Co-Creating Courses with Students? It’s possible.
A study of Bryn Mawr and Haverford Colleges inspires us to imagine co-creating curriculum with our students.
Thinking More Deeply about the Present Moment
Preparing to teach on climate change, bias, and Afghanistan this fall.
Protagonists: 20 Minutes with Chris White
“We don’t “team teach” but we’re on each other’s team, if that makes sense.”
Networks for Deeper Learning
Hernández, Laura E. and Linda Darling-Hammond, Deeper Learning Networks: Taking Student-Centered Learning and Equity to Scale. This week’s Footnotes focuses on Hernández and Darling-Hammond’s 2019 report on deeper learning for the Learning Policy Institute. This concise report offers research-based action plans for implementing Deeper Learning in public and charter school networks. Using the examples of…
Protagonists: 20 minutes with Will Rehrig
“In Chemistry, anytime you can get students to do chemistry themselves, it’s like magic, and then when they’re explaining and they realize they can understand why it’s happening, it leads to really great insight. I really do think of it like magic. They’ve seen the wizard behind the curtain.”
Office Hours: 30 minutes with Jamie Piltch
“It’s not enough to say ‘don’t do this’; we need to help give students identity and meaning apart from status, and I think teaching about citizenship and civic engagement is a phenomenal way to do that.”
Beyond the Syllabus: Editing, Revising, Growing
Three new (and old) calls to embrace, invigorate, and develop reflective practice.
Protagonists: 20 Minutes with Linda Rodriguez
“I always want for the kids in my classes to feel like that: heard, seen, and known.”
Office Hours: 30 Minutes with Danitra Blue
“Teaching the skill of having conversations about identity is different than teaching the skill of how to apply a math formula to the real world. You can’t apply formulas to an identity. We, as educators, have to be comfortable with fumbling through conversations and not having all the answers and having to model what it’s like when you say the wrong thing or learn something.”
Protagonists: 20 minutes with Julia Maxey
“Every once in a while, I wander and look in other people’s classes: I’d like to see what people are doing in other disciplines. How do they handle their lessons? How are they arranging their desks and table? I just ask.”