Blended Instruction: Exploring Student-Centered Pedagogical Strategies to Promote a Technology-Enhanced Learning Environment
This project provides a road map for creating a learning environment that supports instructional strategies that live at the intersection of blended instruction and student-centered learning. As part of this project, a blended instruction white paper was developed to capture what teachers do, what it looks like in the classroom, and explore important instructional strategies… Read More ›
Classroom Assessments that Informs Instruction
This paper introduces educators to the concept of assessments that informs classroom instruction. It offers representative formative assessments that elementary, middle, and high school teachers can use in their classrooms to inform their instructional practices. Specifically, the authors illustrate assessments teachers can use before, during, and after instruction that will help them understand their students’ learning… Read More ›
Mean What You Say: Defining and Integrating Personalized, Blended and Competency Education
This paper is intended to provide a scan of the literature and expand the knowledge base for the field to integrate the core ideas of personalized learning, blended learning, competency education, and standards. The goal of the paper is to explain the nuances of key terms used across the field of K-12 education related to… Read More ›
Building and Sustaining Education Reform Through Relational Power
This commentary talks about how relational power — power developed collaboratively with others — is crucial to the success of community organizing. The article also discusses how school leaders and teachers can increase relational power in their school community to help build community engagement, understanding, and capability to foster student-centered learning. Source Organization: Annenberg Institute… Read More ›
The College Pathways Tools Series
The complete tool set provides all the Beating-the-Odds study tools in one publication: a framework and rubric, a student survey, a focus group protocol for students, and a focus group protocol and parent handout for families. Together, these tools enable high schools and their partners to get a multifaceted look at how well they are preparing students… Read More ›
Students as Allies in Improving Their Schools: Student and Teacher Surveys
What Kids Can Do worked with schools in 5 cities to support student involvement in reform as part of the”Students As Allies” initiative. They helped students conduct action research, participate in meaningful dialogue, and take action in partnership with adults. The Student and Teacher surveys, which were updated in 2011, can be adapted by student/adult… Read More ›
Student Ownership through Transparency
This powerpoint presentation provides an example of how educations at Boston Day and Evening Academy are using an assessment system. The presenters shares on how Boston Day and Evening Academy sift to a competency/proficiency- based system leading to a more engaged student body. Source Organization: Boston Day and Evening Academy
The Motivation Equation: Designing Motivation into Student-Centered Learning
The Motivation Equation: Designing Lessons that Set Kids’ Minds on Fire takes that work another big step. Using a lively multimedia platform, Cushman brings the actual work of teachers, the feedback of students, and the commentary of learning scientists to describe how—and why—high motivation and academic mastery develop in the classroom. Guided by an “actual… Read More ›
The Rise of K-12 Blended Learning: Profiles of Emerging Models
This report provides an overview of emerging blended and online learning models and includes profiles of forty K-12 schools using a range of blended models or have plans to blend online learning with brick and mortar classrooms. It offers a definition of blended learning developed by the Christensen Institute (formerly Innosight Institute) and Michael Horn.… Read More ›
The Learning Edge: Supporting Student Success in a Competency-Based Learning Environment
The Learning Edge: Supporting Student Success in a Competency-Based Learning Environment delves into one of the elements of the definition of competency education: Students receive timely, differentiated support based on their individual learning needs. Understanding how to structure supports is important because learning in a competency-based environment means that students and adults are often on… Read More ›
Promoting Grit, Tenacity, and Perseverance: Critical Factors for Success in the 21st Century
This paper addresses non-cognitive skills necessary to thrive int the 21st century. According to the authors, these non-cognitive skills are essential to an individual’s capacity to strive for and succeed at long-term and higher-order goals, and to persist in the face of the array of challenges and obstacles encountered throughout schooling and life. The authors… Read More ›
Education Technology Implementation Practice Guide
This guide offers a road map for district- and school-wide education technology implementation for leadership teams. It draws on research-based implementation practices and addresses core education technology implementation issues such as: Who is (or should be) included on the leadership team and involved in the process? What are your short- and long-term goals for integrating education… Read More ›