A gender perspective on human rights education

whitePaper | March 13, 2020

An online learning plan covers the teaching strategies, communication rules, devices, solutions, and policies supporting online or blended learning in the school community. Keep the plan as simple as possible, but make the expectations clear for learners, teachers and guardians as to how to learn and teach online. An IB World School has agreed to share their online learning plan as an example of what to consider when creating one. This plan is updated regularly, as is common for schools using online learning under emergency circumstances.

whitePaper | June 15, 2022

The way we learn is a process that evolved over millions of years. However, a lot of mechanisms of learning have remained a mystery to us -- until as recently as a few decades ago. Researchers around the world have striven to unlock these answers about human cognition as a way to know ourselves better but perhaps more importantly about how learners are shaped by the environment and their interactions with it.

whitePaper | September 15, 2022

To transform students into skilled readers, schools must understand the science of reading and align their literacy instruction to it. The science of reading is a cumulation of research in the fields of education, psychology, linguistics, and neuroscience. This paves the way for what students need to learn a

whitePaper | April 16, 2020

As an educator or as the parent of a student with a disability, you may hear a lot of new terms being thrown around during the COVID-19 crisis. Education is notorious for having a lot of terms of art (what’s often called “eduspeak”). Here are definitions of some of those terms and their implications for students with disabilities.

whitePaper | July 29, 2022

Hundreds of U.S. school districts have established virtual schools in the 2021 academic year alone. Online schools in Minnesota have doubled in the last year. In Atlanta, the newly created Fulton Academy of Virtual Excellence will enroll about 1,000 students this fall. And in Anchorage, about 2,000 students are expected to attend the school district’s year-old virtual school.2

whitePaper | December 28, 2021

I’m pleased to share this special McREL research report on student engagement, which is unique in several ways: It was researched and written by students supported by McREL researchers, and it is an artifact of a unique moment in modern history, the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020.