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 This blog is no longer being updated, but you can continue to explore these issues on edweek.org by visiting our related topic pages: student learning.
Professional Development
Opinion
We Are Not Newtonian Billiard Balls! The Need for a New Approach to Adult Learning
Professional development needs to be organized around what we know about how learning takes place, rather than around the mechanistic approach currently used.
Education
Opinion
How Education Technology Can Transform Learning for the Better
Successful examples from Singapore and the United States show that how technology is implemented in schools makes all the difference for student learning.
Education
Opinion
To Reach Disaffected Youth, Push for 'Credible Messengers'
Peer mentoring can inform, support, and guide youth who have started down dangerous paths, says Kathleen Cushman.
School & District Management
Opinion
Listening to Learners: The Starting Point for Real Change
In this post, Judy Halbert and Linda Kaser explain how an inquiry process that begins with listening to students can lead to powerful learning experiences.
Teaching Profession
Opinion
The Whole Game in Microcosm: A Powerful Approach to Teacher Learning
In this post, Jal Mehta argues that "the whole game at the junior level" is a good strategy for teacher learning as well as student learning.
Teaching Profession
Opinion
'Inside-Out' Solutions Require Time and Leadership
Work that begins in classrooms that transforms the conditions for teaching and learning can be effective--if done right, according to Jon Snyder of SCOPE.
Assessment
Opinion
When Learners Get "Stuck," Try Thinking Like An Artist
This post is by Jacob Watson, a theatre artist and educator from Chicago, IL, and a recent graduate of the Arts in Education program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education
Student Well-Being
Opinion
The 'Ripple Effects' of Integrating Social-Emotional Learning into Elementary Learning
The principal of a school in Washington, DC, describes a shift toward equity, diversity, and inclusion.
Student Well-Being
Opinion
Van Ness Elementary: Integrating Social and Emotional Learning in Compelling Ways
The principal of an elementary school in Washington, DC, describes how she and her staff broadened the focus of the school towards broader, more holistic goals for students.
Education
Opinion
Transforming the Classroom Through Student Action
A project on gender equity by students at an EL Education school in New York City turned scholarship into citizenship.
Education
Opinion
Breaking Stereotypes: The Power of Human Connection for Students
Through a project on immigration, students from an EL Education school learn about getting smart to do good.
Education
Opinion
How I Learned to Lead
For a fourth grader at an EL Education school in California, her learning empowered her to make a difference in her community--and to show adults how that can be done.
States
Opinion
How do We Set Guardrails Around Personalized, Deeper Learning?
States are finding ways to foster the development of personalized, student-centered learning while ensuring equity.
Personalized Learning
Opinion
Building Capacity for Personalized, Student-Centered Education
The Innovation Lab Network has identified the four conditions needed for a shift to personalized, student-centered learning.