March 22, 2022

Graduate profiles help districts prepare students for college and careers

California school districts are developing "graduate profiles" that help focus teaching and learning on ensuring students can think critically and creatively, collaborate with others, tackle real problems and contribute to society.

Roman Stearns and Mary Perry

March 18, 2022

California's new math framework offers path to greater excellence and equity

California's new math framework builds on the practices of countries with the best outcomes for teaching math and provides guidance on how to develop students’ belief in their own ability to learn.

Phil Daro

November 1, 2021

Now is the time for learner-centered, whole-child education

We must not allow our desire to return to “normal” and our conditioning to the status quo to pull us back to what was familiar before the pandemic.

Devin Vodicka, Kim Smith, Jen Holleran, and Jean-Claude Brizard

July 21, 2021

Tired of the same old student assessments? This fund wants to help

The Advanced Education Research & Development Fund is calling for project proposals on how assessment can be done better.

Sydney Johnson

June 29, 2021

Reading gain in the era of learning loss

Students can make impressive gains in reading even under difficult circumstances if guided and encouraged to think for themselves.

Mark Gozonsky

March 15, 2021

Distance learning changed California education. What’s here to stay?

Teachers pushed through difficult days to find solutions that kept kids learning during an upended school year. Some changes may stick.

Sydney Johnson

February 19, 2021

California students watch and learn through hands-on projects as Mars rover lands

Teachers have crafted weeks and even months-long lessons culminating with the historic Mars rover landing on Feb. 18.

Sydney Johnson

February 9, 2021

California teachers grapple with grading nearly a year after initial school closures

Many districts are seeing surges in Fs and Ds during distance learning, prompting a revision of expectations and policies around grades.

Sydney Johnson

December 11, 2020

How one California school district is moving forward with math in the pandemic

Math learning experts are pushing for grade-level content over remediation during the pandemic.

Sydney Johnson

October 29, 2020

High school teachers in California wary of taking on contentious Biden-Trump election

Distance learning poses additional challenges for teachers willing to help students examine a divisive election filled with misinformation.

John Fensterwald

June 30, 2020

Students are an untapped resource in navigating the pandemic

Students want to help solve real-world challenges, the pandemic presents an opportunity to empower them.

Mariana Aguilar

September 16, 2019

California’s widely criticized ethnic studies plan to be revised

Critics said the original proposal was politically biased and omitted the American experiences of some ethnic and religious groups.

Diana Lambert

June 5, 2019

There’s value but also limitations to students’ grading their own interpersonal skills, study finds

California districts should use insights from surveys of students' habits of mind but not rate schools by the results, a PACE research project concludes.

John Fensterwald

March 21, 2018

'Deeper learning' aimed to expand as Stanford researchers join California charter group

The joining of forces will give Envision Learning Partners greater research heft behind its consulting work, which already includes nearly 500 charter and district-run schools across the country.

Mikhail Zinshteyn

February 15, 2018

More than a dozen California schools have received grants that foster innovative programs

More than a dozen schools in California have received Next Generation Learning Challenge Grants, including nine in Oakland.

Theresa Harrington