CBE: Getting Started with Learner-Centered Practices with an Equity Lens
[…] 28 years. She started teaching in Lindsay and later became a reading specialist in both English and Spanish. She has held the roles as Learning Facilitator ( teacher), Director of Preschools, Principal and now serves as the Executive Director of Curriculum and Instruction. She shared the story of LUSD and how their vision and […]
Embedding Growth Mindset Practices: The Toolkit Version
[…] cultures; teach learners the basics of learning science so they better understand conditions, context, and thriving; and practice giving feedback in thoughtful ways. It is critical that teachers don’t under-expect what students can do, and to address the harm caused by systemic racial inequities in education. Educators need to believe that their historically underrepresented […]
The Future of Work: Assessing Skills Essential for Success
What implications does the changing nature of work (the future of work) have for K-12 and post-secondary education?
Phonological Awareness: The Number One Predictor of Reading Success
[…] can be challenging to hear individual sounds within words and individual words within sentences. Most of us have never heard of phonemes, unless one becomes a reading teacher (and even some reading teachers have never heard of them.) A phoneme is the smallest unit of sound in spoken language, whereas a letter is the […]
Northern Alberta Institute of Technology: Adapting and Improving for STEM
The Northern Alberta Institute of Technology finds a more intuitive way to teach complex STEM subjects online and drives online teaching innovation through interdisciplinary faculty collaboration.
Summer Learning Isn’t One Size Fits All
When it comes to summer learning, it’s not a one size fits all approach. Educators are using data to tailor summer learning plans for individual districts, schools, and students.
Delivering on the Promise of Digital Equity
[…] equity gaps in connectivity and device procurement. Big Play 3: Create or revise long-term edtech plans to provide equitable access and sustainable systems. Focus Area 2: Upskill the K-12 teacher and leader workforce. Big Play 4: Establish digital skill and digital use competencies for K-12 graduates and educators. Big Play 5: Design professional learning opportunities that increase educators’ […]
Can Edtech Be Used to Better Serve Daydreamers?
We want our students to be dreamers, but ensuring that they absorb the necessary information will enable and equip them to be “doers” as well.
Measuring Connections in Career-Connected Learning
Future Focused Education and Big Picture Learning are proving it’s possible to understand the social side of work-based learning. Both organizations’ commitment to equity has led them down that path.
The Ready Player One Test: Systems for Personalized Learning
[…] honor young people as the dynamic individuals that they are. New models of teaching and learning need to be designed to center on the student, not the teacher. In Dr. Benjamin Freud’s article, The Metaverse will make schools places of becoming, Chapter I asks, “Why do I need to learn from you?”. This question […]
