Place Based Education
1210 Results
Getting Through
3 Key Questions About Reading Assessment After a Year of Growing Gaps
[…] Think about the small groups and independent centers that are typical in a class. Typically, teachers can multi-task and lead small group reading sessions while monitoring students working in centers. All of that is hard to do online, even with breakout sessions or small-group video conferencing sessions. Students were also unable to hold books, […]
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Project-Based Learning
Flipping the Script: A Case Study in Student Agency and Youth Entrepreneurship
[…] shapes and impacts how women’s bodies, especially women of color, are viewed and judged. Along with her art pieces, Ese also created a digital brand and marketplace for her work. To me education is not as powerful if it doesn’t impact who you are as a human being, if it doesn’t give us the opportunity to […]
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Future of Learning
Complexity: Fall 2021 Edition
[…] by machine learning. It’s getting harder to know what content to trust. Machine learning is rapidly automating anything that can be reduced to a rule set. The good news (as this decade plays out) is fewer jobs full of drudgery. The bad news is fewer jobs that don’t require a high level of skill for […]
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Green Schools
How Sustainable is Your District? Use the GreenPrint from Green Schools National Network
[…] to sustainability measures, and students graduate without having the faintest idea of the impending dangers and opportunities of a world on fire. The Green Schools National Net work has been working against these oversights for years, trying to bridge the gap between the climate unaware and actionable steps. To continue their efforts and leadership they […]
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SEL & Mindset
The Benefits of Play-Based Learning For All Ages
[…] connections to career success and the concepts around play. “Helping kids play more will equip them to be relevant to the workplace and to society,” said John Goodwin, CEO of the Lego Foundation and the former CFO for The Lego Group. According to the CEOs of the Fortune 500 companies, collaboration and teamwork are […]
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SEL & Mindset
Embedding Growth Mindset Practices: The Toolkit Version
[…] will learn and gather insights into how students feel about themselves and how they learned or didn’t learn on a particular day. The Brain and How Learning Works Strategies and Considerations to Grow Practice: This can include a phased approach to teaching the science, but the most important part is explicitly teaching that the […]
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Future of Learning
How Design Thinking Transforms Communities, One Project at a Time
[…] a later stage. Using the ‘25 ideas in 10 minutes’ challenge, Maggie got some teams to create over 100 ideas around developing flood and earthquake-proof housing. Other good frameworks for ideation include the ‘Yes, and’ strategy, where one team develops a series of solutions and then passes the sheet to another group to affirm […]
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Leadership
Youth Corps SC: An Afterschool Program Creating Equity for All
[…] our own if we are introverted or feel insecure about ourselves, especially with someone who is different from us. But put students in a real-life experience, challenge, work project, or activity, and now they are working side by side and they are on one team. The other person is no longer just someone who […]
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New Pathways
Student Voice and Co-Leadership: What They Mean to Students
[…] the pandemic I was as eager as ever to jump right back into what I love, so I decided to create an internship opportunity for myself to work alongside the Crosstown High Instructional Leadership Team in the development of school-wide project-based and competency-based learning goals. Throughout the course of the summer, I participated in […]
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Career & Technical Ed
Five Benefits of a Global Virtual Internship
[…] address challenges that we still might not even be able to imagine today. Here are the top five benefits of joining a virtual internship: 1. Gain real-life, work experience with an international organization. 2. Broaden your global perspective and ability to collaborate with international teams and professionals. 3. Develop key 21st-century skills necessary to […]
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