SEL & Mindset
Social Emotional Learning (SEL) is the deliberate commitment to including a framework of essential skills and dispositions that complement academics but historically have not been a part of curricular design. Learners acquire and effectively apply the skills necessary for self-regulation or managing and talking about emotions, forming relationships, setting goals and demonstrating empathy during their learning.
SEL & Mindset
Teaching Students How to Work Together
The group work structure and opportunities to practice collaboration may prove to be invaluable for students to learn how to work effectively with others so that they can succeed in the future workforce.
SEL & Mindset
How Did You Fail Advisory?
When my oldest son failed advisory, it resurfaced and fueled questions and reflections about advisory that continue to be daily drivers in a quest to transform learner experiences. Here are the answers I've come up with so far.
SEL & Mindset
5 Fresh Ways to Have Your Next “Shower Thought” Revelation
We all know the feeling. That feeling when you know there’s a solution to the challenge you’re facing, and it’s just beyond the tip of your tongue, and it’s been there for days, or maybe even weeks. What you’re looking for is a “shower thought” revelation.
Project-Based Learning
BASIS: Inside the Acclaimed School Network Blending the World’s Best Education Practices
By: Kate Stringer. The BASIS network is moving toward creating what the network hopes will be a more empathetic student population ready to tackle global issues. Learn more about their approach here.
SEL & Mindset
It’s a New Year. Welcome Back!
It’s official: it’s 2018. After a long year, and a short holiday break to send it off, we’re nonetheless excited to begin another year of working to improve access to high-quality learning experiences for students everywhere.
Network Effect
Integrated Learning Propels Pittsburgh Students
Post 5 of our #RemakeLearning series explores how a group of schools with shared ideals, practices and tools are changing life trajectories for youth and inspiring a culture of possibility.
Schools Worth Visiting
Using Design Thinking to Disrupt for Good
One Stone is an innovative high school in the heart of Boise with a mission of “making students better leaders and the world a better place.” Learn more about how they incorporate innovation and disruption into their curriculum here.
Project-Based Learning
Transforming the Way Students See Themselves
By: Mari Jones. When students have the chance to do work that matters, and to present that work to people who matter to them, it makes students believe that they matter.
Ed Policy
SEL Interventions Under ESSA, According to RAND Corporation
Social-emotional skills will be in high demand in the coming decades. In this post, we summarize a valuable new report from RAND Corporation on SEL interventions whose outcomes meet evidence requirements put forth under ESSA.
EdTech
A Place for the Humanities in the Digital Age
The rift between technical and humanistic fields today is closing, and K-12 teachers and students will find online a host of digital humanities resources in three primary areas: human geography, historical archives, and text analysis.