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Educators Rising Standards

Jun 27, 2016 | Learning on the EDge

The journey to accomplished teaching is a marathon. What should the first steps look like? Educators Rising Standards are the teaching profession’s answer to this vital question.

Researchers and school districts can partner to benefit education practice

Jun 21, 2016 | Learning on the EDge

Too often, researchers have treated districts, schools, and classrooms as “data collection sites,” rather than as partners.

The fine (and important) points of guided play

Jun 2, 2016 | Learning on the EDge

In guided play, it’s crucial that children direct the action because it gives them the autonomy to make decisions about what to do in any given moment.

Listening to teachers

May 24, 2016 | Learning on the EDge

The Center on Education Policy report detailed the results of a national survey of public school teachers.

The autopsy of school reform

May 16, 2016 | Learning on the EDge

The last three generations of the School Reform Family died from one of three causes.

Differentiated instruction in a gluten-free world

May 11, 2016 | Learning on the EDge

Differentiated instruction can be a tough sell in educational circles. Some of the resistance can be attributed to misconceptions about what it is and how to do it.

Debunking myths about school choice

May 4, 2016 | Learning on the EDge

School choice is not better, it is just different.

Does competency-based professional development have legs?

Apr 13, 2016 | Learning on the EDge

There’s a lot of chatter in teacher education circles about competency-based professional...

Minority Serving Institutions: The pathway to more black male teachers

Apr 7, 2016 | Learning on the EDge

If we truly want to move the needle on the recruiting and retaining black male teachers, we have to look to and engage Minority Serving Institutions.

The story of evidence

Mar 30, 2016 | Learning on the EDge

Scientific evidence is not the only source of evidence nor is it the source of evidence that always holds high ground in decision processes.

A teacher changed my life — now I want to do that for others

Mar 24, 2016 | Learning on the EDge

While Jan was everything I needed her to be as a teacher — caring, consistent, and creative — she is really the only teacher in all my 12 years of school that I remember fondly.

Let’s think about teacher-student relationships

Mar 17, 2016 | Learning on the EDge

Positive student-teacher relationships are more powerful than a lot of other things we do. Simply said, students don’t learn well from grown-ups they don’t like.