This post is by Kathleen Cushman. Her most recent book, with WKCD colleague Barbara Cervone, is Belonging and Becoming: The Power of Social and Emotional Learning in High Schools (Harvard Education ...

Visible Learning changed our practices away from activities that are actually harmful, like grade retention. It changed our beliefs about things like ability grouping and whole language reading, ...

HONOLULU, Hawaii (HawaiiNewsNow) - At Kaimiloa Elementary School, students take an active role in their education ― going so far as to assess the strength their own performances. It's a method called ...

Amidst the discussions about content standards, curriculum and teaching strategies, it's easy to lose sight of the big goals behind education, like giving students tools to deepen their quantitative ...

Quality Matters Specific Standard 5.1 is “The learning activities promote the achievement of the stated learning objectives or competencies.” The purpose of learning activities is to provide students ...