When the curriculum was engaging – in this case, involving hands-on, interactive learning activities at the junior high school level – students who weren’t graded at all did just as well on a proficiency exam as those who were.
Moeller and Reschke (1993)

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Imagine a School: Students Describe What Schools Would Look Like If We Got It Right

Imagine a School was a dramatic performance created by high school students from Halifax, Toronto and Vancouver that opened CEA’s symposium “Getting it Right for Adolescent Learners” in 2006. Find out what adolescents are saying about their experiences in high schools and what schools would look like if we “got it right”.

Read more about/order the DVD of this student performance, or read an article by Kathy Gould Lundy exploring the creative process of the actors and teachers involved in the project

Tell Them From Me: Canadian Students Speak About Their Schools

Tell Them From Me is an assessment system that measures a wide variety of indicators of student engagement and wellness, and classroom and school climate that are known to affect learning outcomes. The anonymous survey covers areas including: perceptions of testing, involvement in sports teams and clubs, attendance, hours spent watching TV, a sense of belonging, post-graduation goals, bullying, self esteem, student anxiety and depression.

Getting It Right for Adolescent Learners: A Call to Action

Inspired by events and conversations at their 2006 symposium, the Canadian Education Association developed this site to create a meeting place for Canadians interested in exploring how we can get it right for adolescent learners. The site highlights principles that represent what we know about how best to meet the academic, social and emotional needs of adolescents in our schools and makes recommendations for action by educators, schools, government and education associations.

Youth Speak: Life as Student in the 21st Century

Mon, 01/07/2008 - 13:30 -- admin

This short video summarizes some of the most important characteristics of students today – how they learn, what they need to learn, their goals, hopes, dreams, what their lives will be like, and what kinds of changes they will experience in their lifetime. Created by Michael Wesch in collaboration with 200 students at Kansas State University.
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