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 ›
Weaving Skills Ropes: Using Metaphor to Enhance Understanding of Skills and Learning
This report from the FrameWorks Institute’s Core Story of Education project presents “Weaving Skill Ropes” as an explanatory metaphor to help explain the concepts of skills and learning–specifically, what skills students need to succeed in a 21st century economy, how these skills are learned, and how cognitive and emotional learning skills are related. Source Organization:… Read More ›
Expanding Equity Through More and Better Learning Time
This article from VUE (Voices in Urban Education) discusses the More and Better Learning Time initiative which moves toward education equity by recognizing that though we all value extended and improved learning time, not all students have the resources to make it possible. College readiness calls for tapping the resources of the whole community — higher education,… Read More ›
How Media Portray Learning Space and Time
This report from the FrameWorks Institute’s Core Story on Education Project analyzes and identifies media frames regarding learning space and time. Key features of the media’s coverage of learning space and time include: Innovation in learning space and time is a private sector enterprise Global competition is the reason to reform learning space and time… Read More ›
Getting Down to Dollars and Cents: What Do School Districts Spend to Deliver Student-Centered Learning?
This report provides a critical foundation for the delivery of student-centered learning by exploring three questions: How is student-centered learning delivered? What resources are needed to implement student-centered learning? How does district spending on student-centered learning compare with spending on traditional schools? Findings show that the implementation of student-centered approaches can be tailored and affordable… Read More ›
Making Mastery Work
Making Mastery Work: A Close-Up View of Competency Education focuses on the experiences of New England schools that are ahead of the curve in implementing rigorous, competency-based models of education. At these schools, learning happens at different times in a variety of settings, and progress is demonstrated by mastery of content, not merely grade promotion.… Read More ›
Cognitive Media Analysis of Skills and Learning
This report from the FrameWorks Institute’s Core Story on Education Project analyzes and identifies media frames regarding skills and learning. The report finds that skills and knowledge are narrowly framed in mainstream news outlets. Media coverage typically presents skills acquisition in individual economic or financial terms, focuses primarily on cognitive skills, and neglects the importance… Read More ›
Mapping the Gaps on Assessment
This report from the Frameworks Institute’s Core Story of Education Project outlines comparative results from a series of parallel interviews with experts and members of the public. The results show major gaps between how these two populations understand and think about student assessment. Source Organization: FrameWorks Institute VISIT THE RESOURCE
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 ›
Education for Life and Work: Developing Transferable Knowledge and Skills in the 21st Century
This report describes the important set of key skills that today’s students need to increase deeper learning, college and career readiness, student-centered learning, and higher order thinking. Source Organization: The National Academies Press Visit the Resource
Steps toward Valuing Education
This interactive, multimedia report summarizes the results of a quantitative experiment on the effects of values, or specific reframing tools, on the issues of skills and learning, learning time, and assessment. Source Organization: FrameWorks Institute VISIT THE RESOURCE
Mapping the Gap on Skills and Learning
This report from the FrameWorks Institute’s Core Story of Education Project outlines comparative results from a series of parallel interviews with experts and members of the public. The results show major gaps between how these two populations understand and think about students’ skills and learning. Source Organization: FrameWorks Institute VISIT THE RESOURCE