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“Creativity Requires Freedom”: What Will It Take to Create Space Within Our Education System to Think and Design Creatively?

The Center for Reinventing Public Education (CRPE), in partnership with the Reinvention Lab powered by Teach For America, gathered a “change-maker” group of students, educators, and education leaders. It was an intimate gathering of people committed to a learner-centered, radically different future of education. The question posed to the group Read more

By coreeducation, 5 yearsFebruary 8, 2022 ago

School Reform & Leadership

Design Principles for Schools

Design Principles for Schools: Putting the Science of Learning and Development Into Action is a new playbook created by the Learning Policy Institute (LPI) and Turnaround for Children in partnership with the Forum for Youth Investment and in association with the Science of Learning and Development (SoLD) Alliance and more Read more

By coreeducation, 5 yearsJanuary 13, 2022 ago

School Reform & Leadership

Academic Mindsets and Behaviors, Prior Achievement, and the Transition to Middle School

The transition to middle school is an important time in students’ academic journey, and poor performance in middle school is a strong signal of future negative academic outcomes. This is true particularly for Black and Latinx students. To better understand how academic mindsets and behaviors are associated with and may Read more

By coreeducation, 5 yearsNovember 17, 2021 ago

Teacher Effectiveness & Retention

Inaugural PISA Data on Students’ Growth Mindset and Teaching Practices

Writing for the Fordham Institute, Jeff Murray recently reviewed the results of a new Growth Mindset survey administered for the first time with the 2018 PISA assessment. Excerpts of the piece appear below: For the 2018 administration of the test, PISA included a “growth mindset” instrument. Students who have this Read more

By coreeducation, 5 yearsJune 1, 2021 ago

Teacher Effectiveness & Retention

Time to Help Teachers Be Advocates for Students, Not Their Judge and Jury

A recent article by Michael Horn of the Christensen Institute reviews the problem with teachers being both evaluators and facilitators of student learning. Excerpts from the piece appear below: In her bestselling book “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success,” Stanford professor Carol Dweck wrote, “When teachers are judging [students], [they] Read more

By coreeducation, 7 yearsJanuary 22, 2020 ago

Professional Learning Teacher Effectiveness & Retention

How Learning Happens Video Series

How can schools better align their practices with what science says about human learning? A new video series of 20+ videos from Edutopia, featuring Linda Darling-Hammond, president and CEO of Learning Policy Institute, and Pamela Cantor, MD, founder and senior science advisor of Turnaround for Children, pairs research insights with Read more

By coreeducation, 8 yearsJanuary 29, 2019 ago

Diversity & Equity USCEE

Getting Real About Equity

The National Network of State Teachers of the Year (NNSTOY) has released a new video series called Courageous Conversations about Race in School. Educators care deeply about all students getting the education they deserve, but they often find themselves stuck in the same unsatisfying conversations about race where people speak Read more

By coreeducation, 9 yearsFebruary 20, 2018 ago

School Reform & Leadership USCEE

New Evidence that Students’ Beliefs about their Brains Drive Learning

Responding to the need to look beyond test scores to measure school quality, an increasing number of school districts are striving to incorporate socio-emotional learning measures in their accountability policies. Growth mindset – believing that intelligence and talent can change – is one of these measures. Experimental research has found Read more

By coreeducation, 9 yearsJanuary 19, 2018 ago

Assessment

Early Results in California’s CORE Districts

As states and districts work to develop new accountability systems under the Every Student Succeeds Act, six California districts who received federal waivers under the Obama administration are getting the first hints of how more holistic accountability systems might work. Researchers and district officials discussed the first evaluations of the Read more

By coreeducation, 9 yearsMay 19, 2017 ago

Professional Learning

Mindset in the Classroom: A National Study of K-12 Teachers

The Education Week Research Center has released an original study examining teachers’ perspectives on growth mindset. The national survey of K-12 educators, conducted with support from the Raikes Foundation, also explores their views about professional development, training, and the use of practices related to growth mindset in the classroom. Growth Read more

By coreeducation, 10 yearsNovember 9, 2016 ago

School Reform & Leadership USCEE

Promoting Grit, Tenacity and Perseverance

The Office of Educational Technology at the U.S. Department of Education recently released a report called Expanding Evidence Approaches for Learning in a Digital World. The OET was most interested in “the role of new types of data and analytic capabilities in supporting grit, tenacity, and perseverance.” Here is more Read more

By coreeducation, 14 yearsMarch 19, 2013 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.