Honoring A Legacy of Leaders: The Jeanes Fellowship
[…] decolonized curriculum. This became the unifying thread that tied each of her roles together. She began to notice that students were not participating in spaces that encouraged good civic behavior: discourse, tolerance and advocacy. “Student councils are a great practice ground for some of the core mechanisms of civics, but they’re not diverse, and […]
Where Does Work to Imagine a Learner-Centered Ecosystem Begin?
[…] conducted by The History Co:Lab and Education Reimagined, commissioned by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, examines this question. The culmination of months of field work, this report outlines what an ecosystem development process might look like in different communities and what’s needed to make the ecosystem successful. The report established and […]
Inspiring Change with Improvement Science: The Carnegie Foundation Summit 2022
[…] educational pre-conference course to the thought-provoking sessions to the inspiring keynotes, the event struck an impressive balance. While there were too many takeaways and too much great work to fully capture in a single blog post, the ideas below have stuck with me and I believe they bear sharing. "It's time to hit reset […]
Do You Know Who Your Students Know? Better Data on Students’ Networks Can Start the School Year off Right
[…] conferences, and the like as teachers set out to get to know their students and to help students get to know one another. But before schools set to work on building new relationships, they should also pay attention to the relationships their students do and don’t already have. New data suggests that this year, the […]
Beyond Bans: Schools’ Role in a Hard Reset on the ‘Phone-Based Childhood’
[…] His recommendations are directed at society as a whole. But they belie an inconvenient truth that education systems must face head-on: schools are inextricably linked to the good, bad, and ugly of what’s happening in the consumer market. Schools may not be responsible for the dumpster fire that phones and social media have ignited, […]
A Student’s Perspective on Career and Interview Readiness
[…] well and fit the culture of that company. They loved the concept, and dug deeper into my FTW! digital resume I linked to my traditional resume. A good 15 minutes of our interview was focused on the FTW! platform and digital resume, and we had such a great conversation around it. They then asked […]
Where Seldom is Heard a Discouraging Word: Farm-based Microschools
[…] More Than a Farm. Her multifaceted experience includes years as a STEM teacher at the innovative Hawken School (alma mater for me and my kids), where she worked closely with education luminaries like Scott Looney (of MTC fame); permaculture design and implementation; and leading the nascent local Transition movement. Also in Northeast Ohio, Hershey […]
Real World Learning in Chicagoland Pathways
[…] extend pathway learning. Central High An hour west of O-Hare, Central High School brings college and career readiness to life for 1,300 learners in a rural community. Working with counselors and SchoolLinks, 8th grade students self-assess their interests. In 9th and 10th grade they explore college and career options and in 11th grade, they […]
How to Design a School for Belonging
[…] they belong. According to one 2022 review, students become more confident, motivated, and engaged overall. That means they’ll speak up more confidently in class, ask more questions, work better with their classmates, and perform better academically. Ultimately, if you can model a place of belonging for children as they’re growing up, they’re more likely […]
Transforming the Landscape of Education
[…] common experience of passivity, deference, and expired educational models where education is not only “done” to an individual but something that is finite. “Education is a ‘bundled good,’” professes Jules Coleman; a scholar, author, and retired senior vice provost for academic planning at N.Y.U. The pandemic helped shine a light on this fact. The […]
