Deeper Learning for Students with Disabilities
Deeper Learning for Students with Disabilities More than 6 million students with disabilities attend elementary and secondary schools across the United States. With the proper supports, these students can meet goals described by deeper learning…
Equal Opportunity for Deeper Learning
Equal Opportunity for Deeper Learning This report addresses the issue of equity in a crucial dimension: teaching and learning. To ensure equity in access to deeper learning, practices and policies must address the context for…
The Implications of Deeper Learning for Adolescent Immigrants and English Language Learners
The Implications of Deeper Learning for Adolescent Immigrants and English Language Learners 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…
Deeper Teaching
Deeper Teaching What does it look like to teach to deeper learning competencies? What can one do to give students opportunities to understand the academic content and identify themselves as strong learners? Students at the…
The Why, What, Where, and How of Deeper Learning in American Secondary Schools
The Why, What, Where, and How of Deeper Learning in American Secondary Schools The movement to promote deeper learning is borne out of the understanding that there is no going back to the days of…
Redesigning Assessment Systems: Emerging Lessons from Three States
Virginia, California, and Texas are activating promising ideas, practices, and policies with an emphasis on developing new systems of assessment that focus on local participation in design and development. Taken together, these states' efforts offer…
Measuring Deeper Learning: New Directions in Formative Assessment
This paper synthesizes recent research on formative assessment to elucidate its core components, then examines some new approaches currently being tried in schools. It considers the evidence for them, as well as the questions and…
Five Elements for Assessment Design and Use to Support Student Autonomy
This brief presents research showing that, when the concepts of student autonomy and assessments' role in that development are explored, implemented, and measured, students will become more competent and confident learners ready to handle challenges…
Effective Schools for Deeper Learning: An Exploratory Study
Effective Schools for Deeper Learning: An Exploratory Study Adolescents need far more than just academic content knowledge and skills to be college and career ready. They need to develop the full range of “deeper learning”…