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Is Your Child’s School Student-Centered? A Checklist for School Visits
Whether it’s your neighborhood, district, public, private, or charter school, parents often want to visit a school before their child attends, or after they have started a new school. Student-centered learning drives performance, enhances engagement and puts students in the driver's seat. This article features things to look for during a school visit and questions to ask school staff to learn more about student-centered learning.
Hacking Your Traditional High School Experience
By: Dan Cardinali. Don’t feel like you’re stuck with only one path through high school. Take control. Make your own opportunities. Hack your education and your future. But do those things while keeping the big picture in view.
10 Things Parents of High School Juniors Should Start Doing Now
By: Carol Barash. As part of our Smart Parents series, Carol offers 10 tips for parents of high school juniors that go beyond a practical checklist and instead invite an opportunity to connect with your child at this critical age. Recommendations include listening to your child, keeping the doors of communication open, and having fun.
Instructional Leadership through Focused Observation and Feedback
By: Sarah-Jane Caban. As part of our Preparing Leaders for Deeper Learning series, Sarah-Jane writes about Relay's Graduate School and their work to help prepare principals for Deeper Learning environments through their program, The National Principals Academy Fellowship.
EdTech 10: It’s March Madness Baby
Be it in your bracket or your inbox, knowing the most relevant and important information, in March Madness or in EdTech, is fundamental to understanding how you can advance as a learner on and off the court.
Growth Mindset Parenting
By: Eduardo Briceño. As part of our Smart Parents series, Eduardo, CEO and co-founder of Mindset Works, writes about the importance of growth mindset and how parents can encourage a growth mindset through becoming a growth mindset role model and monitoring how they talk to their students about hard work, praise, and intelligence.
Leveraging Innovative Policy Options for Students
By: Jamey Fitzpatrick. In this Smart Parents series blog, Jamey writes about the role of parents in helping their children successfully navigate online learning options, and shares resources for learning more about supporting students in online learning environments.
Student Rights & Voices Take Center Stage
By: Daniel Kao. Student rights is not just a list of things that a student should be able to do. Student rights is a mindset that empowers students to take control of their own learning, education, and lives.
Sentopiary Moves The Needle In Teaching Grammar
How teachers choose to teach grammar is still a fairly individual or schools-based choice, and must be aligned with how the core curriculum standards are being applied to each classroom. But a new generation of apps are making sure that it is easier for teachers to excite students and make learning fun.
The Transformational Leader
By: Carmen Coleman. In this blog for our Preparing Leaders for Deeper Learning series, Carmen writes about the need for education transformation, and what skills leaders need to help better meet the needs of 21st century learners.