Supporting Language & Content Learning in Math
Patricia Segura, a 9th-grade English teacher at Fremont High School in Oakland, CA, allows viewers to spend a day in her classroom of “newcomer students.” A “newcomer student” is one who has lived in the United States for less than a year, and typically serve students from various grade levels. Segura walks viewers through the importance of supporting student… Read More ›
Author’s Purpose: Analyzing & Adapting Texts
In this video, Sean McCombe, an AVID (Advancement via Individualized Determination) teacher, walks viewers through the process of Analyzing, Composing, and Performing literature—a method he uses in his classroom when assigning his students a paper or book to read. Source Organization: Teaching Channel
The Importance of High-School Mentors
This article stresses the importance of role models. When it comes to helping young people succeed, education experts and nonprofits are embracing the idea that a broad web of formal and informal role models is key. This video from The Atlantic documents the power that mentors can have at a defining juncture in the lives of… Read More ›
Nurturing Growth Mindsets: Six Tips From Carol Dweck
This video is from Carol Dweck’s keynote address at EdWeek’s Leaders to Learn From event in Washington. Dweck addresses her task of correcting misconceptions about her research and its applications in schools. This Education Week article synthesizes her main points and illustrates the concern that people haven’t fully understood every dimension of Carol Dweck’s growth mindset… Read More ›
Designing and Implementing a Student-Centered ELO Program (Video Tool Suite)
This Students at the Center Hub video takes a look at the complex process of implementing a successful extended learning opportunity (ELO) in a student-centered high school. Follow the students and staff at the ELO program at Highlander Charter School as they explore the logistical side of anytime/anywhere learning and discuss what it can take to get students out of the… Read More ›
What is Flipped Learning
In this short presentation, a classroom teacher introduces the flipped learning approach to fellow teachers. It includes a discussion on four pillars of an effective flipped classroom and examples of the schedule of activities in this type of classroom. The presentation focuses most on intentional content, with tips on how to help students learn the… Read More ›
District Redesign Centered around Student Learning
This 12-minute video introduces the basic ideas involved in a district-wide shift to student centered learning and explores the specific efforts undertaken in Pittsfield. It features the superintendent, principal, teachers, parents, and students. The video focuses on personalized extended learning opportunities for students, community involvement efforts, the student-led site council, and the advisory program. This video… Read More ›
Flipped Learning Toolkit: Getting Everyone on Board
This tool features a short video that provides teachers with tips to help educate students, administrators, and parents about the flipped classroom teaching approach and gain their support. It also includes a short article for parents explaining the benefits of a flipped classroom, an article for students with tips on getting the most out of… Read More ›
Digital Learning Day—Baltimore County Public Schools (Video)
This video shows digital learning in action from the Baltimore County Schools. The schools have a one-to-one initiative known as S.T.A.T. (Students & Teachers Accessing Tomorrow), which aims to provide more than 100,000 students with a personal digital learning device by 2018. The district has combined their staff, teachers, parents, faith and community partners, business leaders,… Read More ›
Incorporating 21st Century Skills in the Classroom
Students at the Center Hub Video Tool Suite explores how teachers incorporate 21st-century skills into core subject classes. What does it look like in action? How does this help prepare students for college and career, and enrich their core subject learning?
Learn About BDEA From Our Students
This video takes a look at Boston Day and Evening Academy through the eyes of its students and teachers. Boston Day and Evening Academy was designed to serve students that are over age, have previously dropped out, or have not experienced success at other schools. The school is open 12 hours a day and over… Read More ›
Our Path to Personalized Learning
This video, produced by Achieve Hartford!, on Our Piece of the Pie (O.P.P.)’s Path Academy in Windam, Connecticut gives the community an inside view of blended learning in action. Source Organization: Achieve Hartford!