Learner-Centered
Place-Based Education: Communities as Learning Environments
By: Nate McClennen. The place-based education approach can serve as a framework to connect learning models, increase the power of our educational system and serve as the foundation for a thriving democracy.
5 Ways to Encourage Inquiry-Based Learning
By: Kristine Scharaldi. Here are five strategies for teachers that encourage inquiry-based learning and provide ways for all students to be actively involved in the classroom.
Faça Você Mesmo: A Global Perspective on Learning
By: VinÃcius Miranda and Lisa Duty. A GenDIY member and his friend share global perspectives on next-gen alternatives to learning and higher education.
Most Likely to Succeed Concludes a 50 State Tour
Executive Producer Ted Dintersmith is concluding his 50 State Tour for the film Most Likely to Succeed with stops in West Virginia, Tennessee and Kentucky.
Putting the “Learner” in Learner-Centered STEM
Students and teachers from Harmony Public Schools describe the learner experience in a Learner-Centered STEM classroom.
Two Strategies for Empowering Teacher Leaders
In a coherent system, everything works together for students and teachers: content, learning experiences, assessment, professional development, schedule, structure, staffing and supports. Here are two ways to create this coherence and empower teacher leaders.
Radical Student Choice: Student Designed and Demonstrated Projects
Takeaways and lessons learned from Adventure Days -- two full days when no middle school classes are held and each student pursues a project of their own design to showcase at the end of the second day.
How Project-Based Learning Fosters Community Change
When we bring real world issues to the classroom and allow students to lead real work, through powerful project-based learning, students can have a big impact. How does project-based learning foster community change? What started with a dialogue around slavery and reading the texts of Frederick Douglass resulted in students doing something about modern day slavery in their own community.
Meeting the 10 Expectations Students Have of School
By: Chris Jackson. Have we considered the expectations students have of school? Chris Jackson writes that the real paradigm shift may be in asking the question to students: What do you expect from school? We can take students' expectations and interests into classrooms--and outside of them. By doing so, we will increase student motivation.
10 Simple Lesson Plans for Scaffolding Student-Led Projects
From tips on assessment to how best to involve adult mentors, this is a guide for anyone who wants to lead student-led and student-centered projects in the classroom. The curriculum, adopted from Youth Engaged in Leadership & Learning, is broken down into 10 simple lessons-- to scaffolding student-led projects and create engagement and student ownership of learning.