Career & Technical Ed
student voice
Learning Design
A Key Component of Student Voice
By: Lindsay Lyons. Lindsay outlines two key ideas that are at the heart of students’ success: niching content and amplifying student voice. Â
Future of Learning
Early Lessons From The Real World Learning Initiative
The Real World Learning Initiative is a high school improvement project that aims to prepare students for the future of work.
Equity & Access
New Arts Integration Efforts Address Healing-Centered Engagement, Transformative Agency
There is a new merging of the arts with trauma-informed pedagogy, social justice and culturally-responsive teaching as a means to increase healing-centered engagement and transformative agency.
EdTech
South Fayette School District: Leading Educators in Computational Thinking
Rachelle Dene Poth shares resources for educators to get started with computational thinking by following the lead of South Fayette School District in Pittsburgh.
Getting Through
COVID Could Worsen Summer Melt: How Some Colleges Are Responding
By: Dennis Pierce. To ensure that as many first-year students as possible enroll in classes, colleges and universities are using campus apps, virtual orientation sessions, and other innovative methods to engage with newly admitted learners.
Place Based Education
Creating Connections Across Slate Valley for the Common Good
By: Casey O’Meara. The Slate Valley Unified Union School District applies community-focused experiential teaching and facilitation methods to better support deeper learning for its students.
Project-Based Learning
What Self-Reflection, Peer Evaluation, and Assessment Looks Like in Action in Early Elementary
By: Jenny Pieratt. The Founder and President of CraftED Curriculum tackles how to begin teaching self-reflection, peer evaluation, and assessment in early elementary.
Project-Based Learning
J-term at Lyndon Institute: Engaging in Interest- and Passion-driven Learning
During J-term at Lyndon Institute, teachers teach something they are passionate about and let the students decide what they want to learn.
Difference Making
Oaklore: A Student Podcast About Difference Making in Oakland
Students in Oakland have launched Oaklore, a student podcast focused on highlighting Oakland's changemakers and cross-generational storytelling.
EdTech
The Learning Must Go On
How even the coronavirus couldn’t stop agile Asian schools from functioning. With robust learning systems in place, it’s ‘business as usual.’