"Hope Street Group (HSG) National Teacher Fellows (NTFs) are fulltime classroom teachers who serve as local and national spokespersons, trained to explore their state's education policy efforts and engage their peers in solutions-based conversations. This year, our NTF cohort consisted of 18 teachers and instructional coaches representing 17 states. Together, they collected data the United States Department of Education (USDOE), the American Association for Colleges of Teacher Education (AACTE), and state leaders can use to inform their policy decisions in order to improve teacher preparation for future educators."

"Call it "active learning," or "classroom participation" -- every teacher wants to know how to motivate students to particpate, and how to nurture more involved students and fewer apathetic ones. With a little extra planning, that is possible"

The XQ Institute is in service of parents and pioneers, entrepreneurs and teachers, business leaders and administrators, youth and education experts-who are joining a movement to rethink America's schools. Together, we can use our knowledge, rigor, and creativity to create a new model for school itself.

"After last week's announcement of a new effort to address widespread disparities in the treatment of students of color with disabilities, we asked two educators to react to the news, drawing on their own experiences as special education teachers."

Keene State Student talks about living with her disability as a college student .

"9 types of Millennial students Where they are, what they want, and how to serve them"

"With each Check & Connect training we conduct, we feel (and often hear) the same frustration when it comes to parental involvement in school. What is interesting, is that after we discuss Check & Connect's belief in family engagement versus parental involvement, I hear new and creative ways that school staff are reaching out and engaging families, often without even realizing it."

Interviewing, finding a job, and going to work every day may seem like distant goals for your child right now, but you can still do things today to prepare youth for future employment.

"This 19-minute video is intended for administrators, counselors, and district staff leading student engagement and dropout prevention efforts in their schools and districts, as well as secondary educators helping students transitioning into high school. The video draws from experiences and findings from researchers, practitioners, and students. It begins with an overview of the challenges facing students transitioning into high school and then focuses on three promising practices to help students manage the transition and stay on track to graduate: * Using data to identify students at risk of dropping out. * Providing academic supports to students who need help. * Connecting students to caring adults."

"View the CCRS Center's Professional Learning Modules (PLMs), a collection of customizable, content-rich, "train-the-trainer" resources, designed to walk participants through a process for implementing college and career ready initiatives.  The PLM materials include: A facilitator's guide that provides facilitation tips and script for trainers. A meeting agenda with recommended time allotments A PowerPoint slide presentation Professional learning activity handouts"

"The CCRS Center, in partnership with the Center on Great Teachers and LeadersExternal Links icon (GTL Center) and RTI InternationalExternal Links icon, developed Integrating Employability Skills: A Framework for All Educators, a Professional Learning Module (PLM), to support regional comprehensive centers, state educational agency staff, and state regional centers in building their knowledge and capacity to integrate and prioritize employability skills at the state and local levels."

"The notion of education implies that there's a path towards a definitive, finished state wherein an individual has become "educated." But in a world of accelerated change, with rapid disruption cycles in industry and with rising automation, that end state of being "educated" is just no longer meaningful. An individual must have learning agility - the ability to learn, adapt, and apply in quick cycles. "