How Can Your School District Start a Podcast?
This podcast episode is dedicated to school districts across the world who are searching for ways to promote their teachers and students; the districts who are looking to build a brand in their community. This episode looks at a school district who has successfully created not only one, but two podcasts to share their story and… Read More ›
High School Redesign in Action
High School Redesign in Action is the New England Secondary School Consortium’s sixth annual conference for educators across the country to share success stories, exchange best practices, and continue to build momentum for innovations that will prepare all students for success in the colleges, careers, and communities of the 21st century. WHEN: Thursday + Friday, March 26–27,… Read More ›
Building Consensus and Momentum: A Policy and Political Landscape for K-12 Competency Education
This report by KnowledgeWorks’, with support from the Nellie Mae Education Foundation, addresses three policy areas to focus on in building an educational system that supports competency education. By focusing on these areas, states would be given the flexibility needed to innovate, evaluate, and build systems that positively impact student achievement. Competency education cannot be… Read More ›
Maximizing Competency Education and Blended Learning
This brief is based on a two-day conversation with twenty-three incredibly insightful people who work in competency education, personalized learning, and blended learning. There are several parts to the paper, including: an exploration of the relationship between personalized learning, competency education, and blended learning and the concerns about equity that arise in each; issues that district… Read More ›
Transformation
This three minute video discusses reshaping the classroom and system so that learning is personalized, and students have a true voice in their education. We envision an education system where learning transcends the traditional school calendar and setting. We envision a system where students progress based upon mastery of a skill or topic, rather than… Read More ›
Promising Practices from Blended Master Teachers
On Thursday, March 19, iNACOL will host a Teacher Talk Webinar featuring the classroom strategies developed by three educators featured in the Blended Master Teacher Project. Created in partnership with The Learning Accelerator and BetterLesson, the Blended Master Teacher Project presents more than 50 videos featuring the promising practices of 11 high-performing blended teachers from… Read More ›
Telling Stories Out of School: Reframing the Education Conversation Through a Core Story Approach
This toolkit is designed to help leading voices in the education sector to build support and cultivate demand for an excellent public school system by building public understanding of issues such as assessment, instruction, and systemic supports and reforms. This set of materials is intended to support communicators in explaining many of the central issues… Read More ›
Revere High School Success Story: Flipped Learning Transforms School Into a Student-centered Environment
This case study tells the story of Revere High School’s ambitious multi-year reform plan, resulting in a school-wide flipped learning approach. Early results showed increased student engagement, homework completion, and attendance rates. Prior to 2011, Revere, a diverse urban high school in Massachusetts, was struggling to meet Department of Elementary and Secondary Education performance standards.… 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 ›
The Deeper Learning Planning Guide
This tool offers practical guidance on the conditions that have to be established for schools to truly change their practices to ensure students leave school with the sophisticated content knowledge and skills needed to be critical thinkers, problem-solvers, collaborators, and communicators. The Planning Guide is designed to be a resource and tool that can be… Read More ›
The Basics of Differentiated Instruction
This presentation, presented as the 2003 Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development Summer Conference on Differentiated Instruction, Chicago Illinois, gives an overview of differentiated instruction based mainly on the work of C.A. Tomlinson. Highlights include a visual representation and lists of specific instructional strategies to support students of varied readiness, interests, and learning profiles. It… Read More ›
New Teacher Survival Guide: Differentiating Instruction
This 13-minute video features a new chemistry teacher working with an expert in differentiated instruction to modify a lesson. The goal: to meet the needs of the diverse learners in her classroom. The teacher tries several strategies, including tiered word problems and group work, and discusses her successes and challenges. To facilitate sharing and self-reflection,… Read More ›