How and why educators can teach the whole child through social-emotional...
We need to educate the whole child, by teaching skills for an effective life, according to educator Trish Shaffer.
Social-emotional skills, like awareness of self...
Should student voice inform professional development?
Can educators design more meaningful professional development if they allow student voice to drive the conversation? According to professional development facilitator Michelle Blanchet, the...
Student Voice Summit brought together over 100 students and educators
Incorporating student voice has been on the radar of many New Hampshire schools over the past few years in an effort to improve school culture and...
Massachusetts education advocate looks to NH as a model for meaningful...
Education advocate Lisa Guisbond used New Hampshire's performance assessment model, PACE, when advocating for more meaningful measures of student and school progress. From the...
Manchester schools highlight innovations in learning to national commission of state...
The National Conference of State Legislatures' Student-Centered Learning Commission visited several Manchester schools to observe innovations in learning first hand, like competency-based education, online...
Are we designing learning experiences that are aligned with how the...
When we think of school, many of us picture a classroom with desks, a blackboard, and a teacher at the front of the room....
Plymouth State University partners with GLSEN to offer anti-bullying training to...
The Holmes Center for School Partnerships and Educator Preparation at Plymouth State University is partnering with the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN)...
RHNH Exec. Dir., Evelyn Aissa, speaks on skills that matter at...
Reaching Higher NH’s Executive Director, Evelyn Aissa, spoke at the seventh Annual Tom Tom Founders Festival last Thursday. The Festival, attended by over 25,000...
Starting the school year off by focusing on school culture
In a recent post, Michael Niehoff, an educator, and writer for Getting Smart, shares what he learned by starting the school year off not...
On NAEP scores, “proficient” does not mean performing at grade level
The recently released NAEP scores, which measure student performance in terms like "basic," "proficient," and "advanced," do not indicate whether or not students are...
