PowerMyLearning, a national nonprofit, has launched the School Checkup — a free, four-minute online assessment tool that provides a comprehensive analysis of how well schools are supporting the trio of student-teacher-family relationships.
The School Checkup helps school leaders mitigate against the COVID-19 slide and advance educational equity by assessing and improving the strength of learning relationships between students, teachers, and families. Upon completion, participants receive personalized insights and actionable strategies for activating a powerful student-teacher-family learning dynamic.
“At PowerMyLearning, our key insight is that students succeed when they have strong learning relationships with both their teachers and their families. Picture…
NEW YORK, October 9, 2018 — PowerMyLearning, a national education nonprofit, is launching an exciting partnership with DonorsChoose.org whereby teachers can secure exclusive access to Family Playlists™, a groundbreaking research-based approach to engaging families in learning. Thanks to generous support from the Morgridge Family Foundation, teachers can participate in the PowerMyLearning Family Engagement Innovators Program, a new professional development opportunity focused on Family Playlists, for a fraction of the total cost.
Participating teachers will learn how to strengthen the “triangle” of learning relationships between students, families, and teachers using Family Playlists. As reported in The New York Times, Family Playlists…
By Elisabeth Stock, CEO & Co-Founder, PowerMyLearning New York City
“Just call it what it is!”
Jaime Casap, the Education Evangelist at Google, does not beat around the bush, especially when talking about his personal experience growing up in poverty and how that has shaped the lens through which he sees the world. Confronting uncomfortable truths is often a catalyst for change, and Jaime is an expert when it comes to “calling it what it is.” We are thrilled to honor Jaime as our Visionary of Year at the 2018 Innovative Learning Awards later this month.
I recently sat down…
NEW YORK, May 11, 2018 — PowerMyLearning, a national nonprofit, announced that Family Playlists™ are a 2018 SIIA CODiE Award finalist in the Best Emerging Instructional Technology Solution category. Finalists represent applications, products and services from developers of educational software, digital content, online learning services and related technologies across the PreK-20 sector.
Family Playlists transform the learning relationships between students, families, and teachers and provide a groundbreaking way to drive student mastery and social-emotional learning. …
PowerMyLearning, a national education nonprofit, launched Family Playlists™ — a groundbreaking innovation for grades 3–8 that enables families and teachers to partner more effectively to support student learning. The research-based technology works by solving common barriers that limit family engagement, including: the language barrier, the family content-knowledge barrier, and the home technology barrier.
After a successful pilot program at South Bronx Preparatory, a district middle school located in a high-poverty neighborhood in New York City, Family Playlists are now exclusively available on the organization’s new subscription-based platform for schools and districts, PowerMyLearning Connect: School Edition.
Research shows that family engagement…
By Elisabeth Stock, CEO & Co-Founder, PowerMyLearning
For this month’s article, I invite you to learn about Jaylen, a sixth-grade student from South Bronx Preparatory School. Earlier this month we honored Jaylen as the 2017 Student of the Year at PowerMyLearning’s Innovative Learning Awards.
During the ceremony, Jaylen presented his mother, Deshia, and math teacher, Ms. Arelys Arenas, with the awards for the Parent of the Year and Teacher of the Year. Jaylen explained how his mother and teacher teamed up to become effective learning partners and inspired him to work harder, bring his grades up, and develop ownership of…
By Elisabeth Stock, CEO & Co-Founder, PowerMyLearning
Envision a classroom full of second-grade students who are at the tail end of a lesson. These students are really having fun. The reason why may shock you: they are completing a formative assessment about what they learned.
This is the picture in Ryan Feeney’s second grade classroom at PS 279, one of our partner schools located in Brooklyn… but it wasn’t always this way. For this month’s column, I am picking up the series about our instructional framework and focusing on the Data-Driven Instruction domain.
Many experts in the education sphere already…
Have you ever had a sudden insight, or a “Eureka!” moment? One of those times when you’re working on a difficult problem and, just before you give up, a light bulb goes off in your head and you suddenly know the answer? I love when those moments happen to me and so I recently re-read a 2008 New Yorker article about the science behind them. Surprisingly, diving back into this article after many years was an uncomfortable experience, since solving problems through a sudden insight feels so different from the way we, as educators, expect students to solve problems today.
The…
By: Elisabeth Stock, CEO & Co-Founder, PowerMyLearning
The Trump administration has proposed $2.4 billion in cuts to one of the most important levers for improving the quality of education in the U.S.: professional development. The reason? “Funding is poorly targeted and supports practices that are not evidence-based.” (Politico)
Although professional development (PD) has often been portrayed as ineffective, there is increasing evidence that certain types of PD do result in improvements in teacher practice. At PowerMyLearning, PD is one of the key levers we use to help partner schools in high-poverty communities realize the power of the Personalized Learning Triangle…
When Mr. Freeman, a fourth grade teacher at Du Bois Integrity, began his first year of teaching last year, he experienced two challenges that are common to first-year teachers. Both these challenges related directly to his interest in making his classroom environment more conducive to personalized learning: (1) He needed to determine how to make the physical space work better: “My classroom set-up encouraged me to talk too much and my instruction was not student-driven”; and (2) He needed to figure out how to create clear and consistent routines: “I was very frantic. …
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