Partnership for Change
This website, established in 2012, brings together local nonprofit and education organizations, government, and businesses within the school districts of Burlington and Winooski, Vermont to improve student-centered education. They are working in partnership to implement five levers of change: strengthening youth engagement and leadership, reshaping teaching and learning, personalized and proficiency based learning, family and… Read More ›
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 ›
Sanford Vision: Learning For Life – Logic Model
Sanford Public Schools district website includes a logic model which aligns with the Students at the Center framework. Source Organization: Sanford School Department VISIT THE RESOURCE
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 ›
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 ›
Necessary for Success: Building Mastery of World-Class Skills
This issue brief describes competency-based systems and reforms in districts and schools from Maine to Florida, and makes suggestions for education leaders around changing policy, fostering progressive public discourse, and supporting teachers. Source Organization: CompetencyWorks VISIT THE RESOURCE
Aligning Competencies with the Common Core
This video from CompetencyWorks and iNACOL is a webinar about how Boston Day and Evening Academy (BDEA), a school designed to serve over-age and undercredited students, aligned their competencies to the Common Core State Standards. The video also elucidates how BDEA has fine-tuned its practices to accelerate learning for students with a wide differentiation of skills and… Read More ›
Walk in our Shoes
The Providence Student Union invited local politicians and public leaders to make the 2.96 mile walk to school necessitated by poor bus pass legislation. Source Organization: Providence Student Union VISIT THE RESOURCE
“More than a Test Score” Campaign
The Providence Student Union challenged local community leaders to take an abbreviated version of the NECAP test (a graduation requirement). The adult test-takers’ results mirrored the results in Providence high schools; almost 60% received “substantially below proficient” and would be at risk of not receiving a diploma. Source Organization: Providence Student Union Visit the Resource
Student Bill of Rights
In Summer 2012, Providence Student Union (PSU) student leaders assembled a “Student Bill of Rights” that would guide the Union’s expansion into multiple schools. The Student Bill of Rights outlines Providence Student Union’s mid- to long-term priorities, and acts as a reference point when choosing school-based and citywide campaigns. Leaders argue that these rights must… Read More ›
Overarching Media Coverage of Education Issues: A Cognitive Media Analysis
This report from the FrameWorks Institute’s Core Story of Education Project is a part of a series that analyzes media discourse regarding learning, education, and education reform and how these discourses impact public understanding of an issue. The report examines how topics related to learning and education are regularly treated in the media, and explores… Read More ›