Successful Play-Based Learning in Virtual Environments
Of all things instructional that may be challenging to facilitate in the distance environment, play-based learning may be one of the most. But don’t tell that to Teacher Aidan Bybee who has been making quite an impression with her virtually-facilitated play-based instruction and activities. Bybee, along with her team at iLEAD Agua Dulce (a […]
Summer Learning: 10 Professional Learning Experiences for Educators
Rachelle Dene Poth shares seven summer professional learning opportunities for educators.
Climate at the Apex of Education Re-Design
[…] even more macro level, as far back as 2004 the state of California introduced Environmental Principles and Concepts (EP&Cs). Not only implemented in the classroom through standards-based instruction, since 2016 environmental literacy is by law in all California adopted textbooks and instructional materials. According to the California Education and Environment Initiative, the intent is […]
Scaling Active Learning: Professional Development Was Key to the El Paso Transformation
By: Shannon Buerk. In the fourth blog in a series on El Paso Independent School District, Shannon describes the important role that professional learning played in the district's transformation.
3 Ways Leaders Can Create The Conditions for Deeper Learning
Project-based learning is becoming the way many educators and educational leaders are beginning to view the future of instructional pedagogy. When teachers, leaders, schools and districts become more project-based focused, they often tend to aim their attention at targets such as professional learning, scheduling, cohorts, collaborative teams, courses, technology and graduate profiles. These are […]
Active Learning: The Secret to El Paso’s Success
[…] shifting the district of 86 schools from a preoccupation with test prep toward a focus on the whole child, engaging project-based learning, and effective dual language literacy instruction. “The risk was TEKS alignment concerns, but we are doing fine with testing,” added Cabrera. “More kids have an engaging pedagogical environment without the drill and […]
Schools Need a Success Coach for Every Learner
[…] that “None of us is free until we are all free.” Ali has worked as a middle school teacher, university instructor, DE&I consultant, director of curriculum and instruction across more than 30 schools, and director of learning transformation at an international education design lab. Bb Ntsaky serves as the Director of Academics at Brooklyn […]
Always Ready For Learning: Meeting the Rapidly Evolving Needs of Educators Throughout COVID-19
[…] organizations in a large-scale, free coaching network to offer school districts rapid, customized, and sustained guidance on how to successfully shift to remote learning and prepare for instruction in the fall and beyond. This pro-bono, philanthropically-supported initiative works to ensure K-12 school district leaders get urgent and customized guidance to help wherever they are […]
Introducing the Texas Learning Exchange School Operations Guide
[…] opportunities for students, the guide then turns attention to the academic shifts necessary to give students an optimal chance to learn no matter where or how this instructional exchange is occurring. The focus is the learner, not the school, not the teacher, not the curriculum. In the guide, we cover topics such as remote […]
A Question of Trust: The Arcadia Unified Better Together Project
By: Arcadia Unified School District. AUSD shares how a partnership with Altitude Learning and the University of California San Diego began to rigorously examine key levers for transformational change.