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Learner-Centered
What Is Student Well-Being, and How Do We Create the Conditions to Support It in Our Schools?
[…] Teachers can offer opportunities for ungraded assignments, revision and redemption, and self-assessments. Try letting your students decide which assignments to grade or giving quizzes to check for learning without recording points. There are a whole host of ways to reduce student stress when it comes to grades and assessments, and even small shifts can […]
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EdTech
A Transformative School Year with AI
[…] understand where we see it in the world and how to teach about it in our schools. I was also fascinated by the capabilities of AI for learning and in the world. I reached out to several educators and some students to find out what they thought about the changes we are experiencing in […]
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New Pathways
Two Developments in Middle Grade Career Exploration
[…] the tools they need to navigate the complexities of the modern world — in school, at work, and in life, ProjectSet, an online platform for virtual work-based learning opportunities that help kids and university students to develop workplace skills and become career ready, Bloom Learning/Ender, which is on a mission to make kids employable […]
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Learner-Centered
Avoiding Accidental Harm: Fostering Positive Impact on Students’ Lives
[…] and may even cause intentional harm. But I believe they are few, and that most cases of harm are in fact unintentional. In The Landscape Model of Learning (2022), my coauthor Kapono Ciotti and I share stories of such harm: Astronaut Mae Jemison being told by a kindergarten teacher that she should become a […]
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Future of Learning
Microschools Meet The Moment
[…] the Moment grant program to new microschool opportunities. VELA “will fund efforts that yield something new or transform existing models, so long as they provide responsive and authentic learning experiences for young people.” “Parents, educators, and entrepreneurs are reinventing when, where, and how learning happens,” said Marc Sternberg, K-12 Education Program director at the Walton […]
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Equity & Access
Educating All Learners Alliance Launches Flagship Site, Shares Personas Educators Can Use to Understand Students’ Lived Experience During COVID-19
Although some teachers got a glimpse into their students’ home lives during video sessions this spring, many schools with little or no synchronous learning didn’t have a way to check in with students in real-time. As a result of school closures, teachers may not know how their students fared during the pandemic: whether they […]
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Future of Learning
New Possibilities: The Role of Research in 4.0’s New Normal Fellowship
[…] and measure their own success. Evaluation in Our New Normal Fellowship The COVID-19 crisis has caused a range of economic and cultural changes, from joblessness to distance learning, that are placing additional strain and anxiety on our most struggling students and families. At 4.0, in the face of uncertainty, we tend toward optimism and […]
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Future of Learning
How To Unblock Curiosity And Build Creativity
[…] might be the most important disposition of the new age. It guides the explorations of youth, it powers invention and creation, and fuels chapters of life long learning. Cultivated through habits of inquiry, curiosity is easily dampened by stress—physical or physiological and blocked by a lack of permission—real or perceived. In an age where […]
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Future of Learning
4 Tiers Of Showcasing Student Work
[…] of taking student work public: Showcases and Exhibitions These are events designed to share student work publicly. They are opportunities for students to defend and explain their learning in a professional, reflective, and celebratory environment. Ideally, these should be school-wide or even district-wide. However, it’s perfectly acceptable to organize smaller or more intimate events […]
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Future of Learning
Champion the Class of 2021: A Timely Impact Opportunity
[…] of 2021 have been through a lot. Stripped of most that is fun and engaging about their senior year, many of them suffered through hastily prepared virtual learning and spotty video classes. They lost access to friends, extracurricular activities, work, and service-learning opportunities. Thousands disengaged and gave up on school, no longer on track […]
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