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 This blog is no longer being updated, but you can continue to explore these issues on edweek.org by visiting our related topic pages: student learning.
Teaching
Opinion
Busting the Learning Boundary Between School and World
In this post, Grant Lichtman shows how some schools have dissolved the boundaries between themselves and the outside world.
Education
Opinion
Creating a School Where All Students Belong and Can Succeed
A school in Queens, NY, is using data to determine how well students have a sense of belonging and engagement.
Social Studies
Opinion
Becoming Ethical: When Service Is More Than a Project
Providing community service to residents of Houston after a "hard rain" helped students in a South Carolina school become citizens as well as scholars.
Teaching Profession
Opinion
What Motivates Teachers to 'Opt In?'
Teachers, like students, need to be connected to and cared for by their school community, says Anne Vilen of EL Education.
Education
Opinion
Understanding Transformational Leadership: Our Journey
CCSSO's Innovation Manager explains the development of leadership competencies and steps to help state leaders use them effectively.
States
Opinion
Learning About Vulnerability: My Summer of Deeper Learning
Working with states at the leading edge of educational innovation helped a summer fellow at CCSSO learn about the importance of taking risks.
Education
Opinion
Using Leadership Competencies to Drive Equity, Innovation, and Improvement
A set of competencies, developed by CCSSO and Jobs for the Future, can help school leaders improve practices in learner-centered schools.
Assessment
Opinion
Performance Assessments and Students with Disabilities
Performance assessments have the potential to ensure that instruction for students with disabilities is aligned with state standards.
Personalized Learning
Opinion
Factory-Model Change Won't End the Era of Factory-Model Schools
In this post, Andy Calkins argues that moving to new school models requires a new theory of change.
Personalized Learning
Opinion
Transforming High Schools: It Takes More Than a TV Show
A star-studded television special highlighting promising school designs is exciting, but true transformation will need the efforts of hundreds of thousands of educators, working together.
Equity & Diversity
Opinion
Can Employability Skills Be Assessed Equitably?
New assessments to measure deeper learning competencies can focus attention on those skills, but also can be used in discriminatory ways, say Rafael Heller and Mary Wright.
Teaching Profession
Opinion
Disruptive Students Wanted: What Happens When Students Coach Teachers
By making the teaching process more transparent to students, students become more engaged in learning, a teacher at High Tech Middle Chula Vista writes.
Reading & Literacy
Opinion
4 Ways to Empower Young Writers
A humanities teacher at High Tech High Chula Vista describes a process for getting students to learn--and learn to love--writing.
Education
Opinion
Transforming the Way Students See Themselves
A teacher at High Tech Elementary finds that when students have the chance to do work that matters, and to present that work to people who matter to them, it makes students believe that they matter.