Tacoma Adding More Personalized Learning Opportunities
Rebecca Midles shares how Tacoma Public Schools has taken a collaborative approach to developing its choice schools, working with teachers, parents, and community members to create schools that reflect the needs and interests of the local community.
What Is Student Well-Being, and How Do We Create the Conditions to Support It in Our Schools?
Informed by data collected from Challenge Success partner schools and other research in the field, Sarah Miles and Denise Pope share best practices to support student well-being in school settings.
Home Schools Grow With New Funding Streams
[…] is subsidizing private school tuition for students previously enrolled in private schools. The ESA program director estimated that 40% of students in ESAs this year came from public schools. Most switched to existing private schools. A few joined (or were part of forming) home-based schools like those featured above. Put simply, a growing number […]
School Vaccine Hub Publishes Curricular Resources for Teachers to Help Students Learn About COVID-19 Vaccine Efficacy
[…] the Director of Brooklyn Elementary Instruction for the Prep and Excellence networks of Uncommon Schools. Max originally joined Uncommon Schools as the Founding Head of School at Leadership Prep Bedford Stuyvesant. Les Lynn is the founder and director of Argument-Centered Education. Since 2013, Argument-Centered Education has been helping districts, networks, administrators, and teachers become […]
Trends Shaping Education in 2022
[…] preparation and staffing in Arizona schools for the last four years. In dozens of districts across the country, Opportunity Culture has been promoting team-based staffing leveraging the multi-classroom leadership of great teachers.  The rapid shift to remote learning during the pandemic pushed school districts to adopt common learning platforms and versions of team staffing […]
Preparing to Reopen: Six Principles That Put Equity at the Core
[…] and pressure-test proposed ones. Brooklyn LABÂ is releasing early mock-ups of the facility safeguarding plans, to solicit feedback from students, families, and teachers. Define success and continuously reflect:Â Leadership teams can create a set of questions/criteria to return to on a regular basis to ensure they continue to hold these inclusive values at the core, […]
Creating Promising Career Pathways for Minority High School Students by Partnering with the Business Community
[…] I began my doctoral journey at Northeastern University, I decided to focus my research on this issue because traveling the back roads of South Carolina. I witnessed public schools that face enormous challenges with diminishing resources, increasing academic expectations, and growing proportions of students living in poverty, trauma, and even homelessness. I was also […]
Do You Know Who Your Students Know? Better Data on Students’ Networks Can Start the School Year off Right
[…] authentic social capital-building often comes from connecting “real stakes and purposeful action” to building networks. “There’s a definitive connection between youth voice and putting young people in leadership positions and developing their social capital,” said Lightfoot. 3. Repeat mapping to bolster reflection and track progress Relationships are a renewable resource. As students goals, needs, […]
Student Leadership: The Ultimate Course for Career and Life Readiness
[…] fortunate to teach several media electives and enjoyed them immensely. In what turned out to be the middle of my career, I was challenged with teaching a Leadership class. The intersection between me, my students, the school, and the community was a perfect storm. Although it’s been more than 15 years since I taught […]
Arguing for Agency: One Student-led Classroom Debate at a Time
By: Les Lynn and Eric Tucker Understanding the ins and outs of the COVID-19 pandemic can be difficult—information changes almost daily, and public health guidelines shift, too. For schools grappling with these changes, it can be confusing. But it’s also a powerful learning opportunity for students: a chance to foster critical thinking skills and […]
