Giving a voice to teacher-leaders, administrators, and students doing amazing things
This month’s newsletter features Sam Nelson, a middle school teacher in Vermont who has been prototyping with his students to co-create social studies curriculum. This video narrated by Sam describes how he created a design and student community that shaped Read More …
This post was originally published on Design Thinking, Co-Creating, and everything in between. One teacher’s adventure in CHANGE and is reprinted with permission. I remember the day last spring when I successfully co-created a “How Might We” statement with my Read More …
We define personalized learning as: a progressively student-driven model in which students deeply engage in meaningful, authentic, and rigorous challenges to demonstrate desired outcomes. Progressively student driven model hearkens back to the timeless pedagogy of gradual release of responsibility from teacher Read More …
This post first appeared on ASCD Inservice. The language of the culture very much reflects the feelings, behaviors, and actions that the culture values. We often live by the metaphors that we use. So, for example, when we use negative metaphor such Read More …
By George Yeager and Sarah Evans George Yeager is currently a third grade teacher at Palm Beach Day Academy in West Palm Beach, Florida. He is a National Board Certified Teacher with a Bachelors Degree in Elementary Education and a Read More …
The element that stood out to me most powerfully from my review of the first chapter of Students at the Center was the concept of student as co-creators in personalized learning. To have a student walk beside you and shape Read More …
By George Yeager and Sarah Evans George Yeager is currently a third grade teacher at Palm Beach Day Academy in West Palm Beach, Florida. He is a National Board Certified Teacher with a Bachelors Degree in Elementary Education and a Read More …
And so we begin… August 11, 2017, the first day that the ninth graders came to experience Vista High School 2.0, we witnessed the beginning of our evolution from a large traditional high school experience to an experience in which Read More …
As part of Friday’s Students at the Center: Personalized Learning with Habits of Mind official release, co-authors Bena Kallick and Allison Zmuda participated in a Webinar hosted by ASCD. “We have received great feedback from friends and colleagues who have Read More …
By Bena Kallick and Allison Zmuda How can we encourage student reflection and growth in each of the four attributes? We have found that it is helpful to pay attention to key Habits of Mind associated with voice, co-creation, social Read More …