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Implementing Restorative Justice: A Guide for Schools

This guide was created by the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority for schools in the state of Illinois. It was designed to help school staff understand restorative practices, reduce the need for involvement of the juvenile justice system in school discipline, and create and maintain positive school-wide communities. The guide provides an excellent overview of… Read More ›

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Teaching Restorative Practices with Classroom Circles

This guide was produced by the San Francisco Unified School District’s Student, Family, and Community Department, which works to achieve the district goals of Access and Equity, Student Achievement, and Accountability. This accessible guide provides an excellent overview of the restorative practice of classroom circles. It lays out in detail how to implement a variety… Read More ›

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American Association of School Librarians Standards for the 21st-Century Learner

The American Association of School Librarians’ (AASL) learning standards offer a vision for teaching and learning to guide the school library profession as education leaders. These learning standards can shape the library program and serve as a tool for school librarians to shape the learning of students in their schools. The web page includes links… Read More ›

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Educators’ Social and Emotional Skills Vital to Learning

This article focuses on teachers’ own social and emotional learning. It asserts the importance of social and emotional skills within the teaching profession and the needed and difficult cultural shift to more openly address this type of skill development within a school. The article describes promising interventions to support teachers’ social and emotional skills and… Read More ›

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Social and Emotional Learning in Schools From Programs to Strategies

This report explores a more integrated approach to teaching social and emotional skills in schools. While well-implemented SEL programs have shown positive results, this issue of Social Policy Report proposes that schools should consider a new approach: integrating the teaching and reinforcement of SEL skills in their daily interactions and practices with students. It explains… Read More ›

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Why is Student Voice Important in Education? (Video)

This short video produced by the Nellie Mae Education Foundation discusses the importance of including student voice in all aspects of the education they are consuming. In this dynamic video students, teachers, and administrators share their views on making education more personal, relevant, and engaging. For the general public this video is an excellent promotion for… Read More ›

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Putting Students in Charge of Their Own Learning

This post can be originally found on the Education Writers Association website, as part of their Educated Reporter series led by Emily Richmond. Imagine you’re a student: You walk into school and check an electronic board for your name and where you go for the day. At the assigned station, you and a small group of fellow students… Read More ›

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Community Engagement and Student-Centered Learning

This video, which is a part of the Community Engagement series by Nellie Mae Education Foundation, discusses the many reasons why community engagement is so vital to successful student-centered learning. Source Organization: Nellie Mae Education Foundation

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Goodbye, Linear Factory Model of Schooling: Why Learning is Irregular

This article explores three key points to consider as the country is challenged to meet the needs of Generation Z. Dwight Carter, New Albany High School principal at New Albany Plain Local Schools in Ohio, explains that the rate of change during the Information Age has increased exponentially due to the rapid creation of new… Read More ›

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Digital Portfolios Position Students for Success in the Workforce

This op-ed, by Heather Hiles founder of Pathbrite, an e-portfolio platform, and someone who has spent her entire professional life committed to helping students optimize their academic outcomes and obtain meaningful employment, explains why digital portfolios are so beneficial to students who are embarking on a job search. According to a study from CareerBuilder, 81 percent… Read More ›

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Connecting Learning to Careers

In this article, Hamutal Bernstein, research associate at the Urban Institute, explores the many ways that Connected Learning is a personalized approach to learning that is beneficial to students in today’s classrooms. Young people are living their lives in densely connected, media-saturated contexts, connecting to peers through social media. Connected Learning aims to harness this… Read More ›

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Looking Under the Hood of Competency-Based Education

American Institutes for Research (AIR) recently released Looking Under the Hood of Competency-Based Education: The Relationship Between Competency-Based Education Practices and Students’ Learning Skills, Behaviors and Dispositions. This is one of the first valuable studies we have had looking at the impact of competency-based education. The Framework of Learning Skills, Behaviors, and Disposition AIR created… Read More ›

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