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Extending Voice and Choice from School to Home
How can parents support good technology practices by reinforcing them at home?
When You Know Better, Do Better: Four Ways to Start Making Your Classroom Student-Centered
Here are four practices teachers can implement in the classroom to help make learning more student-centered.
Learner Profiles: What Are They, Why Are They Important and How Can You Get Started Co-Creating Them
Learner profiles can help teachers in course design and students to develop agency.
What Students Learn Versus What Teachers Teach
With personalized, competency-based learning, the focus becomes on what students are learning.
Topics: 101
“Knowledge Without Context is Confusion”
When we help student engage with current events, we are planting the seeds for future civic activists.
What Are the Basics of a Trauma-Informed Environment?
The basis of a trauma-informed environment is resilience.
Topics: Overcoming Challenges
What Is the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Assessment and How Is It Used?
The ACE Assessment looks at abuse, neglect and family dysfunction,
Topics: Overcoming Challenges
How Does Complex Trauma Affect Children and Adolescents?
While we may not always know about it, there are children within each of our communities experiencing trauma.
Topics: Overcoming Challenges
What is Complex Trauma?
Trauma is the term used to describe children’s exposure to multiple traumatic events that occur within their primary care-giving system.
Topics: Education Equity
Students Learn from People They Love
The research is clear: emotions and connections, both positive and negative, impact a student’s ability to learn.
Topics: Social Emotional Learning
What Are Reading Advocates and How Do They Encourage Readers?
A reading advocate values literacy; they encourage children to read and model a love of reading.
Caring and Serving Together: The Individual and Community Impact of a Student-Led Organization in Canton, Ohio
C.A.S.T. is a student-led organization dedicated to helping the community of Canton, Ohio.
Topics: Community Partnerships
Cultivating Learner Agency Through Authentic Voice and Choice
When we make all of the decisions for our students, what are we keeping them from doing for themselves?
Topics: Vision and Culture
Perkins V: Five Strategies for Integrating Personalized Learning with Career and Technical Education
Better understand opportunities available in Perkins V and explore strategies for leveraging them to advance personalized learning.
Topics: Education Policy
Navigating the Future of Learning: Webinar Insights
During a recent webinar, authors of Forecast 5.0 discussed how major societal shifts we are experiencing could shape the future...
Chuck Ambrose Talks Personalized Learning, Math and More on “Class in Session”
Chuck Ambrose joined Byron White on StrivePartnership’s radio talk show “Class in Session.”
Topics: Community Partnerships
When You Think About the Future, What’s Your Time Horizon?
Exploring the future with a longer time horizon allows freedom to think as broadly as possible about potential changes and...
Everyone Has a “Why.” Do You Know the “Whys” in Your Learning Community?
Starting with the “Why” behind the decisions we make about teaching and learning is powerful.
Topics: 101
Frequently Asked Questions About Social-Emotional Learning
Social-emotional learning is critical to students’ future success – but what is it, exactly?
Topics: Social Emotional Learning
Four Strategies for the Successful Integration of Social-Emotional Learning and Personalized Learning
An intentional focus on social-emotional learning benefits all learners, no matter their experiences or needs.
Topics: Social Emotional Learning
Discussion Guides for Forecast 5.0: Navigating the Future of Learning
These discussion guides are intended to help you explore and engage with future possibilities.
Webinar Research Briefing: Navigating the Future of Learning
The authors of our forecast on the future of learning discuss how the major societal shifts we are currently experiencing...
Student-Driven Restorative Justice
These middle school students are leading restorative justice circles to remedy conflict and teen drama.
Topics: Overcoming Challenges