Blended Learning Universe

Developed by the Clayton Christensen Institute, a nonprofit think tank working to improve education, healthcare, and global prosperity through innovation, this website showcases blended learning resources. It features basics on blended learning and related instructional models, including videos and examples in action, tips and resources to take a school step-by-step through planning and research publications.… Read More ›

From Disruption Comes Change: Nurturing Sociopolitical Action with Youth

Hosted by Dr. Alfredo Palacios from the College of Education at Auburn University, the Theory of Change podcast is for counselors and counselor educators who are looking for inspiration and resources pertaining to the profession of counseling.   In this episode of the podcast, Dr. Carlos Hipolito-Delgado, an associate professor of counseling at the University of Colorado Denver, and a Student-Centered Learning Research Collaborative grantee, discusses his research on sociopolitical… Read More ›

4 Common Barriers to Accessible Content for all Students

Whenever educators are delivering new content online is is important that all students, including those with disabilities, can access the materials. While most learning management systems (LMS) and software programs provide some accessibility compliance checking, they sometimes make mistakes or miss important considerations. This article offers clear, specific advice teachers can use to review the… Read More ›

How Will Schools Provide Special Education During the Coronavirus Crisis?

This article looks at the challenge districts are facing to provide special education services and equitable access to learning during school closures due to COVID-19. It dives into the dilemma administrators across the nation are facing trying to interpret and adhere to federal policies and discusses how different districts have responded. While it cannot provide… Read More ›

How the #DisruptTexts Movement Can Help English Teachers Be More Inclusive

This article features advice from the founders of the #DisruptTexts Twitter chats and website who are working to help other English Language Arts teachers create equitable and inclusive curriculum. Through weekly twitter posts and a moderated online discussion, they encourage teachers to reflect and consider the message their choice of texts sends to students about whose voices and… Read More ›

4 Strategies to Make Grading Tolerable

In this article, a teacher offers advice on how to share responsibility for providing feedback with students. He shares his journey of moving away from providing grades to focusing on formative feedback. The section that discusses how he teaches students to assess their own writing is particularly useful for writing teachers. Source Organization: Eschoolnews Visit… Read More ›

Teacher Resources While Social Distancing

Empowering student-centered learning in new ways Never have my two worlds collided in such a big way. I have worked in education research for the last 20 years and spent the last several curating the Students at the Center resource database part-time. The rest of my hours are spent raising two delightful AND infuriating elementary-age… Read More ›

Teaching Students to Give Peer Feedback

A high school English teacher shares how he teaches peer feedback skills in this article. To help teach students this important skill, he defines quality feedback, provides structured routines and models how to provide feedback. This scaffolded approach could be used by teachers of any subject who want to bring peer feedback to their classroom.… Read More ›

The Novice to Expert Shift

This article presents useful take-aways from a small scale study of students participating in a student-driven, problem-based science curriculum. Researchers found the prompts and support instructors used to guide students through the curriculum and activities, sometimes called thinking scaffolds, were critical to the growth of deeper level thinking skills. Any teacher launching a problem-based project… Read More ›

Making SEL Culturally Competent

This article provides strategies for educators to ensure social-emotional learning (SEL) practices are enacted in ways that are culturally responsive and equitable for youth. In particular, it introduces the concept of critical consciousness, which refers to youths’ ability to recognize and resist oppressive forces shaping their lives and communities. Any educator of any grade-level can… Read More ›