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For Student-Centered Learning to Work, Schools Must Rethink How to Assess Learning and Award Credit

Thomas Arnett, writing for the Christensen Institute, recently reflected on the necessity of mastery-based grading to facilitate personalized learning. Excerpts of the piece appear below: Student-centered learning offers enormous potential to better meet each students’ individual learning needs. By varying the time, place, path, and pace of learning, student-centered learning Read more

By coreeducation, 6 yearsMay 14, 2020 ago

NC3T – Preparing Our Students for the Real World: The Education Shift Our Children and Future Demand

The National Center for College and Career Transitions (NC3T) has released a new position paper, arguing for Career Connected Learning as a strategy for engaging students and preparing them to thrive in the adult world. Written by Hans Meeder and Brett Pawlowski, this piece provides education decision-makers and stakeholders with Read more

By coreeducation, 7 yearsApril 17, 2020 ago

Politics & Policy School Reform & Leadership

To Usher In an ‘Age of Agility’ in Education, We Must Talk Less About Schools – and More About Students

Writing for The 74, Beth Hawkins recently reviewed innovations that shake up the high school to college pipeline emerging from the symposium celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Center on Reinventing Public Education. Excerpts of the piece appear below: The symposium explored ways in which the traditional concept of school Read more

By coreeducation, 7 yearsMarch 31, 2020 ago

Diversity & Equity

Equity Maps App Tracks Student Discussions for Better Understanding of Dialogue Skills

Writing for The 74, author Tim Newcomb reviews a new iPad app that tracks student discussions to facilitate student growth of dialogue skills, including conversation flow and inclusion. Excerpts of the piece appear below: Educators can think of the iPad app Equity Maps as a digital ball of yarn, one Read more

By coreeducation, 7 yearsFebruary 26, 2020 ago

Professional Learning Teacher Effectiveness & Retention

The Power of The Science of Learning in Action

What happens when teachers start using science of learning principles? A new, rigorous study suggests some very powerful outcomes for students. A group of researchers have been exploring the question of what happens when teachers get professional development based on the science of learning. Their latest research article explores the Read more

By coreeducation, 7 yearsJanuary 29, 2020 ago

School Reform & Leadership USCEE

Griptape Releases Learner Agency Framework

GripTape asserts that learner agency—defined as the ability to make intentional choices about and take an active role in the course of one’s own learning—is the key to a self-reinforcing cycle of learning and development. After two years spent working directly with more than 400 young people nationwide designing and Read more

By coreeducation, 7 yearsJanuary 14, 2020 ago

School Reform & Leadership USCEE

How Schools Can Cultivate Courage in the Face of Fear

Recently in Getting Smart, Tyler Thigpen wrote a piece on fear in the classroom, offering educators some insight into the debilitating anxiety that some students experience. Excerpts from the piece appear below: What if by understanding where fears stem from, educators could design the learning environment for optimal courage? Courage Read more

By coreeducation, 7 yearsSeptember 4, 2019 ago

Teacher Effectiveness & Retention

Trio of Studies Confirms Benefits from Teachers’ Visits to Students’ Homes

When teachers visit families at home and ask, “What are your hopes and dreams for your child,” chronic absenteeism goes down, test scores go up, and teachers change their own mindsets. Studies from Johns Hopkins University and RTI International evaluated Parent Teacher Home Visits model in use in 700 communities Read more

By coreeducation, 7 yearsJune 12, 2019 ago

School Reform & Leadership USCEE

Measuring the Social and Emotional Sides of Student Success

The intensifying interest among education policymakers in the social and emotional dimensions of student success is encouraging news. By complementing the important work in recent years to raise standards and strengthen instruction, the increasing focus on school climate and students’ relationships to their peers and their schools is a potentially Read more

By coreeducation, 8 yearsFebruary 26, 2019 ago

Politics & Policy

Few States Have Policies to Fully Address Student Trauma

Despite the pervasive effect of traumatic experiences on student performance,only 11 states encourage or require school staff training on the effects of trauma. Half of states have policies on suicide prevention. And just one state, Vermont, requires a school nurse to be available daily at every school campus. Those are Read more

By coreeducation, 8 yearsFebruary 20, 2019 ago

Politics & Policy

Growth Data: It Matters, and It’s Complicated

Forty-eight states and Washington, DC have committed to measuring and reporting on individual student growth under ESSA. This means everyone in those states – from parents to policymakers – will have more information than before on student performance and school quality. But the questions they’ll be able to answer depend Read more

By coreeducation, 8 yearsFebruary 6, 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

Teacher Effectiveness & Retention

The Full Measure of Teacher Effectiveness

In Education Next, researcher C. Kirabo Jackson explores the results of an important study that reveals that a teacher’s effects on student behavior are more predictive than their effects on test scores — and that the teachers who are most successful in raising test scores are not the same teachers Read more

By coreeducation, 8 yearsNovember 6, 2018 ago

School Reform & Leadership Teacher Effectiveness & Retention USCEE

What Students Can Show Us About How School Is Letting Them Down-and How to Fix It

Three years ago, TNTP set out to understand how so many students could graduate from high school unprepared for the lives they want to lead. To find out, they followed nearly 4,000 students in three large urban districts, one small rural district, and one charter network with three schools in Read more

By coreeducation, 8 yearsOctober 10, 2018 ago

School Reform & Leadership

Reimagining Middle School

Robert C. Pianta, Dean of the University of Virginia Curry School of Education, recently wrote an article for RealClear Education in which he discusses the pitfalls of middle school and the possibilities for middle grades education. Excerpts from his piece appear below: Compliance. Restraint. Passivity. These are the behaviors and Read more

By coreeducation, 9 yearsMay 10, 2018 ago

Assessment Politics & Policy

Innovative Assessment in New Hampshire

For those wondering what ESSA’s Innovative Testing Pilot might bring, look no further than New Hampshire. The Obama administration granted New Hampshire a first-of-its-kind waiver in 2015, allowing a subset of school districts to try out new exams made up of “complex, multi-part tasks that ask students to apply what Read more

By coreeducation, 9 yearsJanuary 24, 2018 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.