This post is by Students at the Center Distinguished Fellows Lori McEwen, and the Assistant Superintendent of the North Attleborough (MA) Public Schools, and Arthur Baraf, principal of The Met School ...

Over the two and a half years I served as Maine’s Commissioner of Education, I visited schools all over my state, and those visits followed a fairly standard pattern. I would be greeted at the ...

A report from the Clayton Christensen Institute offers unique insights and recommendations for education as schools strive to move toward student-centered learning practices. In the report, author ...

Shifting from an industrial-age education model to a post-industrial learner-centered model is an essential part of preparing students for college and 21st century careers, and the process works best ...

Student-Centered Pedagogy in Practice was a daylong, interactive workshop designed to support instructors in developing student-centered course materials and teaching strategies. Through a combination ...

This morning, Heather recalled how a professor’s inclusive in-class grammar made learning more engaging. In this post, I want to think about how we frame our pedagogy, to ourselves and to our ...

I am reflexively wary of buzzwords. Any mention of “adaptive software” sets my teeth grinding. Whenever I hear the phrase “college and career ready,” I’m tempted to light myself on fire. Even ...

For student-centered learning to thrive, teachers need to learn new ways to manage their classrooms, such as using data regularly to identify each student’s learning needs and targeting their ...

Education Evolving is a Minnesota nonprofit and nonpartisan organization pushing for student-centered learning in Minnesota’s schools. “We believe that students must take responsibility for their ...

When I first tried my hand at writing fiction, I was working under the spell of writers like Raymond Carver, Ann Beattie, Bobbie Ann Mason, Richard Ford. I was amazed at how they could make such ...