Sierra Vista High School
Vista, CA:
What’s Preventing Students from Learning in School?
I was once asked, “What would you do with four hundred students who don’t want to learn?” I took a minute to process what she was asking and realized that one of the challenges the whole she was wo…
How YOU Can Be an Advocate for Early Learning
Rhian Allvin, Executive Director of the National Association for the Education of Young Children, explains how YOU can raise your voice to support the early ...
For Adults, Lifelong Learning Happens The Old Fashioned Way
Even after high school or college, Americans keep on learning. While online tools make this easier than ever, a new study finds the vast majority of adults prefer taking classes in physical places.
How Can Schools Tap Into Parent Power For the Good of Students?
A program pays teachers to visit students at home and meet with their family. The home visits have helped parents become better-informed advocates for their kids and stronger allies with teachers.
A virtual tour of blended-learning schools, so others can see how it’s done
When teachers want to try something new in the classroom, it helps if they can see what it looks like in action. They could ask another teacher down the hall. Or they might try to talk to other teachers on social media, perhaps in an education technology Twitter chat. But too often, these aspiring innovators …
How Teachers Are Turning to Social Media to Extend Learning
Teachers are expanding the school day and enhancing learning through social media.
Does Teacher Diversity Matter in Student Learning?
Research shows that students, especially boys, benefit when teachers share their race or gender. Yet most teachers are white women.
Golden Rules for Engaging Students in Learning Activities
Six key rules for student engagement include making it meaningful, fostering efficacy, autonomy support, collaborative learning, establishing positive teacher-student relationships, and mastery orientations.
All Hands On Learning for these ECPI University Students
These ECPI University students take their learning beyond the textbook with hands-on lessons to teach them real applications of what they're studying.
14 classroom management strategies to increase student learning
When the right classroom management tools are in place, students are able to learn more as their engagement increases.<br>Focusing on physical classroom management, behavioral management, resources…
New Effort to Promote Social-Emotional Learning in Schools
A multiyear endeavor organized by the Aspen Institute seeks to help schools better teach social and emotional skills alongside traditional academic subjects.
How to fix our crumbling schools
U.S. school infrastructure is failing. Time to find a new funding scheme.
Arts Integration for Deeper Learning in Middle School
Critical thinking, risk taking, and collaboration -- along with academics and discipline -- are just some of the areas where Bates Middle school educators re...
The Building Blocks of Learning
The good news in education is that attention is finally turning to the psychic and emotional qualities that children bring to the classroom.
Failure Is Essential to Learning
To help these kids make the kinds of gains they need to master the Common Core, students must learn to receive feedback and also how to use it to improve.
Future Ready Schools: Empowering Educators through Professional Learning toolkit
Future Ready Schools: Empowering Educators through Professional Learning toolkit This toolkit provides leaders with a multi-step decision-making process, practical tools, and numerous examples for setting a trajectory of positive change, moving assertively toward achievement of student learning and improvement goals. The toolkit recognizes that improvements in student learning are related to improvements in educator practice …
The case for project-based learning
Far from an educational flash in the pan, project-based learning has been proven to engage and motivate learners, improve comprehension and retention, aid the transfer of knowledge to new contexts, lead to better collaboration, and help students master critical-thinking skills.
The Importance of STEAM Learning
If you are familiar with the technology or educational sectors, you have undoubtedly heard that STEM, which is educational focus in science, tech, engineering and math, is being changed to STEAM, to include the arts. This is an initiative that is being accepted on an increasing scale by institutions, corporations, and education and tech professionals,and we here at Vidcode are totally on board<br>STEAM learning is…
The Role of Metacognition in Learning and Achievement
Learning how to think about thinking can help students develop strategies for solving problems and understand tasks at hand.
22 Hilarious Tweets From Parents Who Are Really Ready For School To Start
