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Discovering the Drop Down Menu
By Amber Chandler, American Federation of Teachers member and 7th and 8th grade English Language Arts Teacher at Frontier Middle School in Hamburg, NYAbout two years ago I decided that I knew the...
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When the Digital Divide Meets a Systems Approach
While the ‘digital divide’ is well documented, studies show mixed results when trying to document technology’s influence on learning for at-risk students. In part, this is because the digital learning...
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Deeper Learning Described and Defined
By Jim Bellanca, for the Partnership for 21st Century Skills (P21)What happens when evidence challenges “yes buts” about deeper learning? My 9th grade English teacher always insisted that I define the...
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Catching Character: What We’re Leaving Out of Common Core Implementation
Common Core implementation brings more rigorous standards, new assessments, increased online technical demands and significant shifts in curriculum and instruction. Why, then, should we also ask...
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STEM for All Kids
STEM is far more nuanced than the acronym suggests. At an early December NCTET-sponsored event at Discovery Education headquarters, the focus was on the importance of STEM in teaching and...
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What Makes a School a 21st Century Learning Exemplar?
By Tatyana Warrick, Communications Manager, Partnership for 21st Century Skills (P21)As of today, there are 40 schools across the country recognized by the Partnership for 21st Century Skills (P21) as...
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More Evidence That More Time Is Needed to Get Common Core Right
A December report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) – the independent, nonpartisan agency that works for Congress and investigates how the federal government spends taxpayer dollars...
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Falling Through the Cracks: Reaching the Dropout Population
Students that drop out of school may vanish from the school system, but they do not disappear from society. They will reappear in court or prison, in the unemployment numbers that are released each...
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An Interview with 2014 PDK Emerging Leader Deanna Martindale
Deanna Martindale is a 2014 PDK Emerging Leader and principal at Hebron Elementary School in Ohio. She has spent nineteen years in education, teaching sixth grade, serving as a professional development...
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On Their Own: How to Advance Self-Directed Learning Outside School
Written by Jim Bellanca,P21 Senior Fellow and co-editor of Becoming Self-Directed Learners.Ephie was facing her first solo outside the school walls. It was her senior capstone project. It wasn’t her...
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CoSN Celebrates Digital Equity Day with New Toolkit
February 17 is Digital Learning Day, and the Consortium for School Networking is excited to also announce the launch of a new Digital Equity Action Toolkit for district leaders.Introduced through...
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Teacher Shows How Communication With Parents is More Than a Grade
What if I do more than share grades with parents?I recently met with two parents and their son. It was a conference to discuss how he was doing in class and what they could do at home to help. If that...
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Technology Helps Students Avoid the “Summer Slide”
Summer slide refers to a decrease or loss of academic skills over the summer break. As summer goes by, if students do not actively engage in learning experiences, the progress they had made throughout...
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Focus on Career Skills Drives Turnaround of California Middle School
This guest blog was written by teacher Nichole Santangelo for the Partnership for 21st Century Learning. Learn more about Rancho Minerva, a P21 Exemplar School, in this Success Story.How Can a Middle...
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Baltimore County Measures the Impact of Technology Initiatives
Using technology in meaningful ways is as essential to today’s teaching and learning as reading, writing, and arithmetic. Stakeholders from around Baltimore County understood this urgency and...
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