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…
Three resources to offer how students can critique their world.
If students learn more from succeeding than failing, how can we reframe what it means to fail?
Three resources to help you create safe spaces for queer students.
What do peer-generated questions accomplish in the learning process… and what are their limitations?
Three new (and old) calls to embrace, invigorate, and develop reflective practice.
What if audiobooks could lead students to more creative reading and better listening?
This week’s Beyond the Syllabus pinpoints three bright fires worth approaching more closely. Book Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning. Even before the Atlanta shootings rocked the United States with another round of debates over gun violence and what is or is not a racially-motivated violence, Hong’s collection of essays was a…
A group of teacher-researchers suggest that video might be teachers’ key to better professional development as discussion practitioners.
Three sources to expand your vision of womanhood, across history and now.