NPR on Social and Emotional Skills: Everybody Loves them, But We Still Can’t Define Them
The language around building non-cognitive, non-academic skills in students—what we at Rodel call social and emotional learning—continues to be under debate, according to NPR columnist Anya Kamenetz in her recent article, “Social and Emotional Skills: Everybody Loves them, But Still Can’t Define Them.”
Kamenetz lists almost...
Resilience Film Screening: Recap
Last week, about 100 people gathered in Theatre N for a screening of the film “Resilience: The Biology of Stress and the Science of Hope” and panel discussion among local experts. If you weren’t one of the lucky 100, here’s a summary of the event, themes from the conversation, and ways to get involved.
Why Resilience?
“Resilience”...
Teaching in a Competency-Based Education Environment
July 2017
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Teaching in a Competency-Based Education Environment
By Katie Varatta, Network Manager for KnowledgeWorks
When I describe competency-based education to friends and family—students moving through education based on...
Funding is Fundamental to Progress
With the state’s budget situation casting a cloud of uncertainty in education (and beyond), the time seems right to take a look at education funding through the lens of something that is more than certain—that student needs have changed drastically since our school funding formula was developed in the 1940s.
We often...