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Designing for Deeper Learning: Challenges in Schools and School Districts Serving Communities Disadvantaged by the Educational System

Designing for and implementing deeper learning across classrooms and schools that serve communities disadvantaged by the U.S. educational system is challenging. A new paper from the Carnegie Foundation illuminates this challenge by asking the question: What would designers of interventions at the classroom, school, and district levels have to take Read more

By coreeducation, 4 yearsSeptember 22, 2022 ago

School Reform & Leadership

New Study Suggests that College Graduates Have 11 Key Skills Gaps

New research by the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) finds 11 key skills gaps among college graduates. These skills include the following: Understand Role in the Workplace and Have Realistic Career Expectations Recognize and Deal Constructively with Conflict Accept and Apply Critique and Direction in the Workplace Listen Read more

By coreeducation, 6 yearsJuly 8, 2020 ago

Recent Research: Taking Student-Centered Learning and Equity to Scale

Can teaching and learning practices that foster deeper learning among all students-not just the most advantaged-be successfully replicated across large numbers of schools? The answer is an unqualified “yes,” according to the Learning Policy Institute’s recently released study, Deeper Learning Networks: Taking Student-Centered Learning and Equity to Scale. The study Read more

By coreeducation, 7 yearsDecember 12, 2019 ago

School Reform & Leadership USCEE

How to Innovate: Options for School Districts

School district leaders know that standardized tests are a narrow view of learning outcomes. Many want to embrace a broader view of career and citizenship readiness, and want to engage young people in active learning to promote these important outcomes-but these changes come with a variety of challenges. Typical Read more

By coreeducation, 7 yearsMay 2, 2019 ago

School Reform & Leadership Teacher Preparation USCEE

Preparing All Learners for an Uncertain Future of Work

Recently in Getting Smart, Katherine Prince of Knowledgeworks discussed a new foundation for readiness for work in the 21st century. Excerpts of the piece appear below: From today’s vantage point, we can identify two critical drivers of change shaping the future of readiness for further learning, work and life: the Read more

By coreeducation, 8 yearsMarch 20, 2019 ago

School Reform & Leadership USCEE

Designing an Education System for the Tails, Not the Mean

As part of CRPE’s 25th anniversary collection, Thinking Forward: New Ideas for a New Era of Public Education, Robin Lake and Travis Pillow explore how a system built to meet the needs of “square peg” students could benefit all students. They write: A growing effort to personalize learning moves in Read more

By coreeducation, 8 yearsJanuary 24, 2019 ago

School Reform & Leadership USCEE

In the Driver’s Seat: GripTape Learning Report

In 2015, an organization called GripTape began a new experiment to see what would happen if young people were put in the driver’s seat of their own learning. GripTape’s most recent learning report details the results of this bold experiment, among which are the following outcomes: Youth experience a powerful Read more

By coreeducation, 8 yearsJanuary 16, 2019 ago

School Reform & Leadership USCEE

The Year of Thinking Forward

In the Center for Public Education’s blog, The Lens, Robin Lake lays out 10 bold new ideas to push the education field toward the future. How can a shift in mindset from a portfolio of schools to a portfolio of learning opportunities help realize every student’s potential and prepare them Read more

By coreeducation, 8 yearsJanuary 15, 2019 ago

School Reform & Leadership USCEE

Mind the Gap: Will All Students Benefit From 21st Century Learning?

In an economy driven by technological innovation and a complex social landscape, schools must invest in instructional approaches that allow students to express more agency over their learning and create space to apply what they learn to solve real-world problems. Based on a two-year study of personalized learning in 39 Read more

By coreeducation, 8 yearsNovember 15, 2018 ago

Teacher Effectiveness & Retention

Learn Next: A Toolbox for Educators to Transform Practice

Every student deserves access to powerful learning experiences – experiences that help them develop agency, grow their skills and expand their curiosities. Many schools are shifting their practices to be more student-centered in hopes of ultimately developing these qualities in students. We know in transformative environments that the learning and Read more

By coreeducation, 8 yearsOctober 31, 2018 ago

School Reform & Leadership

How Creative Youth Development (CYD) Programs Support Student Success

Education Commission of the States recently released a new report exploring the design and impact of Creative Youth Development (CYD) programs and providing policy considerations regarding CYD for states looking for ways to narrow the achievement gap and support student success. In CYD programs, young people create original work through Read more

By coreeducation, 8 yearsSeptember 19, 2018 ago

School Reform & Leadership USCEE

Introducing a Framework for High Quality Project Based Learning

A growing number of educators around the world believe that project based learning (PBL) is an important instructional approach that enables students to master academic skills and content knowledge, develop skills necessary for future success, and build the personal agency needed to tackle life’s and the world’s challenges. Projects are Read more

By coreeducation, 8 yearsMay 22, 2018 ago

Professional Learning USCEE

Educators Reach Consensus on What It Takes to Integrate Social, Emotional, and Academic Development

The Aspen Institute National Commission on Social, Emotional, and Academic Development has released a report from leading educators describing the practices and principles that can make a new vision of learning part of the fabric of schools and classrooms across the nation. The Practice Base for How We Learn outlines Read more

By coreeducation, 9 yearsMarch 26, 2018 ago

School Reform & Leadership USCEE

Evidence for Student-Centered Learning

For the past 35 years, the prevailing narrative about America’s public education system is that it is “broken.” Reform efforts have failed to find a fix because they fundamentally misunderstand this reality: the system is not broken. It is doing exactly what it was designed to do-educate the masses in Read more

By coreeducation, 9 yearsMarch 6, 2018 ago

Assessment

The Promise of Performance Assessments

As states, districts, and schools are expanding instruction to include the competencies associated with college, career, and civic readiness, they are also developing ways to measure mastery of these deeper learning and higher-order thinking skills. These measures include performance assessments, such as portfolios, capstone projects, and senior defenses, alongside classroom Read more

By coreeducation, 9 yearsFebruary 5, 2018 ago

School Reform & Leadership USCEE

Education Evolving Is Evolving

After an extensive organizational review, literature review and stakeholder listening sessions, Education Evolving has released its newly refined vision for student-centered learning. It involves the following seven principles: Positive Relationships – Students have relationships with adults and peers who care about, believe in, and hold them to high expectations Whole Read more

By coreeducation, 9 yearsOctober 23, 2017 ago

Kim Fleming has experience working at the school, district, state, and university levels. She earned her PhD in Teacher Education and Professional Development from the University of Maryland and her Masters in Teacher Leadership from Johns Hopkins University. She has worked with 24 school districts and 28 institutions of higher education as professional development schools facilitator and alternative teacher preparation program specialist. In addition, she has worked with four state education agencies, several school districts, and many nonprofit and for profit organizations as a consultant. Fleming is an accomplished grant writer and presenter. She has published numerous publications and book chapters.