Educators Flex for Effectiveness
It is a new school year and I still find myself instinctively gearing up for the pace and rigor of starting a new year. Until a few years ago, my work was in California public schools, coordinating state-level student assessments, managing textbook adoptions and...
Dedicated to Detroit
Last week’s blog by ISKME’s Director of Research, Cynthia Jimes, focused on how institutions are supporting the development of social and emotional learning skills in students. This week we’ll get a glimpse of the work we at ISKME are doing to support skill...
Standards for Social Emotional Learning
My colleague Amee Godwin’s recent blog post about the importance of supporting students’ social emotional learning made me reflect on my own experiences as an undergraduate in journalism. In my junior year, while sitting in the student union wearing my uniform of...
Action Collabs: Straight Out of the Kitchen, Made to Order in Italy
Like most good conversations, it started over dinner. This past October, my colleague Megan Simmons and I were in Chios, Greece facilitating Action Collabs for the inaugural Green Ideas Project. One night at dinner I was sitting with an international array of...
Unburden Your Emotional Backpack
Unpacking emotions to nurture student success As my colleague Shenandoah Weiss outlined in her last post, Lessons for Learning, managing fear, cultivating trust, and encouraging creativity are all essential building blocks for productive, holistic learning. I...