It’s About Time: Lessons from Expanded Learning Time in Meriden, Conn.
This handbook was created for unions and districts who are interested in, or working towards, putting an expanded learning model into place in traditional community schools. It’s About Time provides lessons learned from Meriden, Connecticut, following the planning, design, implementation, and plans for scale of this model, detailing the collaborative efforts of the Meriden Public Schools and the… Read More ›
CBHS Principal Named 2014 Lawrence O’Toole Award Recipient
This article provides information on the 2014 Larry O’Toole Award winner. Casco Bay High School Principal Derek Pierce was awarded the Nellie Mae Education Foundation’s 3rd Annual Larry O’Toole Award. The award and monetary prize is given annually to a New England school, district, or organization dedicated to student-centered learning. Casco Bay High School is… Read More ›
Sanford Strong Coalition
The Sanford Strong Coalition-a network of residents, organizations, businesses and others invested in the future of Sanford-provides for the exchange of information and the leveraging of resources in an effort to identify community needs and create solutions that strengthen the health, well being, and success of Sanford’s children, youth and their families. Resources include: Strategies… Read More ›
Parent Leadership Training Institute
The Parent Leadership Training Institute (PLTI) helps parents become leading advocates for children. It is designed by the American Leadership Forum, Leadership Greater Hartford, and the Connecticut Commission on Children. It is used as a part of the “stronger Sanford” strategies. The website includes: goals, a description of the course, and resources that include the… Read More ›
Parent Leadership Training Institute Curriculum Overview
This curriculum overview describes classes, rationale, structure, and values of the leadership training. A great resource for those communities interested in creating their own training for parents. Source Organization: Connecticut Commission on Children VISIT THE RESOURCE
“I Used to Think”
This video from the Sanford Public School features Sanford teachers discussing their process of continuously learning to adjust their classroom practices in order to provide student-centered, proficiency-based learning experiences for and with their students. Source Organization: Sanford School Department
“Meeting Standards in a Student-Centered, Proficiency-based Classroom”
This video from the Sanford Public Schools, “Meeting Standards in a Student-Centered, Proficiency-Based Classroom” features students speaking about their experiences in a proficiency-based classroom. Source Organization: Sanford School Department
Curriculum & Instruction – Sanford Public School
The Sanford Public School provides public details about their curriculum and instructional approach with resources for parents, students, and staff. Source Organization: Sanford School Department Visit the Resource
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 ›
Leadership in Action: What Are Personal Learning Plans?
This issue brief from the New England Secondary School Consortium’s Leadership in Action series outlines what personal learning plans look like, and how schools are using them to help students achieve short and long term learning goals. Source Organization: New England Secondary School Consortium (NESSC) Visit the Resource
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 ›
Personal Opportunity Plans
Personal Opportunity Plans (POPs) – an ongoing process designed to maximize a student’s academic and personal development – create a set of systems and structures for supporting students at every step along their path toward a satisfying and successful future. This paper aims to support the adoption of POPs in conjunction with districts’ and schools’… Read More ›