The New “Social Skills”
Educators work on social skills every day; students use social media all day. What does it mean to equip them for the futures they hope for?
Want to build a discussion skills program?
Destination: Discussion
Information & Inspiration
from real teachers, real students & real research
Office Hours: 30 Minutes with Alexis Wiggins
“When I considered my values or goals for discussion, I realized that my goal wasn’t to have kids speak more, but to encourage them to ask questions, to reference the text more often, to be unafraid to say they’ve rethought and want to follow up with a question.”
Co-Creating Courses with Students? It’s possible.
A study of Bryn Mawr and Haverford Colleges inspires us to imagine co-creating curriculum with our students.
Thinking More Deeply about the Present Moment
Preparing to teach on climate change, bias, and Afghanistan this fall.
Protagonists: 20 Minutes with Chris White
“We don’t “team teach” but we’re on each other’s team, if that makes sense.”
Networks for Deeper Learning
Hernández, Laura E. and Linda Darling-Hammond, Deeper Learning Networks: Taking Student-Centered Learning and Equity to Scale. This week’s Footnotes focuses on Hernández and Darling-Hammond’s 2019 report on deeper learning for the Learning Policy Institute. This concise report offers research-based action plans for implementing Deeper Learning in public and charter school networks. Using the examples of…
Critical Consumption Beyond the Syllabus
Three resources to offer how students can critique their world.
Protagonists: 20 minutes with Will Rehrig
“In Chemistry, anytime you can get students to do chemistry themselves, it’s like magic, and then when they’re explaining and they realize they can understand why it’s happening, it leads to really great insight. I really do think of it like magic. They’ve seen the wizard behind the curtain.”
Office Hours: 30 minutes with Jamie Piltch
“It’s not enough to say ‘don’t do this’; we need to help give students identity and meaning apart from status, and I think teaching about citizenship and civic engagement is a phenomenal way to do that.”
Can Failure Undermine Learning?
If students learn more from succeeding than failing, how can we reframe what it means to fail?
