Learning Deeply
In this blog, organized by Harvard education professor Jal Mehta and Washington-based education writer Robert Rothman, students, teachers, administrators, researchers, and policymakers explored the practice and policy issues around expanding deeper learning. This blog is no longer being updated, but you can continue to explore these issues on edweek.org by visiting our related topic pages: student learning.
Student Well-Being & Movement
Opinion
The Science Behind Summit Public Schools' Model
A new white paper outlines the research that undergirds the policies and practices of a successful school network.
Social Studies
Opinion
Bringing Youth into the Political Process: Turning 18 in 2018
A pilot program in New York City seeks to engage young people in voting and elections and build a "civic infrastructure for youth."
Assessment
Opinion
Funding Student Success: How to Fund Personalized, Competency-Based Learning
States have several options in revising funding systems to support competency-based, personalized learning, says Jennifer Poon of the Center for Innovation in Education.
Teaching Profession
Opinion
When Teachers Need to Learn Deeply
One district's experience shows that creating deeper learning experiences for teachers that involve content knowledge and inquiry, while challenging, can produce great results.
Teaching Profession
Opinion
For Deeper Teacher Learning, Follow the Teachers' Lead
The effectiveness of professional development depends on how teachers experience it, not necessarily on the "best practices."
Equity & Diversity
Opinion
The White Journey to Racial Awareness: A Stage Theory
In this blog, Jal Mehta reflects on stages of white understandings of race, with implications for education.
Education
Opinion
Three Theories of Educational Change
Because the need for social justice and for the ability to solve complex problems are equally urgent, critical pedagogy and constructivism are both necessary to support deep learning for all students.
Equity & Diversity
Opinion
Why Dewey Needs Freire, But Not Vice Versa; Critical Consciousness-Raising as a Form of Deeper Learning
Although the two approaches are often considered in separate silos, critical pedagogy, done properly, is deeper learning.
Education
Opinion
How to Get to Big, Hairy Audacious Goals
To build a professional culture that embraces deeper learning, leaders need to walk the talk, a former EL Education principal says.
Education
Opinion
Two Things Principals Can Do to Support Deeper Learning
A former principal suggests that improving teacher practice requires leaders to engage teachers in improvement and providing time and support for teacher collaboration.
Education
Opinion
The Radical Act of Leading for Deeper Learning
An EL Education school shows that a focus on deeper learning demands leaders who trust and support teachers to create rich curriculum and to engage students as whole beings rather than simply as data points.
Personalized Learning
Opinion
Some Promising Findings, and Some Cautions, on Personalization
A new study from the Rand Corporation finds modest gains in student achievement from schools implementing personalization, but challenges in making it work.
Reading & Literacy
Opinion
Who Reads Deeply Anymore? These Students!
A San Francisco teacher finds that Sustained Silent Reading helps engage students in reading, which enables them to learn about themselves and other cultures and build critical skills.
Equity & Diversity
Opinion
Getting to Equity Through the Unique Gifts of Learners
Equity means honoring the unique qualities of each student, not expecting all students to do the same things. A network of "next generation" schools has discovered lessons in applying that principle.