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 This blog is no longer being updated, but you can continue to explore these issues on edweek.org by visiting our related topic pages: student learning.
Equity & Diversity
Opinion
Authentic Equity Leadership: A Listening Journey
The CEO of Envision Education describes how that organization sought to make itself more equitable. It started with listening.
Equity & Diversity
Opinion
Change the Conversation: What Educators Need to Be Talking About
In order to make education equitable, educators need to confront white supremacy.
School & District Management
Opinion
Why Schools Need to Change. Really.
Trends in employment, learning, and opportunity call for substantial changes in schooling. What can educators do?
States
Opinion
Student Self-Advocacy Requires Deeper Policymaking
Policymakers should develop and exemplify deeper learning competencies in order to ensure that all students have opportunities to develop them as well.
Teaching Profession
Opinion
Low-Level Assignments Are an Indictment of the System
An analysis of middle school mathematics assignments suggests that teachers lacked opportunities to develop lessons to tap students' deeper learning competencies.
Teaching
Opinion
Deeper Learning with Dirt, Squishy Leaves, Paint, and Clay
An opportunity for first graders to get their hands dirty developed their critical thinking, reading, and writing skills as well.
Mathematics
Opinion
Cognitively-Guided Instruction: Supporting Students to Create Their Own Mathematical Understanding
A student-centered approach to teaching mathematics enables students to develop conceptual understanding and to grow as confident mathematicians.
Special Education
Opinion
After 20 Years, It's Time for an Inclusion Update
Two decades after federal law called for inclusion of students with disabilities, educators need to do more to make that vision a reality.
Assessment
Opinion
Measuring Competencies that Count: Using High-Quality Systems of Assessment
Despite the challenges, states and districts need to develop high-quality systems of assessment to ensure students have the skills they need in a changing economy.
School Climate & Safety
Opinion
The Case for New School Designs
The need to build new schools in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia provides an opportunity to throw out obsolete ideas about how schools should operate and introduce new designs.
Education
Opinion
Learning Deeply in Dark Times
Students demonstrating deeper learning to address difficult issues bring hope, writes Kathleen Cushman.
Education
Opinion
The Deeper Learning Movement Needs Deeper Learning Leaders
School leaders need to be supported to be able to create environments in which teachers can think critically about their instruction.
Personalized Learning
Opinion
Student-Centered Learning and Inclusion: Getting the Details Right
A new report highlights ways the Students at the Center Framework for student-centered learning can be used to incorporate student agency in a more inclusive way for students with disabilities.
College & Workforce Readiness
Opinion
Dream Teams: What Happens When Adults and Students Come Together to Shoot for the Stars?
A new approach to education helps students set goals for their future and provides mentorship and support to enable them to move toward reaching them.