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Video that makes you think about how teaching with technology is much more than accessing Information... it is about developing student Curation Skills of identifying, connecting, creating greater meaning, and then sharing new ideas around that information.

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The creativity guru shares his vision for a new way of educating children.

Maintaining a strongly supportive school system in which teachers and students share responsibility for results Finland has one of the world's best performing education systems. Thanks to years of steady progress in education reform, its secondary school students regularly achieve high scores in PISA tests.

"...research indicates that service learning can: *increase students' personal, interpersonal and social development (Billig 2000) *increase motivation, student engagement, and school attendance (Billig 2000) *and, lead to new perspectives and more "positive lifestyle choices and behavior." (Civic Literacy Project 2005)"

"If you look at four-year-olds, they are constantly asking questions and wondering how things work. But by the time they are 6½ years old, they stop asking questions because they quickly learn that teachers value the right answers more than provocative questions. High school students rarely show inquisitiveness."

Australian lit. review of mostly US & UK research on effects of high-stakes testing...sections on: Reliability, Student Health & Well-being, Learning, Teaching, and Curriculum.

"This is the workspace for an online course Introduction to E-Portfolios in K-12 Schools, developed by Dr. Helen Barrett."

Great resource for Project Based Learning.

The Driving Question Tubric 2.0 located under the tools tab on this site is a great hands-on way to demonstrate creating driving questions.

Extensive resource for everything that you need for Project Based Learning. Video, Tools, Research Adam Rosenberg posted this a while ago, definitely worth another look.

While Volunteering and Service-Learning are not exactly the same, they share common foundations which apply here. Article contains many validating reasons for incorporating pieces into curriculum.

"...positive effect on grades, self-concept, and attitudes toward education. Volunteering also led to reduced drug use and huge declines in dropout rates and teen pregnancies."

"Ken Robinson believes that everyone is born with extraordinary capability. So what happens to all that talent as we bump through life, getting by, but never realizing our true potential? For most of us the problem isn't that we aim too high and fail - it's just the opposite - we aim too low and succeed."

Where neuroscience meets pedagogy.

Many educators are experimenting with the idea of a flipped classroom model. So what is it and why is everyone talking about it?

The National Coalition for Dialogue & Deliberation (NCDD) promotes the use of dialogue, deliberation, and other innovative group processes to help people come together across differences to tackle our most challenging problems. Great resources to use in classrooms for democratic and deliberative dialogue.

Hi Mary, you might be interested in the National School Reform Faculty. Professionally it is a great resource, but I have used many of the protocols in my classroom. They are great for opening up dialogs and giving students a voice in the classroom. National School Reform Faculty

"Tony Wagner recently accepted a position as the first Innovation Education Fellow at the Technology & Entrepreneurship Center at Harvard. Prior to this, he was the founder and co-director of the Change Leadership Group at the Harvard Graduate School of Education for more than a decade. Tony consults widely to schools, districts, and foundations around the country and internationally. His previous work experience includes twelve years as a high school teacher, K-8 principal, university professor in teacher education, and founding executive director of Educators for Social Responsibility."

Service-Learning can… 1. Improve character values and responsible behavior. 2. Improve academic outcomes for students. 3. Promote a sense of connectedness to the school and the community 4. Promote social-emotional skills. 5. Promote civic participation.

Events & trainers for training in School Transformation, PLCs, Common Assessments, SMART Goals, RTI, etc.

"…service-learning inherently teaches the kind of thinking skills and knowledge application necessary for success outside academia. Student products of service-learning, including comprehensive projects and analytic journals, require demonstration of critical thinking and problem solving skills in multiple contexts. In addition, service-learning often provides the right balance of challenge and support to foster intellectual growth and development (Eyler & Giles, 1999)."

"If we are to solve for creativity in education, we need a common language that defines what creativity in education means-a set of common values, subjects, and metrics that we can all agree on."

"No matter what line of work you're in or where you're at in life, we're all trying to sell our ideas on a regular basis. (While we'll be using the terms "sellers" and "buyers" in this post, these are just easy ways to refer to the people trying to convince someone of something, and the people they're trying to convince).