EdSource · The John Fensterwald forecast: What’s coming for California schools in 2026 The John Fensterwald forecast: What’s coming for California schools in 2026 January 8, 2026 - It's time for John ...

For students who have fallen years behind in math and reading, recovering that lost academic ground is a marathon, not a sprint. But it doesn’t hurt to pick up the pace. A new study of more than 5 ...

Self-assessments encourage students to reflect on their skills, knowledge, learning goals, and progress in a course. These practices can range from quick, low-stakes check-ins on lecture content to in ...

Essential Education was developed around four undergraduate student learning goals and 12 performance criteria. These performance criteria are the Essential Abilities. By design, these abilities are ...

Helping students progress towards their educational goals involves communicating how far they have come and how far they have yet to go. This is the role of assessment. Designing meaningful assessment ...

In the last 30 years, a series of innovative findings in neuroscience, metacognition, and learning have inexorably changed how we think about educating students. The notions that learning is ...

One theory contrasts implicit and explicit motivation. When we are implicitly motivated, we learn because we find the subject fascinating, because we want to achieve mastery of the subject or because ...

Ryan Hetchler is an experienced teacher, school administrator and district leader in private and public K–12 schools. He is the subject matter expert of curriculum and instruction at GoGuardian, where ...

It goes without saying that improving student learning and helping students achieve their learning goals have always been priorities for classroom teachers and educators. Today, pandemic-related ...

The student learning goals and objectives of the Biology degree adheres closely to those recommended in Vision and Change: A Call to Action supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the ...