FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEARLINGTON, MA, November 16, 2012—NISCE is proud to announce that Taylor Mali will be giving one of the two keynote presentations at INSPIRE 2013, its April 2013 conference on student-centered education.Taylor Mali is one of the best known poets to have emerged from the poetry slam movement and a vocal advocate of teachers. He spent nine years in middle-school classrooms, teaching everything from English and history to math and SAT test preparation. He has performed and … [Read more...]
Films From The New Learning Institute
The New Learning Institute films look specifically at ways in which school leaders and educators are testing and proving project-based models for a new, student-centered model of learning.This collection—which includes profiles of school innovators David "T.C." Ellis, Jean Johnson, and Larry Rosenstock, as well as a profile of school architect Randall Fielding—explores collaborative, creative, multi-disciplinary approaches to engaging students. Each leader has developed personalized, … [Read more...]
Lumina Foundation’s James L. Applegate On Why Education Has To Be Student-Centered
James L. Applegate, the Vice President for Program Development at the Lumina Foundation, discusses the development of the Foundation’s funding programs supporting achievement of Lumina’s “Big Goal” of dramatically increase educational attainment in the US, especially for low-income, first-generation, minority and adult students.That work includes strategic implementation of effective practices and policies supporting increases in the number of prepared students entering higher education, the … [Read more...]
