Learning Deeply
In this blog, organized by Harvard education professor Jal Mehta and Washington-based education writer Robert Rothman, students, teachers, administrators, researchers, and policymakers explored the practice and policy issues around expanding deeper learning. This blog is no longer being updated, but you can continue to explore these issues on edweek.org by visiting our related topic pages: student learning.
Education
Opinion
The Blog Is Ending, But Deeper-Learning Work Goes On
In their final post for Learning Deeply, Robert Rothman and Jal Mehta reflect on the deeper-learning movement and the role the blog played in it.
Education
Opinion
Race, Grit, Unlearning, and Systems Change: A Dozen Favorites From the Past Five Years
Jal Mehta highlights a dozen of his "greatest hits," some of his most significant blog posts from the past five years.
School Climate & Safety
Opinion
How Districts Can Empower Teachers to Lead Change
In this post, John Watkins describes how the Oakland school district empowered its teachers to develop a new approach to developing and evaluating senior capstone projects.
Education
Opinion
The Paradox of Leading for Deeper Learning
Spreading deeper learning across districts requires a different type of leadership, one that avoids top-down mandates and allows learning and ownership.
Education
Opinion
New School Models in the U.S.: 10 Things We Have Learned
Working with innovative schools in the United States has taught this U.K.-based nonprofit a number of lessons that will help in its redesign of new schools in the United Kingdom.
Equity & Diversity
Opinion
Disadvantage Is Not Destiny: Equity From a Global Perspective
Achievement gaps are a global phenomenon, but some countries do better than others in bringing disadvantaged students to high levels of learning.
Education
Opinion
Developing Assessments for Learning That Lead to Equity
A California school engages students in internships that deepen their learning and assesses their competencies in ways that promote equity.
Personalized Learning
Opinion
Does Your School Support Deep, Long-Lasting Learning? Part 2: Flexible, Student-Centered Learning
Research suggests ways to design schools that are responsive to students' various differences and that ask them to take a more hands-on role in shaping their own learning.
Education
Opinion
Does Your School Support Deep, Long-Lasting Learning? Part 1: Emotions and Social Connections
How can schools be designed to incorporate students' emotions and social connections?
Student Well-Being
Opinion
Harnessing the Power of Hope for Students
The 2017 Teacher of the Year describes ways to show students that their voices are powerful.
Student Well-Being
Opinion
A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Waste: Reaching 'School Skeptics' Through High-Challenge Interventions
Introducing "school skeptics" to gifted and talented curriculum helps engage them and keep them out of the school-to-prison pipeline.
Education
Opinion
Storytelling: Deeper Than Learning
Telling stories, rather than explaining, encourages a deeper connection and invites the listener to create her own meaning.
Student Well-Being
Opinion
'Who' and 'What' Play Ball for a Winning Combination for Youth Development
Connections and relationships (who) matter as much as knowledge and skills (what), argues Elliot Washor.
Assessment
Opinion
What Is a Good School?
The quality of a school is evident in student work and how it is assessed, says Justin Wells of Envision Learning Partners.