Resource Type: Article

Can Students Click Their Way to a Better World?

In this article, Chris Berdik, science journalist and author, explores why technology could be the key to better civics education for young people today. He argues the national trend of low levels of civics proficiency is the result of an outdated approach to teaching civics. Instead, teachers should use technology to engage students. The article… Read More ›

Election 2016: Lesson Plans and Digital Resources for Educators

As the campaign for President of the United States enters the homestretch, the Students at the Center Hub team is sharing an Edutopia blog post that provides educators with several resources for teaching and learning about election and civic topics.  Check out Civic Learning and Deeper Learning for an overview of how civic education exemplifies… Read More ›

Try: A Little Word Becomes a Big Gift

In this article, a school administrator discusses a simple strategy to encourage personal and professional growth. Recent research indicates the importance of a growth mindset. The author encourages fellow educators to get practical with this research by asking themselves when they last tried something new and took a risk. She describes her experience taking on… Read More ›

Constant Learning and Creative Response: Charting the Course in Personalized Learning

In this article, guest bloggers Janice Vargo and Mike Wolking from Education Elements discuss the ways their organization is helping districts measure success in implementing personalized learning. Education Elements, which provides consultation services to districts, has shifted its approach to evaluating progress to better mimic the personalized mindset they help schools enact and to embrace… Read More ›

How Teacher-Created Free Online Resources Are Changing the Classroom

In this blog post, Katrina Schwartz, a San Francisco-based journalist, explores why some teachers are putting down the textbooks and instead opting for teacher-created online resources to create personalized learning experiences in their classrooms. She reports on the work of two schools in California who have been creating teacher-designed curriculum using online open educational resources… Read More ›

How to Help Principals Do a Better Job? Train Their Bosses

This article discusses the changing role and new demands on principals. Districts nationwide are trying to figure out how to better support principals on the job and improve their effectiveness. It also describes the work in Oakland, where consultants are training superintendents and other district administrators at the top to do a better job of… Read More ›

Career And Technical Education: Boom Or Bust?

This article discusses the history of Career and Technical Education (CTE) and the current debates around it through an interview with  Anthony Carnevale, Director of the Center on Education and the Workforce at Georgetown University. The interview explores the history of vocational and CTE in high schools as well as changes in the current economy and the… Read More ›

Will Eliminating the “F” Eliminate Bad School Design?

In this article, Julia Freeland Fisher, Director of education research at the Clayton Christensen Institute discusses the possible effects of eliminating the “F” from grading systems, and what that means for competency-based learning strategies. She notes that while the dreaded “F” is going out of vogue in schools, educators must consider whether students in turn… Read More ›

Five Time-Saving Strategies for the Flipped Classroom

In this article, education professor and owner of FLIP It Consulting, Barbi Honeycutt, addresses a major concern of many educators trying to create a flipped classroom. Teachers can easily feel overwhelmed by the time requirements needed to switch to this instructional model. The author suggests adapting the idea of creating margins, “the gap between rest… Read More ›

Notes from the Field: Personalized Learning

This blog series was originally posted on August 31, 2016 by The Center for Reinventing Public Education (CRPE). Students at the Center Hub staff pulled blog quotes. In 2015, CRPE kicked off a multi-year, multi-method study of district and regional systemic efforts to support schools implementing personalized learning. Personalized learning (PL) is designed to tailor… Read More ›

Rhode Island’s Young Voices for Education Reform

My passion for a good quality education started in middle school. I went to the Gordon School, a small private school in East Providence, Rhode Island, that really focused on putting students in the center of the classroom. As a quiet and timid student, my middle school teachers pushed me to raise my hand in… Read More ›