strategies That Support Students’ Reading and Writing
In this article, the Instructional Technology Specialist from Littleton, CO offers a wealth of education technology resources related to literacy development. In a presentation at the 2016 International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) conference she presented an array of digital reading and writing tools teachers and students in her district find helpful. In her district… Read More ›
The State Innovator’s Toolkit: A Guide to Successfully Managing Innovation under ESSA
This guide addresses opportunities under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) to drive school improvement, challenging states to rethink older, more traditional approaches and support real innovation. It reviews several principals that can help state leaders support districts’ and schools’ change efforts. It also outlines in detail 6 approaches to spark innovation which states might consider. This… Read More ›
MIT Teaching Systems Lab Dine and Play
The Teaching Systems Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) investigates how to prepare teachers for the complex technology-driven classrooms of the future. At the Dine and Play event teachers, student teachers, and education professionals can test out new interactive tools for teachers. Participants will have an opportunity to play game designed by the… Read More ›
Civics Needs a Makeover NOW. How? Keep It Student-Centered, Stupid!
Originally posted on EdWeek’s Learning Deeply Blog on October 11, 2017. Our current political climate and all it portends about our democracy has alerted many Americans to a striking fact: civic education needs a makeover. Currently, only 23 percent of high school seniors are proficient in civics, according to the National Assessment of Education Progress, and just… Read More ›
Power Poetry
Power Poetry is a website that features poetry written by youth and provides teachers with resources to support students’ writing. The site includes thousands of student poems divided by topics. Resources for teachers include a platform to build safe online classroom groups, a free two hour online course on teaching poetry, lesson plans and classroom… Read More ›
Education Elements Personalized Learning Resources for School Leaders
Education Elements is an organization that works with schools to support adoption of personalized learning and competency-based education. The following white papers can help school leaders tackle implementation, with a focus on digital integration. The Core Four of Personalized Learning: The Elements You Need to Succeed describes each of these elements of successful personalized learning: integrated digital content,… Read More ›
Twitter Chat on the Brain in Education #BrainEdchat
Join Hal Roberts, author, speaker and consultant at Hal Roberts Consulting to discuss the book Brain Rules by John Medina, a developmental molecular biologist who has a lifelong fascination with how the mind reacts to and organizes information. Join the twitter chat #BrainEdchat on Thursday, October 19th at 7:00pm Central Time to discuss how the brain works… Read More ›
How Tech Can Help Students with Disabilities Thrive in STEM Education
This article highlights advice from educators on the best ways to support students with disabilities through technology. It focuses on the power of technology to adapt and personalize experiences in STEM fields to provide all students access to the same topics, skills, and experiences in science, math, and technology. Educators can apply the advice from… Read More ›
How to Engage with School Partners? Tips for Researchers from One Project in Maine
As education researchers, how do we remain responsive to the needs of our partners while maintaining our role as independent observers? In July 2016, with funding from the Student Centered-Learning Research Collaborative, EDC began a two-year research project looking into student-centered learning with 10 partner school districts in rural Maine. In addition to what we… Read More ›
Reading Apprenticeship
This website includes an overview of the Reading Apprenticeship approach to literacy instruction, information on the research base, and details about the professional development services offered, which include teacher institutes, coaching, and online courses. Through this approach to literacy instruction, teachers apprentice students into the ways of reading, writing, thinking, talking, and reasoning in their particular discipline. Students are… Read More ›
Whole Child, Whole Person Summit: Redefining Achievement, Education, and Well-Being
This event sponsored by ASCD and Boston College’s Lynch School of Education will focus on redefining education to address the whole child and, ultimately, the whole person. The organizers believe that through a more humanistic, whole child approach to education students can become knowledgeable, emotionally and physically healthy, civically inspired, engaged in the arts, prepared… Read More ›
Gateway to Opportunity: Extending Learning into the Summer and into the Workplace
As the school year kicks into gear, it is often a time for reflecting back on summer. I can’t tell you how frequently I bump into students who tell me they were bored and up to “nothing really” over their breaks. With the work that I do, it is hard for this response to not… Read More ›