Let’s Get Real: Deeper Learning at Work
While policymakers often use the phrase “college and career readiness” to describe the goals of K-12 education, the truth is that most school reform initiatives focus on college readiness alone. Career readiness is often treated as an afterthought, as if it were just a side-effect of completing a college-prep curriculum and not something to be… Read More ›
An Up Close Look at Student-Centered Math Teaching
This executive summary on a new study from AIR finds that students in high-quality, student-centered classrooms are more engaged and demonstrate higher performance on problem-solving assessments. When teachers use student-centered techniques to engage students in more active and authentic ways, they can transform math classrooms into lively learning environments in which students take charge of… Read More ›
Let’s Get Real: Deeper Learning and the Power of the Workplace
In this report, Nancy Hoffman argues that in a period when very few teens have access to jobs, high school experience must incorporate gradual exposure to the workplace. Educators today assert that “college and career readiness” should be the goal for every high school student, but “career readiness” is too often an empty tagline. What… Read More ›
Research-Supported Principles for Proficiency-Based Learning
Rather than being a stand-alone specific school intervention, we believe Proficiency-Based Learning (PBL) is actually the sum of a series of well-known and research-supported practices. When combined and implemented in a thoughtful manner, PBL practices like assessing and reporting learning by standards, providing just-in-time interventions and supports, and disaggregating Habits of Work from content-specific knowledge… Read More ›
Civic Education and Deeper Learning
This report, authored by Peter Levine and Kei Kawashima-Ginsberg, proposes that the turn toward deeper learning in education reform should go hand in hand with a renewed emphasis on high-quality civics education. Not only does deeper learning have great potential to promote civic outcomes and strengthen our democracy but, at the same time, civic education… Read More ›
SXSWedu
The SXSWedu® Conference & Festival fosters innovation in learning by hosting a diverse and energetic community of stakeholders from a variety of backgrounds in education. The four-day event affords registrants open access to engaging sessions, interactive workshops, hands on learning experiences, cinematic portrayals, early stage startups and a host of networking opportunities. By providing a… Read More ›
More than College Readiness: Engaging Students in Work and Civic Life
When discussing the purposes of secondary education, policymakers often speak of a trio of aims: High schools should prepare all students for college, careers, and civic life. But, in truth, while major recent reform initiatives have focused a great deal of attention on the first of those goals—ensuring that students become “college ready”—they have done… Read More ›
Achieve Hartford! Website
This organization works to reduce the achievement gap in Hartford. They provide data on current reform progress and school performance in Hartford, commission issue-based research on relevant reform topics to inform a variety of stakeholders, and build coalitions of community partners. One of its major community projects is a push to build public support for… Read More ›
What Should School Be? A Student-centered Road Trip
This six minute video follows a group of Vermont high school students visiting a model school in Providence, Rhode Island to learn about personalized student-centered learning. The video focuses on the students’ experience organizing, attending, and debriefing from the trip. Source Organization: Partnership for Change
Supporting Student Success Through Time and Technology
This report details the current blended learning approaches at six expanded learning time schools across the country, and highlights their lessons learned. Additionally, it outlines seven design and implementation steps for practitioners interested in using technology to personalize student learning. Supporting Student Success is a guide for district leaders and school practitioners interested in implementing… Read More ›
Student-Centered Schools Study: Closing the Opportunity Gap
The Student-Centered Schools Study, funded by the Nellie Mae Foundation, looks closely at four California high schools that use either the Linked Learning or Envision Schools model to achieve positive outcomes for all their students. These schools all serve predominately low-income students and students of color. These signature models of student-centered learning can inform efforts… Read More ›
Ready for College and Career
The report finds that a range of cross-cutting skills like communication, innovation and self-regulation are crucial to student success. Student-centered approaches to learning can equip students with a range of skills necessary to succeed on the Common Core State Standards exams, in college, and in their careers. Source Organization: The Nellie Mae Education Foundation VISIT… Read More ›