Charting the Course for the Next Phase of K-12 Competency-Based Education
This webinar will discuss the recent iNACOL report on competency education, Quality and Equity by Design: Charting the Course for the Next Phase of K-12 Competency-Based Education. The report examines four key issues in the field which must be considered to continue to scale up competency education efforts with quality and sustain them over time:… Read More ›
How Can We Abolish the Phrase “I’m Just Not a Math Person”?
This blog was originally posted on June 13, 2017 in Education Week’s Learning Deeply Blog Four teachers gather around a laptop to watch videos of their students working in groups to solve math problems. Using a protocol to guide their discussion, they pause the videos at opportune moments and practice providing strategic feedback. Their goal:… 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 ›
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 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 ›
Learner-Centered Culture Includes Educators, Too
Ask an adult who is not an educator to describe a classroom, and you might still hear something like this: “A teacher is standing in front and lecturing to students seated neatly in rows. Everyone is on the same page of the textbook and doing the same exercises because there’s a quiz tomorrow and everyone… Read More ›
Behavior Management Tools Might Not Be Best for Student-Centered Learning
This blog is the first in a series on the practical side of cultivating student ownership of learning, produced by JFF’s Student-Centered Learning Research Collaborative. High-quality learning is often messy. It can be noisy and nonlinear and full of surprises. That may be why many of us seek to control it. We establish rules, plans,… Read More ›
Pioneering the New Way of Learning: Learner Agency and Opportunity
This article introduces a framework that explores learner agency and student motivation. The article is written by two students 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 framework discusses the factors… Read More ›
Tools for Looking Under the Hood of Competency-Based Education
This webinar will highlight the forthcoming Competency-based Education (CBE) 360 Survey Toolkit, a resource that uses surveys from a recent AIR CBE study to provide a comprehensive picture of CBE implementation in six research-based core areas. States, districts, and schools that want to realize competency-based education’s (CBE) college and career readiness potential must ensure that core CBE features are… Read More ›
Digital Promise Research Map
This database managed by Digital Promise brings together thousands of research articles on key education practices. The database is searchable and organized to allow the user to see relationships between topics and subtopics. The database includes student-centered learning topics such as: Student motivation, Cognition and learning Online learning The website features an “Ask A Researcher” section… Read More ›
To Engage Students and Teachers, Treat Core Subjects Like Extracurriculars
This article shares varied examples from schools across the country that have implemented a project-based learning model in which core classes mimic extracurricular projects and activities. Researchers Jal Mehta and Sarah Fine have been observing school systems over six years to try to understand what promotes deeper learning. They found that in many school environments students were… Read More ›