
Table of Contents | Feb 2010: Social & Emotional Learning
Up Front
It's All About Community
Among the many highlights of our year were launching Edutopia's online community and making our presence known on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube.
Feedback: The YES Prep Story Inspires
Educators are paying attention to the charter school's successful strategies.
Dispatches: Community-Based Assessment Makes the Grade
In scoring student performance, top marks go to teachers rather than the testing industry.
Sage Advice: Innovation in Education
What are your predictions for educational innovations in 2010 and the coming decade?
Features
Louisville's CARE for Kids Starts with the Heart
How do you boost achievement, reduce racial and economic performance gaps, and nurture happier, healthier, more confident students?
Teachers Shake Up Shakespeare with Digital Media
Rap and film bring the Bard's characters to life.
Teachers and Community Members Practice TLC with PLCs
Create a culture of collaboration and constant improvement with professional learning communities.
How to Create a Professional Learning Community
It takes careful planning to form a useful and functional PLC, but once the foundation is built, the benefits will soon be evident.
How to Break Down Barriers to Starting PLCs
Here are the five most common obstacles to starting professional learning communities -- and how to address them.
Students Explore Storytelling with a Real-Life Adventurer
Bounding from far-flung expeditions to public school classrooms, Peter Lourie shows students how to write with verve and detail.
How to Build Your Own Multimedia Adventure
Add music and images to your classroom writing exercise, and see how exposure to virtual adventures spurs students' imagination.
A Teacher's Guide to Generation X Parents
How to work with well-meaning but demanding moms and dads.
Mixed Media
Mixed Media: The Edutopia Guide to the Educational and the Entertaining
What's on our radar -- everything from books to DVDs to software.
Pop Quiz: Michael Chabon
Head of Class
Design Thinking: Creative Ways to Solve Problems
Stanford University's k12 Laboratory applies the design process to teaching.
Children Create the Playground of Their Dreams
Seattle students design commanding castles and slithery slides, then watch their sketches come alive.
Guided Homework Help Goes Online
The New York Public Library's homework program pioneers new ways to connect students with teachers after class is dismissed.
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