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Deeper Learning 101
Mapping 21st Century Learning Deeper Learning 101 Equity Research ESRI and P21
This interactive map shows schools across the country that are involved in specific programs that promote deeper learning.Deeper Learning for Students with Disabilities Deeper Learning 101 Equity Jobs for the Future
In this report, researchers review efforts to promote better educational outcomes for students with disabilities.Accountability for College and Career Readiness: Developing a New Paradigm Assessment Deeper Learning 101 Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education
This report recommends an accountability approach that focuses on meaningful learning, enabled by professionally skilled and committed educators, and supported by adequate and appropriate resources, so that all students regardless of background are prepared for both college and career when they graduate from high school.Video: What Does Deeper Learning Look Like? Deeper Learning 101 District Model Innovation Alliance for Excellent Education
In this video, you meet the students and teachers of City Arts and Technology (CAT). The high school experience at CAT is entirely focused on supporting students so they can be successful in college, career and life.Video: Deeper Learning from the Superintendent Perspective Deeper Learning 101 Leadership Hewlett Foundation
This video shows the impact of deeper learning from the superintendent perspective.Video: Deeper Learning from the Teacher Perspective Deeper Learning 101 Instruction Professional Learning Teacher Preparation Hewlett Foundation
This video shares teachers' perspectives on deeper learning in their schools.Video: Deeper Learning at Impact Academy Deeper Learning 101 District Model Innovation Leadership Hewlett Foundation
In this video, Rahil, a student at Impact Academy in Hayward, California, describes what the school's deeper learning approach has meant for him and his family.What is Deeper Learning? Deeper Learning 101 Hewlett Foundation
This video shares what deeper learning looks like and gives an overview of the deeper learning movement.Levers2Learn Deeper Learning 101 Innovation BIF Student Experience Lab (SXL) and The Hewlett Foundation
This interactive website explores the barriers and enablers educators face in implementing deeper learning practices in their schools. The site allows visitors to hear educators talk about their day-to-day experiences working to bring deeper learning to their students within the context of public schools.-
Decoding Deeper Learning in the Classroom Deeper Learning 101 Hewlett Foundation
This guidebook helps reporters, parents, and others understand what twenty-first-century learning looks like and whether it’s working. It explains how deeper learning classrooms are designed, what the students are learning, and which questions can be asked to dig deeper with the students and educators. Student-Centered Learning Assessment Deeper Learning 101 Innovation Instruction Education Writers Association
What if students themselves were the focus, and the primary goal was to structure their learning in the way that best met their individual needs?Spotlight on Deeper Learning Deeper Learning 101 Innovation Instruction Research Education Week
This collection of deeper learning articles is hand-picked by Education Week’s editors.Learning Deeply Blog Assessment Deeper Learning 101 Equity Innovation Instruction Leadership Policy Research Education Week
Hosted by Education Week and organized by Harvard education professor Jal Mehta and education writer and former senior fellow at the Alliance for Excellent Education Robert Rothman, explores the practice and policy issues around expanding deeper learning.Description of Deeper Learning Deeper Learning 101 Hewlett Foundation
The Hewlett Foundation details exactly what deeper learning is, why deeper learning is important, how it prepares students, how it is possible for all students, and how the Foundation is committed to ensuring deeper learning gains traction in American education.Essential Reading List for Deeper Learning Deeper Learning 101 Teaching Channel
A comprehensive list of “great reads” recommendations from deeper learning experts.Deeper Learning Defined Deeper Learning 101 Hewlett Foundation
This article defines and details the six deeper learning competencies.Asking More: The Case for Deeper Learning Deeper Learning 101 Equity Hewlett Foundation
A major contribution to educational thinking by emphasizing “deeper learning” as the key to the twenty-first century.Deeper Learning: Highlighting Student Work Deeper Learning 101 District Model Instruction Planning Edutopia
This blog series delves into how and why deeper learning works. This project highlights the best and most crucial aspects of deeper learning.Beyond Knowing Facts: How Do We Get to a Deeper Level of Learning? Deeper Learning 101 Instruction Leadership KQED’s Mindset
Katrina Schwartz reports on her experience with the deeper learning MOOC (massive open online course). In this article, she writes that she feels there is a movement “to codify the different pieces that define the deeper learning approach, and to spread the knowledge from teacher to teacher, school to school” through the MOOC.Study of Deeper Learning: Opportunities and Outcomes Equity Research American Institutes for Research (AIR)
In a series of reports, AIR researchers compare strategies and cultures, students’ deeper learning opportunities, and student outcomes for students who attended high schools that focus on deeper learning (“network schools”) compared to those who attended comparison (“non-network”) schools. August 2016Education for Life and Work: Developing Transferable Knowledge and Skills in the 21st Century Deeper Learning 101 Instruction Research National Research Council at the National AcademiesThis report defines “deeper learning” and “21st century skills”: considers these skills’ importance for positive outcomes in education, work, and other areas of life; addresses how to teach them; and examines related issues. July 2012
Deeper Learning Video Series Deeper Learning 101 District Model Innovation Instruction Teaching Channel
The fifty-plus videos in this series showcase ten deeper learning networks that are preparing students for success; they collectively serve more than 500 schools and 227,000 students.A Time for Deeper Learning: Preparing Students for a Changing World Deeper Learning 101 Equity Federal Policy Policy State Policy Workforce Alliance for Excellent Education
This brief examines deeper learning—the knowledge and skills all students need to succeed in college, a career, and life—and explains its necessity and analyzes the growing body of global evidence supporting its widescale implementation. May 2011
Policy
Engaging Philosophy in the Quest for K-12 Deeper Learning Federal Policy NEW Policy Professional Learning State Policy Teacher Preparation National Association of State Boards of Education
This NASBE policy update suggests embedding philosophy instruction in teacher preparation programs to enable teachers to model skills they want students to acquire.Leveraging Relicensure Policies to Advance Deeper Learning Federal Policy Policy State Policy Teacher Preparation National Association of State Boards of Education
This NASBE policy update urges state boards of education to invigorate relicensure policies by embracing multiple tiers that support teachers throughout their careers and implementing requirements such as work portfolios, individual learning plans, and microcredentials.Ten Steps Every District Should Take Today District Model Policy Consortium for School Networking
This report provides a list of ten essential steps districts should be taking to protect the privacy of student data.Four Policy Priorities to Make Data Work for Students Policy Student Data Principles
This visual piece highlights the four policy principles that need to be made priorities in order to ensure that the data that is produced supports students.10 Foundational Principles for Using and Safeguarding Students’ Personal Information Assessment Policy Student Data Principles
This resource provides information on how educators can effectively use high-quality education data to not only empower themselves, but to empower their students and families with the information they need to make decisions to help all learners succeed.Understanding the Skills in the Common Core State Standards Equity Instruction Policy Achieve
This report identifies the types and ranges of college- and career-ready skills reflected in the Common Core State State Standards in mathematics and English language arts/literacy, using the deeper learning standards and the Career Cluster Essential Knowledge and Skills Statements as benchmarks. December 2012Deeper Learning Skills to Common Core Standards Crosswalk Instruction Policy Educational Policy Improvement Center
This document explores the relationship between deeper learning strategies and Common Core State Standards.Three Studies Show Impact of Deeper Learning Equity Higher Education Policy American Institutes for Research
This blog post references three studies that examine relationships between deeper learning and student outcomes.Deeper Learning: Improving Student Outcomes for College, Career, and Civic Life Planning Policy Research State Policy Workforce American Institutes for Research
To prepare for the demands of postsecondary education and the workforce, students need to master content and build skills that allow them to collaborate with others, and then apply that knowledge to new situations. Students will be able to access a wider range of opportunities in college, career, and civic life if they possess the necessary skills to work with others and critically analyze and address new challenges. August 2015Deeper Learning, A Primer for State Legislators Policy State Policy Education Commission of the States
This primer is created for state policymakers seeking to modify instruction and assessment policies to better engage today’s students. The primer defines deeper learning; explains how it overlaps with other active learning strategies; and describes how it can be and is being accomplished at the state policy level. September 2015Deeper Learning Opportunities Within the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) Federal Policy Policy Alliance for Excellent Education
This video explores how states can use the greater flexibility afforded by the Every Student Succeeds Act to ensure that all students graduate from high school having developed deeper learning outcomes necessary to succeed. These outcomes include the ability to think critically; solve complex problems; collaborate with peers; communicate effectively; and be self-directed.Advancing Deeper Learning Under ESSA: Seven Priorities Policy Jobs for the Future
This brief recommends seven ways for supporters of deeper learning to take advantage of the changing education policy landscape, as authority shifts from the federal government to states and local districts. The authors outline priorities to help the nation’s high schools move from a largely inequitable system to one that prepares all students for college and a career with the full range of academic, personal, and social skills needed for life success. March 2016
Assessment
School Quality Reviews: Promoting Accountability for Deeper Learning Assessment Jobs for the Future
This report explores the potential of SQRs as an accountability mechanism aligned with students' potential for deeper learning.A Framework for Conceptualizing and Evaluating the Validity of Instructionally Relevant Assessments Assessment Educational Psychologist
This repot utilizes conceptual frameworks that builds on existing validity concepts and focuses attention on three components: cognitive validity, instructional validity, and inferential validity. The goal in presenting the framework is to clarify the concept of validity, including key components of the interpretive argument, while considering the types and forms of evidence needed to construct a validity argument for classroom assessments.Project Narrative: Creating a State Vision to Support the Design and Implementation of an Innovative Assessment and Accountability System Assessment Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) Policy KnowledgeWorks, Center for Assessment, and Nellie Mae Education Foundation
The goal of this report is to help states identify and explore a set of readiness conditions that are critical to the development of a high quality application and implementation process under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA).Not as Easy as It Sounds: Designing a Balanced Assessment System Assessment National Association of State Boards of Education
In the words of educational psychologist Theodore Coladarci: “A collection of assessments does not entail a system any more than a pile of bricks constitutes a house.” This article focuses on building the house.A Supporting State Policy Framework for Next Generation Assessment Systems Assessment Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) Policy KnowledgeWorks
This report is a set of policies, informed by existing state laws, which create the policy conditions necessary for states and districts to successfully implement a next generation assessment system at scale, increasing student and stakeholder engagement.Ensuring and Evaluating Assessment Quality for Innovative Assessment and Accountability Systems Assessment Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) Policy State Policy KnowledgeWorks
This is the second in a series of policy and practice briefs produced by KnowledgeWorks and the National Center for the Improvement of Educational Assessment (Center for Assessment) designed to assist states in thinking through the opportunities and challenges associated with flexibility provided under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA).The Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing Assessment American Educational Research Association, American Psychological Association, and the National Council on Measurement in Education.
This report discusses the foundations, operations, and the application of testing.To Assess, To Teach, To Learn: A Vision for the Future of Assessment Assessment The Gordon Commission on the Future of Assessment in Education
This report configures different papers discussing the historical context for assessments, accountability and validity of assessments, as well as the future of assessments in terms of inclusion of special populations and technology.A New Era for Educational Assessment Assessment Jobs for the Future
In this paper, researchers argue that the time is ripe for a major shift in educational assessment.How School Districts Can Support Deeper Learning: The Need for Performance Alignment Assessment District Model Jobs for the Future
This report addresses the different challenges districts may face implementing districtwide initiatives for deeper learning. The researchers then describe how pioneering districts are pursing performance alignment and give their recommendations for other districts to do the same.Teachers at Work—Six Exemplars of Everyday Practice: The Student at the Center Series Assessment Leadership Teacher Preparation Jobs for the Future
In this Students at the Center series, Jobs for the Future report on what teaching and learning look like in a student-centered school through analysis of six such schools.Student-Centered Assessment Video Suite Assessment Jobs for the Future
This online source provides support to understanding what student-centered assessment looks like in the classroom, how it can be implemented, as well as how students can benefit from this approach.Student-Centered Assessment Resources Assessment Jobs for the Future
This piece provides resources to student-centered assessment.The Why, What, Where, and How of Deeper Learning in American Secondary Schools Assessment Deeper Learning 101 Equity Research Jobs for the Future
This report aims to define deeper learning at the high school level as well as in the historical context of school reform.Accountability and the Federal Role: A Third Way on ESEA Assessment Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) Policy Center on Reinventing Public Education and Stanford Center for Opportunity in Education
This paper configures the different conversations two groups of scholars and experts separately had around rethinking educational accountability.Creating Systems of Assessment for Deeper Learning Assessment Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education and Education Policy Improvement Center
This report describes how systems of assessment and accountability can be designed strategically to support continuous improvement across all levels of the education enterprise.Assessing Learning Assessment Jobs for the Future
This report explores the role that student-centered approaches can play to deeper learning and prepare young people to meet the demands and engage the opportunities of the 21st century.Measuring Deeper Learning Through Cognitively Demanding Test Items: Results from the Analysis of Six National and International Exams Assessment Research RAND Corporation
This research assesses the cognitive demand of six nationally and internationally administered tests to interpret the results of the new generation of assessments being developed by SBAC and PARCC. 2014Developing Assessments of Deeper Learning: The Costs and Benefits of Using Tests that Help Students Learn Assessment Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education
This report argues the need for stronger curriculum and assessments for deeper learning techniques and analyzes the costs of these assessments in relation to their lower-quality counterparts. 2013On the Road to Assessing Deeper Learning Assessment CRESST
Investigates how two consortia’s assessment development efforts are likely to product tests that measure and support goals for deeper learning. January 2013Performance Counts: Assessment Systems That Support High-Quality Learning Assessment Policy Research Council of Chief State School Officers
This white paper describes what a student assessment system could look like if built from the principles and best practices found in current educational research and effective educational systems in the United States and high-achieving nations around the world. May 2010Getting to Higher-Quality Assessments: Evaluating Costs, Benefits, and Investment Strategies Assessment Policy Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education
In this report, the Assessment Solutions Group reviews the results of all their analyses to determine the affordability of higher-quality assessments. March 2013Criteria for High-Quality Assessment Assessment Workforce Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education
Based on the changing demands of today’s workforce advances in other nations, and original analysis, this report provides a set of criteria for high-quality student assessment. June 2013Assessing Deeper Learning Assessment Policy Alliance for Excellent Education
This policy brief shows what assessments that measure deeper learning look like, how they are used in other countries, how technology can support their development, and how they can be implemented feasibly.Estimating the Number of Students Who Were Tested on Cognitively Demanding Items Through the State Achievement Tests Assessment Planning RAND Corporation
This report estimates the percentage of U.S. elementary and secondary students assessed on deeper learning skills through statewide math and English language arts achievement tests at the beginning of Hewlett Foundation’s deeper learning initiative. November 2012-
What Does Deeper Learning Look Like? Assessment District Model Alliance for Excellent Education
In this video, meet the students and teachers of City Arts and Technology (CAT). CAT is entirely focused on supporting students so they can be successful in college, a career, and life. At the heart of the school’s approach to teaching and learning is the school’s unique deeper learning assessment system.
Innovation
Share Your Learning Deeper Learning 101 Innovation Share Your Learning Campaign
The Share Your Learning campaign is building a movement of 5 million students publicly presenting their learning by 2020. This website connects and supports teachers and school leaders who are implementing exhibitions, student led conferences and presentations of learning. It contains tool kits and resources to support educators in these practices.OpEd: The Quest for “Deeper Learning” District Model Innovation Leadership State Policy Education Week
This 2010 article documents Barbara Chow’s “quest” to get more education programs to adapt deeper learning in their schools.Soft Skills Are “Hard as a Rock” Innovation Instruction Huffington Post
Lydia Dobyns argues the merits of soft skills, such as “work ethic, collaboration, and critical thinking,” in comparison to hard skills, asserting that both are necessary for college and career readiness.Mapping the “Deeper Learning” Literature Using Cohere Innovation Partnerships Open Learning Network and University of Bristol
This slideshow evaluates Cohere as a tool for enhancing the literature review process and its potential for collaborative learning around issues of shared significance with interested partners.Deeper Learning: How Eight Innovative Public Schools Are Transforming Education in the Twenty-First Century District Model Innovation The New Press
In this book, meet teachers and students who demonstrate what deeper learning looks like in schools today. May 2014
Instruction
Video: Deeper Learning Through Project-Based Learning Instruction New Tech Network
In this video, learn how project-based learning makes learning relevant to them in this way, students, allowing them to see a purpose for mastering state-required skills and content concepts.How to Teach Us District Model Instruction Planning Professional Learning Teacher Preparation High Tech High Graduation School of Education
This course provides educators with strategies to integrate student voice into their educational process of several students from High Tech High.Educator Micro-credentials Instruction Professional Learning Teacher Preparation Digital Promise
These forty educator micro-credentials are designed to recognize educators for the skills they learn throughout their careers in order to craft powerful learning experiences for their students.Developing a System of Micro-credentials: Supporting Deeper Learning in the Classroom Deeper Learning 101 Instruction Leadership Professional Learning Teacher Preparation Digital Promise
This system of micro-credentials provides professional educators with a new way to identify competencies they are developing and gain recognition for the skills they learn throughout their careers.Deeper Learning MOOC Instruction Professional Learning Teacher Preparation High Tech High
This free, flexible, nine-week massive open online course (MOOC) allows K–16 educators to learn about how deeper learning can be put into practice.Learning That Lasts: Challenging, Engaging, and Empowering Students with Deeper Instruction Instruction Professional Learning Teacher Preparation Wiley
Written by Ron Berger, Libby Woodfin, Anne Vilen, Jal Mehta, this book serves as an instructional guide for educators seeking to reform their classroom practices to expand deeper learning opportunities for their students.Deeper Learning Planning Guide Instruction Professional Learning Teacher Preparation Monica Martinez
Deeper Learning Micro-credentials Instruction Professional Learning Teacher Preparation Digital Promise
Debating Real Scientific Questions Fosters Deeper Learning Innovation Instruction Policy Education Week
In this blog post, Hillary Mills, academic dean and instructional coach at Metropolitan Expeditionary Learning School (NY), highlights the impact of deeper learning on student inquiry in class.
Equity
The Implications of Deeper Learning for Adolescent Immigrants and English Language Learners Assessment Equity Leadership Jobs for the future
This report argues that students who are immigrants and/or “English language learners” (ELLs) often exhibit strengths that monolingual, non-immigrant children may not have, and that policymakers should view as important assets for individual learners and their communities.Equal Opportunity for Deeper Learning Equity Innovation Instruction Teacher Preparation Jobs for the future
This report addresses the issue of equity in a crucial dimension: teaching and learning.Deeper Learning Has a Race Problem Equity Education Week
Jal Mehta, education professor at Harvard University, explores the lack of access to deeper learning opportunities for underserved students.Can “Deeper Learning” Close the Achievement Gap? Equity Innovation Policy Research PBS
PBS conducts its own research hoping to discover if deeper learning methods have the capacity to alleviate the achievement gap.Student-Centered Schools: Closing the Opportunity Gap District Model Equity Research Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education
This series of case studies focuses on four schools in California using student-centered practices through either the Linked Learning or Envision Schools model. January 2014
Workforce
Building Competencies for Careers Deeper Learning 101 Workforce Center on Education Policy
This report uses information from the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Information Network (O*NET) to better understand the value of deeper learning competencies in the labor market.Building Competencies for Careers: Preparing Students for Twenty-First-Century Jobs Research Workforce Alliance for Excellent Education
This webinar, cohosted by the Alliance for Excellent Education, Center on Education Policy (CEP), and Council for a Strong America, features new research report from CEP on the most valuable skills and competencies required for more than 300 occupations nationwide.Work-Based Learning in Linked Learning: Definitions, Outcomes, and Quality Criteria Workforce California Center for College and Career (ConnectEd)
This document strives to (1) clarify for teachers, partners, and others implementing Linked Learning the definition of high-quality, outcomes-driven, work-based learning, and (2) increase alignment among Linked Learning partners and technical assistant providers so that support for Linked Learning practitioners around work-based learning is more coherent, coordinated, and effective. November 2012
Leadership
Preparing Leaders for Deeper Learning Leadership Planning Getting Smart and Digital Promise
This paper asserts the need for programs that prepare and develop school and district leaders who will create and sustain deeper learning environments. May 2015Deeper Professional Learning Leadership Professional Learning Teacher Preparation K12 Open Ed
A perspective on designing deeper professional learning experience for teachers.Deeper Learning and e-Learning: A Review of Promising Programs and Emerging Technologies in the Field of Online Teacher Professional Development Leadership Professional Learning Teacher Preparation Hewlett Foundation Library
A review of promising programs and emerging technologies in online teacher professional development.Deeper Leading District Model Leadership Getting Smart
In this article, Jim May, school development coach with the New Tech Network, talks about deeper learning and why it is needed in schools.Professional Learning Packs Leadership Planning Professional Learning Teacher Preparation EL Education
Professional Learning Packs are collections of materials designed for self-study, small group professional development, or large group professional development.Redefining Student Achievement Leadership Professional Learning Teacher Preparation EL Education
EL Education is a leading K–12 non-profit organization committed to creating classrooms where teachers can fulfill their highest aspirations and where students can achieve more than they think possible. Its innovative curriculum, teacher-created resources, and model of professional coaching and support are anchored by a vision of student success that joins academic achievement, character, and high-quality work.