collaboration

The goal of this study is to provide guidance to educators, assessment developers, and policymakers on how to increase student engagement in performance-based assessments. This report takes up this challenge by examining how students and teachers conceptualize and recognize engagement features...

In this report, Linda Darling-Hammond outlines an integrated approach for a teaching-career continuum and a professional development system that supports effectiveness for teachers at every stage of their careers. The report includes specific guidance about how performance assessments based on...

This paper seeks to clarify the responsibilities of policy makers to create the conditions for an effective accountability system that produces substantial improvements in student learning, strengthens the teaching profession, and provides transparency of results to the public. The authors point...

In this paper, David Conley and Linda Darling-Hammond describe how two multistate assessment consortia are being designed to measure how well students achieve the goals of the Common Core State Standards. As planned, the new consortia assessments should be a significant advance over most states...

This resource outlines a five step process for teachers to collaborate as they categorize student work and identify future learning objectives.

This protocol provides a structured process and a set of analytic questions to guide a collaborative discussion centered around student work. It is best used for collaborative learning among teams of educators.

This resource outlines elements of unit quality as well as guiding questions to promote collaborative analysis of student work.

The purpose of this resource is to explore rubric creation and scoring to better understand rubric use in schools and classrooms.  By examining "cookie quality," educators can practice utilizing a rubric and following an inquiry-based template.

This paper makes a compelling case for “student-centered” practices in the nation’s high schools. The paper does not offer a prescriptive agenda.  But the authors do argue, and the evidence strongly suggests, that students benefit when given ample opportunities to:  

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This report is aimed at supporting state boards of education that are working on providing significantly more students with deeper learning opportunities and facilitating board-level conversations on key related topics. The report provides foundational principles that underlie deeper learning,...

This policy brief describes how four student-centered high schools support student success. In addition, it recommends policy strategies that could sustain schools like these on a much broader scale, so that they become the norm rather than the exception.  The four high schools featured in this...

This report focuses on schools using student-centered practices through either the Linked Learning initiative or Envision Education model. Linked Learning, a state-wide initiative, integrates rigorous academics with career-based learning and real-world workplace experiences.  The main features...

This performance based assessment asks middle school students to evaluate, "How to people persevere through man made and natural crises?"  

Students will research the economic, political, or cultural causes of their family’s migration in an effort to find examples of perseverance. ...

This resource includes learning progressions for active learning, including: self‐assessment and use of feedback, perseverance and revision, collaboration and taking initiative. It was designed by Learner‐Centered Initiatives to assist teachers in recognizing and assessing the development of...

In 2012, states within the Innovation Lab Network (ILN) defined college, career, and citizenship readiness as a function of the interdependence of knowledge, skills, and dispositions. The ESD Developmental Frameworks were created in recognition of the many discipline-specific resources for...

Students will imagine themselves as journalists writing about Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in veterans returning from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, making connections to wars in the past and Hemingway’s literature.

Using direct quotations from Hemingway’s “Soldier’s Home” and “...

In this task students will answer the following essential question: How can you make Romeo and Juliet’s theme and characters relevant to a modern audience? After reading Romeo and Juliet and studying various performances, the students will select a key scene to transpose for a...