2025
Authors detail and analyze how they support students’ or educators’ deeper learning outcomes
with practices, structures, and scaffolds.
Vol. 4 Introduction
Classroom Culture
Rabina Baksh-Bissessar
Balance of freedom and adherence to requirements maximizes students’ engagement.
From Comments to Conversations: Scaffolding Feedback
Breana Bayraktar
Undergraduate and graduate students analyze and apply instructor feedback.
College Project-Based Learning: A Real World Challenge Sparks Self-Agency and Engagement
Tove Rasmussen
By giving students an opportunity to apply principles to real company situations, students acquired knowledge and skills; and were excited to see companies respond to their work.
Teaching Power Not Just Pain in United States Black History
Martin P. Smith
As they discover the power of the Children’s March, students use historiography to analyze why some Black history events are known and some are unknown.
Structured Reflections
Donna Vinton
Students receive reaction categories that scaffold their reflections.
Multi-Pronged Approach to Learning: Clearing Up Organic Chemistry Confusion
Ivan A. Shibley Jr.
David J. Aurentz
A combination of metaphors, interactive diagrams, online open book quizzes, and unannounced in-class quizzes promotes students’ content understanding and students’ metacognition.
Accommodations Matrix: An Organizational Tool for Inclusive Education
Shaundria L. Gibson
Having all students’ required supports, in one document, facilitated the author’s efficiently planning and implementing lessons, and collaborating with colleagues.
Book Review
Mindset for Success: The Powerful Partnership of Problem-Based Learning & PLC at Work by
Terry Goodin and Heather Dillard
Ann H. Aust
With Problem-Based Learning (PBL), Professional Learning Communities (PLC) are most effective.
Volume Five Call for Papers
Deeper Learning Journal of Practice (DLJP) is a peer-reviewed, annual, online journal. Authors detail and analyze how they implement practices that forward deeper learning. DLJP builds bridges between practice and research and among PreK-12 education, college/university education, and adult education. DLJP’s goal is to increase deeper learning for all.
DLJP is published by For Deeper Learning, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. For Deeper Learning’s goal is to to increase deeper learning for students at all levels and deeper professional learning for educators. In addition to Deeper Learning Journal of Practice, For Deeper Learning provides blog posts on deeper learning topics, guest blog posts, workshops on educators’ capacity-building peer coaching and inquiry learning with problem-based learning/project-based learning, and other deeper learning workshops, consulting, and resources.
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