Yearly Archives: 2020

Nominations are Now Open for the Lawrence W. O’Toole Teacher Leadership Awards!

Posted by Chiara Wegener   We all know that teachers are amazing people — after all, they are the ones shaping the minds of our future world leaders! At the Nellie Mae Education Foundation, we’ve had the chance to see the impact of many individual educators, but have also seen the powerful force of teachers…

Measuring High Quality, Student-Centered Learning

Posted by Nina Culbertson   At the Nellie Mae Education Foundation, we support schools and communities that are working to reshape education to be more student-centered — where learning is personalized, competency-based, happens anytime, anywhere, and where students take ownership over their own learning. But what does high-quality, rigorous student-centered learning actually look like in practice?…