Yale Education Leadership Conference: Defining Success–Understanding Our Aspirations for Students
The theme for the 2016 Education Leadership Conference is “Defining Success: Understanding Our Aspirations for Students.” For the last decade, the Yale School of Management Education Leadership Conference (ELC) has gathered teachers, parents, community members, school leaders, and politicians who have dedicated their lives and careers to students. While all of these leaders strive to… Read More ›
National Equity Project
This organization strives to improve the educational experiences and outcomes for students who have historically been underserved, by helping educators, administrators, and community leaders build the culture, conditions, and competencies needed to increase equity and excellence across schools and districts. Founded in 1995, the organization has partnered with schools, districts, and community organizations in 10 states.… Read More ›
The Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop
This organization, the Joan Ganz Cooney Center, an independent research lab, addresses the challenges of educating children in the face of the changing media landscape. The center’s mission is to conduct original research on emerging education technologies and collaborate with educators and media producers to put this research into action. Program initiatives fall into 3… Read More ›
Our Path to Personalized Learning
This video, produced by Achieve Hartford!, on Our Piece of the Pie (O.P.P.)’s Path Academy in Windam, Connecticut gives the community an inside view of blended learning in action. Source Organization: Achieve Hartford!
Students at the Center: TEDx Talk
This film, from Nellie Mae Education Foundation’s CEO Nick Donahue speech at TEDx Beacon Street, questions why our education system designed as if it’s 1915? Rather than a top-down, one-size-fits-all approach to education, schools need student-centered strategies to help learners reach their highest potential. Source Organization: Nellie Mae Education Foundation
Reflections on Student-Centered Learning Part 2—Educator Perspective
The International Association for K-12 Online Learning (iNACOL) hosted their annual Symposium in Orlando, FL in early November. Though I attended several thought-provoking and engaging sessions at the conference, those sessions that featured voices of the students and educators doing the hard and rewarding work to personalize learning stood out to me. I was struck… Read More ›
The Connected Classroom: Understanding the Landscape of Technology for Student-Centered Learning
This report, published by the Nellie Mae Foundation and Parthenon-EY, assesses the education technology landscape and pinpoints the needs of education practitioners pursuing student-centered learning practices. Across the country, educators and leaders have adopted, adapted, created and implemented a broad range of technology supports to help deepen student-centered learning opportunities. Source Organization: Nellie Mae Education… Read More ›
Deeper Teaching
In this paper, Magdalene Lampert provides a close, detailed description of “deeper teaching,” referring to the kinds of instructional strategies and moment-by-moment teaching decisions that enable students to learn deeply. She concludes by describing the kinds of early-career guidance and support that teachers will need in order to understand what deeper teaching entails and put… Read More ›
Robotics, Coding, & Student-Centered Learning: A Student’s Perspective
Computer Science Education Week begins next week (December 7-13). Tens of millions of students will participate in the Hour of Code, a campaign to introduce young people to coding and to stress the importance of computer science skills in the 21st century. Less than 2.4 percent of students graduate college with a computer science degree,… Read More ›
#plearnchat on Personalized Learning (12/7)
Nadya Bech-Conger, from Burlington High School, will be leading the 12/7 #plearnchat from 7p-8p EST. The chat will focus on balancing structure with choice in a personalized learning environment.
Practical Learning Research for the Math Classroom
Join the Future of Education for a webinar on Thursday, December 3, from 7:00 – 8:00 pm US-EST, looking at the latest research in learning science and why it matters to math teachers. How can we take the research about teaching and learning and translate it into practice? What are: “framing,” the “growth mindset,” the “testing… Read More ›
The challenge of “thinking outside of the box” while existing inside the box
In education as in other sectors, there exists this buzz phrase – “thinking outside the box.” While so commonly used, Highlander and its Fuse Architect partner schools have experienced that this phrase may not be as simple a concept as it sounds. From the start of the Fuse Architect program, Highlander and NMEF have… Read More ›