Vanderbilt SEED

Vanderbilt SEED Vanderbilt Students Engaging in Education Dialogue (SEED) facilitates awareness and discussion of national educational issues.

SEED is a student-run Vanderbilt organization. We aim to empower students as stakeholders in the education system by starting critical conversations on campus and throughout the Nashville community. In order to raise awareness about key topics in the education reform movement, we host events, such as dinner discussions, seminars, and school visits. We want to engage fellow students with issues in

education policy and encourage them to take on the challenge of breaking down this complex and overwhelming topic. We seek to gain awareness in a non-partisan manner so we can become more informed voters, students, volunteers, advocates, and potential parents. Email [email protected] or [email protected] for more information.

04/14/2017
04/07/2017

Hate is on the rise in U.S. schools. For students and educators, that means finding new ways to promote tolerance and inclusion.

04/03/2017

Check out the awesome opportunities for student-directed learning at this school's Thinkering Studio!

Did you see Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos's most recent statement on school choice? Read her full comments at the l...
03/30/2017

Did you see Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos's most recent statement on school choice? Read her full comments at the link below.

https://goo.gl/DKQk44

Read the speech yourself.

Hunger when children are young can have painful effects for their academic success down the road.https://goo.gl/jg57TZ
03/28/2017

Hunger when children are young can have painful effects for their academic success down the road.

https://goo.gl/jg57TZ

When infants and young kids grow up in homes without enough to eat, they're more likely to perform poorly in kindergarten, a study shows. The younger they experienced hunger, the stronger the effect.

Does adding devices to classrooms change how learning happens? "Instead of filling an inbox on the teacher’s desk with p...
03/27/2017

Does adding devices to classrooms change how learning happens?

"Instead of filling an inbox on the teacher’s desk with packets and worksheets, students now completed the exact same procedures online. Rather than write homework assignments on the board, teachers posted them to the students’ digital news feeds. While blended learning brings with it the promise of innovation, there is the peril that it will perpetuate and replicate existing practices with newer, more expensive tools."

https://www.edutopia.org/article/are-we-innovating-or-just-digitizing-traditional-teaching-beth-holland

Blended learning has the potential to transform the way teachers teach and students learn—if we take advantage of all that it offers

"We wanted to document this gap between public perception and good practice," he told NPR Ed. "In our paper we call it t...
03/23/2017

"We wanted to document this gap between public perception and good practice," he told NPR Ed. "In our paper we call it the, 'Been there, done that' problem. People went to school, so they have a feeling they know what good teaching looks like." But in fact, public opinion diverges from reality.

How do your beliefs about learning compare to what research has found?

http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2017/03/22/520843457/you-probably-believe-some-learning-myths-take-our-quiz-to-find-out

A new survey shows widespread misconceptions and unfounded confidence about learning.

When we talk about improving schools, we too often forget about the importance of great principals. Check out this op-ed...
03/20/2017

When we talk about improving schools, we too often forget about the importance of great principals.

Check out this op-ed from the NY Times on how principals can be a key to better schools.
https://goo.gl/IPFx7F

Education reform often skips over one of the best solutions for helping students. Chicago shows how it can be done.

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